WTFs:
We can’t repeal DADT because Osama bin Laden might be offended?
Another Fox Congressman wants to privatize SS and Medicare (because that’s worked so well for healthcare)
Paying for ignorant behavior to promote greater ignorance in general
Snow jobs
Allen Stanford gave over $1.2 million to the Dems and Republicans, and neither party plans to give any of it back to Stanford’s victims
It’s probably for the best that most teabaggers aren’t married to shrinks
Mosque vandalized after Islamville report (that would, of course, be on the other side of the tracks from Jesusberg and down the road a ways from Jew Town)
Speaking of Jews….
Like Broder and Klein, Marc Ambinder also published a puff piece on Palin today just as new polls show she’s all but reviled by most Americans
Atlas Juggs tells Ron Reagan Jr. that she knows what his father thought better than Ron Jr. does (yes, it was an argument about whether Reagan would have loved Sarah Palin)
CBS refuses to run pro-marijuana ad
Still cheering for secession
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More on ebooks:
The fundamental question is: Who gets to decide? Consumers will vote with their clicks and pocketbooks and if the e-book format becomes moribund — at a time when e-book prices are higher than many think are defensible, given that there are virtually no production or delivery costs in the traditional sense — we’ll never know what went wrong.
On the other hand, pricing e-books closer to the actual production cost could damage the book publishing ecosystem, and that would be tragic beyond words….
I see. Advances in production technology have wiped out almost all non-stoop labor farm jobs, many factory jobs and countless skilled trades jobs (watch a carpenter with a nail gun sometime if you don’t understand how technology impacts even skill labor). Everyone has had their lunch eaten by technology, but the publishing industry should be spared?
Fairly priced ebooks will not eliminate the printed book. There will always be collectors and fetishists who will want books printed on dead tree matter. The technology already exists to easily do limited press runs so there’s almost no chance of printed books ever vanishing altogether unless the demand vanishes altogether.
The biggest problem facing out-of-print books is copyright, not access to a printing press.
Stop coddling what is quickly becoming little more than the dead tree edition of the RIAA. Their jobs are toast, and why shouldn’t they be?
Do you have a book you’ve written you’d like to have published? If an ebook is OK with you, I can format that book in a matter of minutes. Needs editing? I can do that too, but it will take a little longer.
Now, if your book sucks, yeah, it would cost a lot more in terms of time and money to fix it, but if your book really does suck, who cares?
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I want to be part of Google’s super high-speed internet soooo bad. I want bandwidth that grabs hold of stuck ad servers, shakes the em dashes out of them, and slams a fully loaded webpage onto my browser without having to refresh the page half a dozen times.
Google is the best thing to happen to the internet since Mozilla. I used to use other search engines. Now I don’t even care who the other survivors are.
Google is a national resource, a cyber treasure, and the wave of the future. Because some day we will get past the greed-grubbing dik diks of Wall Street and we will have that Star Trek future where money is irrelevant and Earthers compete to see who can make the biggest contribution to the betterment of whatever.
But probably not in my lifetime or yours, greedy assholes being what they are.
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Etcs:
Jonathan Turley calls for a Constitutional Convention
Mick’s got a great idea: let people use food stamps to buy everything! (1 out of every 8 Americans is already on food stamps, btw)
Evan Bayh to get punched in the face every day until November 2 for being a liberal pussy (I made a note to send a letter to Dan Coats letting him know he’s wrong about Bayh and then I set the reminder alert for Nov. 3)
Iraq to whoremongers: you’ve got seven days to leave the country
Blanche Lincoln’s vote against Craig Becker just earned her a primary opponent (and not one picked by the Netroots which means he might actually beat her and still win the general election)
Everyone’s still focused on the jobless, but it’s new grads are most boned in this most boned of all boned worlds
Bob Collins’ best post ever
Birkey on the grandstanding
John Kline just got a primary challenger from Norm Coleman’s old staff (and yes, this is so not what you think — click to learn why)
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From Brian Lambert:
With Toyota losing millions of dollars and its vaunted reputational standing by the hour, Emily Gurnon of the PiPress has an interesting story about a 2006 accident on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul that killed three people waiting at a stoplight. The colliding vehicle? A 1996 Camry that exited the freeway and suddenly accelerated to nearly 90 mph. “Koua Fong Lee [the driver] testified at his trial in 2007 that he was returning home from a church event on the day of the accident. His pregnant wife, their 4-year-old daughter, his father and his brother were in the car with him. He had no criminal history and had not been drinking or on drugs. He said he was not talking on a cell phone or distracted by anything else.” The driver is serving a prison sentence.
I’d say it’s time to get that guy out of prison, but more to the point, someone should pull the transcripts of that trial just to take a looky see at what the prosecutors said that got him put away for a known car defect.
This is about more than just a guy sitting in prison. I’d like to know why he’s in prison, and what DFL gubernatorial candidate Susan Gaertner’s office did to put Koua Fong Lee away. Prosecutors don’t have to stick to you, but they do because, well, they’re fucking prosecutors, that’s why. Never held accountable unless they lose, and seemingly never ever punished for breaking the laws or bending the truth.
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