Perhaps they can also put a few copies in the market/finance section. When I asked them why it was not on the table of new books as you enter the store (many other new books on finance/market appear there) they were not sure?! Perhaps you can have a talk with them to move your book front and center at the main entrance with the other new books, or at least have it visible under the other market books!

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BR: Those front table spaces are coop — meaning the publisher pays the book store rent for the space (same for prime Supermarket shelf space). The official publication date is May 26, and the West Coast is just having them arrive the past few days. We should see them more prominently displayed at all Borders and B&N come next week . . .

Lying for money.

Quick! Call Arnold!! More fodder for is agruement to decriminalize pot in order to create one hell of a revenue stream.

:-0

ATLAS SHRUGGED
UPDATED FOR THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS.
BY JEREMIAH TUCKER
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/20tucker.html

1.

“Damn it, Dagny! I need the government to get out of the way and let me do my job!”

She sat across the desk from him. She appeared casual but confident, a slim body with rounded shoulders like an exquisitely engineered truss. How he hated his debased need for her, he who loathed self-sacrifice but would give up everything he valued to get in her pants … Did she know?

“I heard the thugs in Washington were trying to take your Rearden metal at the point of a gun,” she said. “Don’t let them, Hank. With your advanced alloy and my high-tech railroad, we’ll revitalize our country’s failing infrastructure and make big, virtuous profits.”

“Oh, no, I got out of that suckers’ game. I now run my own hedge-fund firm, Rearden Capital Management.”

“What?”

He stood and adjusted his suit jacket so that his body didn’t betray his shameful weakness. He walked toward her and sat informally on the edge of her desk. “Why make a product when you can make dollars? Right this second, I’m earning millions in interest off money I don’t even have.”

He gestured to his floor-to-ceiling windows, a symbol of his productive ability and goodness.

“There’s a whole world out there of byzantine financial products just waiting to be invented, Dagny. Let the leeches run my factories into the ground! I hope they do! I’ve taken out more insurance on a single Rearden Steel bond than the entire company is even worth! When my old company finally tanks, I’ll make a cool $877 million.”

Their eyes locked with an intensity she was only beginning to understand. Yes, Hank … claim me … If we’re to win the battle against the leeches, we must get it on … right now … Don’t let them torture us for our happiness … or our billions.

He tore his eyes away.

“I can’t. Sex is base and vile!”

“No, it’s an expression of our highest values and our admiration for each other’s minds.”

“Your mind gives me the biggest boner, Dagny Taggart.”

He fell upon her like a savage, wielding his mouth like a machete, and in the pleasure she took from him her body became an extension of her quarterly earnings report—proof of her worthiness as a lover. His hard-on was sanction enough.

“Scream your secret passions, Hank Rearden!”

“Derivatives!”

“Yes!”

“Credit-default swaps!”

“Oh, yes! Yes!”

“Collateralized debt obligation.”

“YES! YES! YES!”

2.

Dagny and Hank searched through the ruins of the 21st Century Investment Bank. As they stepped through the crumbling cubicles, a trampled legal pad with a complex column of computations captured Dagny’s attention. She fell to her hands and knees and raced through the pages and pages of complex math written in a steady hand. Her fingers bled from the paper cuts, and she did not care.

“What is it, Dagny?”

“Read this.”

“Good God!”

“Yes, it’s an experimental formula for a financial strategy that could convert static securities into kinetic profits that would increase at an almost exponential rate.”

Hank studied the numbers. “The amount of debt you would need to make this work would be at least 30-to-1, but a daring, rational man who lives by his mind would be willing to take that risk!”

“Yes, and it’s so complex the government could never regulate it.”

“It’s perfect. There’s only one problem—half the pages are missing. Could you reconstruct it, Dagny?”

Her answer escaped her lips like air from a punctured galvanized-steel duct:

“No.”

“I didn’t think so, but why leave such an achievement to rot here? It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever laid eyes on, made by a monumental genius, the sort of mind that’s only born once in a century … Dagny, why are you fondling your breasts?”

did you mean: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Heartical

or, heretical
ht tp://www.thefreedictionary.com/heretical ?

past that, you’re right, people on these boards have been making the “Smoking/Toking “Green Shoots”" reference way b4 this art..

past that, this: http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1242973800.php is, probably, worthwhile for most people

But we’ve been toking about this correlation for a few weeks now…

I have not been reposting the comment so I don’t know why, if BR is in fact deleting it, it keeps re-appearing.