"Hater," by David Moody was selected as freedombookclub.com's Book of the Month for October 2010.  It was recommended to the club by participant and horror novelist Wayne Simmons.

Brought to you by the people that caused the Dust Bowl (through misguided homesteading acts).

Back in 1997 my brother and I worked together at a bagel shop.  Every payday, we would gleefully go back to the local bank to cash out checks.  We would gloat over our seemingly massive amounts of "Power Units."  We had been told all our lives that our money was backed by GOLD. Wasn't the gold stored in Fort Knox what was providing the power to our "power units"?

When I read the headline to this McClatchy News Service Article I just about blew my top. What is it about those meddling bunglers in Washington that makes them so eager to regulate every activity (including that of the sun)?

The following is a three minute speach I prepared for an event.

Update!

A CABAL BLOG POST!, by FURB:

A while ago I was reading the forums at a very fun book website called bookcrossing.com. I came across a message posted by CynthiaA. In it she talks about how her friend (who works for a Canadian publisher) feels that people that use websites to acquire free books are going to cost her the job she loves. CynthiaA's friend had sent a link to a New York Times piece that contends increases in efficiency in the secondhand book market are causing problems throughout the publishing industry.