News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #74…

Item: Attacking Amazon. OK, I said I wouldn’t weigh in on the Amazon v. Hachette kerfuffle anymore, but I must say here that the one-sidedness continues. Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist and ex-economist, wrote in his column last Monday, “Amazon has too much power and uses that power to hurt America.” Holy Jumpin’ Jokers, Batman, they must be worse than ISIS! Do we need boots-on-the-ground, Paul, to invade the Amazon warehouses that are hurting America? Is Bezos going to terrorize Patterson a...