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Month: March 2006

  • The Little Red Riding Hood Who Cried Wolf in Sheep's Clothing in the Sheep House

    Ron: You know honey, it’s like in Little Red Riding Hood where she hears about the wolf in the sheep house. Me: There’s no such thing as a sheep house. (Is he thinking ‘fox in a hen house’?) Ron: And Little Red Riding Hood hears about the wolf wearing sheep’s clothing and runs to grandma’s […]

  • Astro Boy Does Quality Control

    Got my first box of books from the publisher’s warehouse yesterday. Kitty did some quality assurance:

  • Hotcakes

    Ron had a dream that my book sold over 2 million copies. I did some quick math and I think that’d be about 6 million dollars in royalties: Ron: Wow. Your book would be selling like pancakes. Andy: Hotcakes, honey. Hotcakes. Ron: (wandering to kitchen to hunt for snacks) What is hotcakes? Sometimes it’s like […]

  • Zanzibar Ice Cream

    Here at the cafe watching the pre-lunch crowd fill in. Figure I would root through my email here for an hour or two in order to ge tmyself out of the house. Ron is at his place making coffee and prepping to go to the gym. I’ve become strangely optimistic about the book in the […]

  • Bookfat

    I wrote an essay on my business blog about bookfat. No, not backfat. Bookfat.

  • Cost of Iraq War Could Top 1 Trillion Dollars

    Martin Wolk at MSNBC writes: Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and self-described opponent of the war, puts the final figure at a staggering $1 trillion to $2 trillion, including $500 billion for the war and occupation and up to $300 billion in future health care costs for wounded troops. Additional costs include a negative […]

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  • House Republicans Block Spending to Secure Nation's Ports

    Moments ago, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated an amendment proposed by Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN) that would have provided $1.25 billion in desperately needed funding for port security and disaster preparedness. It would have helped to ensure that all major US ports had customs officials on hand to do inspections.

  • Ashcroft Cashes In

    Mr. Ashcroft has become a Washington lobbyist, setting himself up as something of an anti-Abramoff and marketing his insider’s knowledge of how Washington works. One of Mr. Ashcroft’s newest clients is ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer data that is increasingly being used by the government to keep tabs on people within the United States. The […]

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