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It is our belief that lazy people accomplish far more with less energy than non-lazy people. Lazy people work efficiently. After all, one does not want to burn precious calories on effort, when those same calories can be put toward important activities like sleeping. So lazy people — the ones who invented the printing press and typewriter and word processor and are working to perfect voice activated technology — cut out the inefficient in the world and get things done. Yet some people don’t find this comforting. Put forward in the book, The Joy of Laziness – How to Slow

While we have serious reservations about the CAN-SPAM legislation (but we’re a bit of an expert on the whole issue. Unfortunately.), we are happy when the government gets all tough. Finding spammers is not as hard as the press would have you believe, but it takes resources. And, sadly, much spam originates outside our borders (if you doubt this, we will graciously allow you to read the Booksquare spam archives…or as we call it, The Temple of Doom). But if you have a law like this, it needs to be enforced. Spam harms us all. It costs the spammers nothing,

No, really, we have no idea what was slipped into our wine glass. All we know is that we’re suddenly feeling funky. Hmm, maybe it’s possible we like sunshine more than we’d ever admit in public (or maybe it’s that we could drive today without fear of someone rearending us…Los Angeles drivers never take yellow lights seriously). Whatever it is, it has us veering so far from our original topic, we’ve forgotten what it was. We’ll be right back. Ah, right. Genre fiction writers. Mad Max interviews the author currently known as Lynn Viehl (yes, one beauty of genre fiction

And, there’s another one. This time it’s a library banning a book. Nudity. Specifically, nude Supreme Court justices. On one hand, the lack of muscle tone and physical fitness (and, frankly, lack of endowment) is pretty obscene. If we’re going to be subjected to naked men, we want them to look good. On the other hand…it’s a joke. A parody. An example of humor. Presumably the justices themselves figured that one out. Now, we get the idea of protecting children, but they’ve seen naked bodies. At least we assume all children bathe — though some may avoid the task as

We have to admit, we chuckled when we read this: Mr. [John] Logan’s handlers at the Creative Artists Agency also enhanced his status before he began writing “The Aviator” by building into his deal an unusual provision guaranteeing him sole screenplay credit, Charles Evans Jr., one of the film’s producers, said in an interview. The guarantee blocked the producers, who included the normally hands-on filmmaker Michael Mann, and even Mr. Scorsese from hiring writers to revise Mr. Logan’s work or from professing any part in the screenplay’s authorship, whatever they may have contributed. Asked whether he had such protection, Mr.