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…

I love reading Samantha Kane’s tweets because you get so much more than the usual rambling on about people pirating the author’s work or the implied “how important money is to the author” because they are so done wrong by the big bad online world blah blah blah. If you have not figured it out [...]

From: Bill In Exile From: Ian Welsh ~ Public opinion is irrelevant Most countries in the developed world do not have functioning democracies in any meaningful sense. You can vote for party A, B, or C, but they will all do substantially the same things, differing only in how fast they do them and the [...]