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Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Mundane Wednesday Edition

Jimmie | March 9, 2011 | Comments (0)

There isn’t much to be said today. It’s Wednesday, there’s nothing particularly exciting going on in my world (except perhaps the release of a new episode of The Delivery later today), and the weather is supposed to turn foul later. ON the good side, I have a three-day weekend to which to look forward and the projects on which I’ve been working are getting much closer to completion. Hooray for that!

And now, links.

Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth. As I predicted more than two years ago, President Obama has not only not closed Guantanamo Bay, but he’s going back to pretty much the way things worked when George Bush was President. How did I know that? Sometimes there’s only one good answer to a problem.
I honestly don’t know of a potential GOP candidate for 2012 that gets the kind of pop from audiences that Herman Cain does on a consistent basis. He’s not getting the media or establishment love right now, but if he continues to get the enthusiasm from the grassroots he’s building right now, he will.
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama promised to move quickly on three important free trade deals. Since then, he’s done little to nothing to move them to Congress, even though Colombia is practically begging us to finish the deal we started negotiating four years ago. Par for the course with this President, I’m afraid.
In Harry Reid’s world, Cowboy Poetry subsidies are a necessary expense. On a related note, the deficit we racked up from all Reid’s wonderful spending in just the month of February exceeded the debt from the entire year of 2007 under the guy whom Barack Obama blames for all his problems.
Remember the Guillermo del Toro movie adaptation of At the Mountans of Madness that so excited me yesterday? Well, never mind.
Fantasy magazine will relaunch this week with a new look, new stories (some of which will be free), and a new electronic subscription model that looks pretty appealing.
Here’s an interesting story about e-book pricing and the ethics of piracy. I’m convinced that book publishers are doing with e-book prices what movie distributors did with video tapes back when rentals were the new thing: keep them prohibitively high to force people to make the purchases you want them to make then drop them when you’ve run that well mostly dry. The problem is, that no longer works, especially with a wholly-digital product. Eventually, they’ll learn.