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Month: May, 2008

A Myth On the Wrong Continent

31 May, 2008 (20:59) | Children | No comments

I know that some imagination is allowed in mythological illustrations, but the imagination ought to take place from within the cultural area from which the story comes. Fiodorov might as well have had maple trees in the background, with a man in a plaid shirt collecting syrup for his pancakes.

Wha Happened? Inspired To Write Like McClellan

28 May, 2008 (18:32) | Politics | No comments

there’s a lot I don’t understand about why people buy things. So, maybe instead of thinking my way to success in the book industry, I should just copy Scott McClellan’s approach and hope for the best. Here are the titles of some books I’m working on as of today, in the hopes that I can have book sales like McClellan:

Remembering 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush

19 May, 2008 (10:47) | New Books, Politics, Video | No comments

This retrospective comes just as Irregular Times is releasing its new political reference guide, 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President. This new book is not an update of the 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush. It’s new material written just for this year. It also includes a much more extensive discussion of political issues that the 2004 book did. 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President is about three times as long as the 2004 reference guide, and so has had to be divided into two separate volumes: (See Volume One and Volume Two).

If the Dinosaurs Came Back They Would Help Humans Control Nature

17 May, 2008 (21:58) | Children, reviews | No comments

The dinosaurs in this children’s book are docile implements for human domination of the Earth. What would they be fed in order to fuel their gigantic appetites? Where would all the vegetable matter for the sauropods come from, what with all the dinosaur-powered construction covering nature up with asphalt? Who would provide the flesh for tyrannosaurus work horses to feast upon?

Evaluating the Strategies of Liberal Books

16 May, 2008 (17:40) | Book Business, Politics, Video | No comments

Al Franken wrote about timely events, but didn’t have much vision beyond the next year or two in his material. Satanic Panic was about events in the 1980s, but it was describing a cultural phenomenon that dates back to the Salem witch trials, and far beyond that

Eric Alterman Explains Why Liberal Is A Good Word

15 May, 2008 (23:53) | Politics, Video | No comments

Perhaps we need a travelogue for why we have become liberals, or how we have moved within the land of liberalism. For that travel, a field guide to the different varieties of liberal might be useful too.