Well, the dentist wasn’t horribly painful yesterday, except to my wallet. I’m done until after Christmas, though, so that’s a good thing. Now I just have to get through the rest of this week, which, thanks to some great foresight on my part, means just today and tomorrow. Maybe I can call in sick.
Mike Pence wants me to contribute to his campaign for Governor. I hope he didn’t pay too much for that e-mail address list.
On the bright side, gmail correctly identified it as spam.
Well the second day of vacation, I managed to get some yardwork done, fix the downstairs toilet and shampoo the carpets. Oh what an age we live in.
With that kind of vacation going back to work should seem easy.
Just over a month ago, Esquire Magazine’s Mark Warren published an item on the magazine’s Politics blog titled, “BREAKING: Jerome Corsi’s Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!” Warren’s piece was a subtle, yet easily detectable fake item that very specifically satirized the spirit of Corsi’s Where’s The Birth Certificate?, in that, if Corsi could get away with selling obvious lies to people too dumb to know any better, why couldn’t Esquire?
The whole matter might have remained just a blip in the universe of political satire, but it so aggrieved Corsi and WorldNetDaily CEO Joseph Farah, that they intimated that they would consider legal action against Esquire for making them the butt of a joke. And now that threat has been delivered upon: the pair have filed suit against the magazine, Warren, and Esquire’s parent company, Hearst Corp. Forbes blogger Jeff Bercovici has all the gory details (“the full amount sought totals more than $285 million”) and a copy of the suit itself.
According to Bercovici, Farah and Corsi claim that “the article succeeded…in interfering with their ability to sell books through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Tower and other retailers. The plaintiffs also say that Warren’s parody exposed them to ‘extreme ridicule in the community where they reside and where their works are viewed and read.’â€
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/esquire-sued-by-birthers-_n_887238.html
Tower?! Not sure they are a player anymore. Borders maybe?