-- In [email protected], "Ann" <awoelflebater@...> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost1uk@> wrote: > > > > Browsing in the high-falutin' section of > > my local book shop today I came across this: > > > > "Assholes: A Theory" by philosopher Aaron James > > http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4884 > > > > Sounds like fun. (But alas it's cheaper online so my > > local shop may loose out).
> Don't be a cheap A-hole and buy it from your local book > store. I mean, surely you can afford to spend an extra > $5-$10 to support the little independent. Well I'm a poor, poor man Ann, but yes, I know. Guilt felt! Except this isn't a little independent, but a national chain (http://www.waterstones.com/). They have the blood of little independents on their hands! And also, they sell the book online themselves cheaper than on the street (but not as cheap as Amazon). Perhaps I would do right by buying from the latter and giving the difference to my local cat charity, or to David Lynch's thing? The thing is though - I spent a happy hour browsing the books, and if I generalised my action ("if I and everyone else did this...") then probably I would lose that option. So you need not appeal to my self-respect so much as to my self-interest? By comparison Arjuna's dilemma looks like a walk in the park. I only went in for a coffee. > > (BTW what's the difference between an asshole and an > > arsehole? Does one get published, and the other not? Or > > are we, as so often, divided by our common language?) > > > > From a review on Amazon: > > > > "James classifies a-holes by type, including the boorish > > a-hole (Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore), the smug a-hole > > (Richard Dawkins, Larry Summers), the a-hole boss (Naomi > > Campbell), the presidential a-hole (Hugo Chavez), the reckless > > a-hole (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld), the self-aggrandizing > > a-hole (Ralph Nader), the cable news a-hole (Neil Cavuto, > > Keith Olbermann), and the delusional a-hole (Kanye West, > > Wall Street bankers). James covers the spectrum from liberals > > to conservatives in his search for a-holes and applies his > > test with, I think, a nonpartisan outlook." > > > > Also looking promising and about my tribe: > > "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and > > the Quantum Revival" > > >
