Look into my eyes and basque in the power of the loon! Lucía Etxebarría career plagiarist and all around literary whack job has announced she will quit writing… or is that copying… my translation of hysterical whackabasque might be wrong. Anyway, missy cut-n-paste with a fake accent refused to publish her new xeroxes in eBook format because [...]

From: Los Angeles Times ~ ITC to ban select HTC Android phones in Apple patent win So HTC maker of some of the best Android phones out there tried to sue Apple on 4 patents they bought from Motorola but instead got banned from US sales for getting busted on some other patent Apple held. [...]

Sebastian Marshall ~ Ikigai Now here is a fine example of what I am talking about. Sebastian Marshall who flipped off Simon and Shysters last month or so. Well this is a self pubbed eBook that the author spent all of one whole week making. He wants way too much money for it in my [...]

From: Slate ~ Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller Wait, but what about the bookstores’ owners and employees—aren’t they benefitting from your decision to buy local? Sure, but insofar as they’re doing it inefficiently (and their prices suggest they are), you could argue that they’re benefiting at the expense of someone else in the economy. After [...]

From: Truth Out ~ This Is What Revolution Looks Like From: Bill In Exile Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your [...]

From: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his New York Times blog. It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. And all you can wonder is what took people so long to figure that out? But there is more…