Feb. 18th, 2008

SRSLY?

Feb. 18th, 2008 07:10 am
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I am not prudish, at least I think I am not. I do however have an objection to this book being advertised on the 24-hour sale section on Kalahari site. There is nothing wrong to having an Adult section to the books tab. You also advertise school books at sale prices on the same page, so can't we have a nice little division and let's not put a niche BDSM novel under literary fiction, unless it is an already established adult author, say François Rabelais.

Yes, I am aware that South Africa is considered somewhat prudish in behaviour, but really, those people who will click the book will also see the recommendations for the like books with titles of "Confessions of a love slave". Now if they are adult and want to buy it, yay for them. Consider the fact that the majority of well-to-do households these days have children that are far more adept at navigating online shopping then the adults then you'll be exposing kids to stuff that really is the material reserved for corrupting oneself after you finish grade 8 Mathematics.

Oh, and the content people at the site, an actual blurb to the book would not hurt either. So be a nice little site and add on the Adult section, you know you want to.
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A chicken is a chicken is not a chicken?

Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
Feb 16 2008

Louisville, KY – The smiling visage of Colonel Sanders has been the face of KFC (also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) for many years. Even nearly thirty years after his death, the image of the jovial southern gentleman (Sanders himself was born in Indiana) still stands as the public face of the company he started in the midst of the great depression.

 

 

The article can be found here.

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Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces

By Susan Jacoby
Sunday, February 17, 2008; B01

Washington Post

"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

 

 

info@susanjacoby.com

Susan Jacoby's latest book is "The Age of American Unreason."

 

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