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The Philibuster: Kickstarter’s crowd-sourced funding is an arts crap shoot


By: Phil Sweeney

Paying one’s own way, as comedian Daniel Tosh’s recent “Daniel’s Kickstarter” routine reminds us, is a self-sabotaging Ponzi scheme.

“Like a lot of you,” he deadpans with Sarah McLachlan’s signature gut-wrenching somberness, “my goal in life is to …