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April 14, 2009 03:27 PM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The poor man’s budget is full of schemes.”

–Anonymous

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  1. He’s a shoo-in against most every Republican – only because they’re all so lame or have so much baggage – and now his Bennet pick seems to have been a great (i.e., very lucky) one as well.

    Ken Buck? Ryan Frazier? Are the Republicans kidding? L-O-S-E-R-S.

  2. from ABC News

    In recent weeks, a number of authors of gay- and lesbian-themed books noticed that the sales ranking — a figure prominently displayed on the each book’s sales page and the metric that determines how high a book will appear on lists of popular titles — had disappeared.



    Seymour said he spent weeks trying to get Amazon.com to explain why his book had lost its ranking and ceased to appear when the title or author was searched on the site.



    “I understand wanting to protect kids and keeping really explicit stuff off the main page,” he said, “but when people searched by the title the book wouldn’t come up. It’s not really consumer centric if you can’t find the book you’re looking for.



    Craig Seymour said his book “All I Could Bare: My Life in the Gay Strip Clubs of Washington, DC,” had lost its ranking while comparable books, including screenwriter Diablo Cody’s stripper memoir “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper,” and porn star Ron Jeremy’s autobiography “Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz” retained them.

    1. Apparently what happened is that books that are labelled “adult” – i.e. near-pornography – aren’t shown in normal searches.  They sell that stuff, but you have to look for them specifically.  This has been the case for a long time.  

      A few days ago – right before Easter weekend – someone in Amazon France (perhaps operating under a language disadvantage) labelled a whole bunch of stuff adult which wasn’t.  So it vanished from searches, “you might like” lists, rankings, etc.  Naturally the authors complained vigorously, and a whole passel of Amazon database folks had their pagers go off right before Easter dinner.

      It is supposedly fixed now, but I don’t know if the rankings are back to what they are supposed to be or are still climbing from zero.

    1. why did you choose such a blatant misnomer for your screen name? You obviously despise liberty, or you would more readily commend, rather than condemn, those who exercise it. After all, aren’t free people free to celebrate their ancestral culture, to enjoy the customs and symbols of their ancestry? The Christmas Tree is a pagan german import, Santa Clause is from Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), our cowboy archetype almost entirely imported from (you guessed it) Mexico, Jews enjoy their high holidays, and Italian flags abound on Columbus Day.

      Unite or die is a political slogan, not a cultural one. It helped give birth to a nation dedicated to protecting the right of each to the freedoms of belief, speech, and assembly, freedoms that seem to offend you.

      So, unsurprisingly, we can add hypocricy to your formidable list of odious charactersitics, because apparently the only freedom you believe in is your freedom to complain about others exercising theirs.

  3. Last week it looked like Betty Boyd had enough votes locked up to gain the presidency.  That may not be the case.  It is still a 3-way race among Boyd, John Morse and Brandon Schafer. Apparently Boyd thought she had all the women locked down, but there appears to be some attrition.

    Not sure who the favorite is at this point.

  4. As expected the three judge panel favored Franken and said that he is the lawful senator.

    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes

    How many voters do you think Coleman is influencing positively for the next election?  I’m sure a lot of indies and soft Pubs will remember this and strike back in 2010.

    1. Former NY State Senate Minority Leader Jim Tedisco has pre-emptively challenged the election in NY-20 to prevent the counting of any challenged absentee ballots.

      Tedisco’s challenges, which have been targeting 2nd home owners, (apparently) Jewish residents, and college students, hit a new low today when his team challenged newly seated Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – the district’s former Representative!

      Tedisco currently trails Democrat Scott Murphy by 47 votes.

        1. but didn’t pay much attention. My wife (who’s mostly apolitical) really loved it, though. I think Obama doesn’t get most bloggers excited, but normal people seem to like him.

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