Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Sometimes it's better not to ask
Part of my daily Internet rounds tends to be Amazon.com, where I take a two minute look at the Top 100 and anything else that looks interesting. And every so often something really bizarre crops up all of a sudden on the bestseller lists that I can't explain.
Case in point: The #1 book in the U.S. right now is The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek).
Now, aside from feeling like a moron for not knowing who the hell F.A. Hayek was, (Selma's grandfather?) I had to know what this was all about.
A quick Google search solved the mystery: Apparently Glenn Beck held up a copy of it on his show and urged his frightening followers to put down their "Where's the birth certificate?" signs and read it.
He probably cried, too.
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Case in point: The #1 book in the U.S. right now is The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek).
Now, aside from feeling like a moron for not knowing who the hell F.A. Hayek was, (Selma's grandfather?) I had to know what this was all about.
A quick Google search solved the mystery: Apparently Glenn Beck held up a copy of it on his show and urged his frightening followers to put down their "Where's the birth certificate?" signs and read it.
He probably cried, too.
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