If I want to read some angry, grossly over exaggerated, and truth bending literature, or even just some good old fashion rhetoric, I have to pay top dollar. I am talking about the premium shit, books by people like Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and the ever enraged, Mark Levin. The words on their pages are so angry that they feel hot to the touch . Glenn Beck’s book, Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, costs $37 in the great white north! Oh no, but I spent all my money on beer, and now I want to read about how crappy my health care system is. Ann Coulter’s 2007 book, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans, costs $32; that’s an insane price to pay, bearing in mind I have to pay 13 cents on every dollar as a sales tax. Mark Levin’s conservative manifesto, Liberty and Tyranny, will run me 33 bucks. I might save up for that because this book because it is the modern day version of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative. Mark Levin spits so much hot fire in this book that there are flames on the cover! There really are flames on the cover of this book, ironically they are directly under the American flag. Although I do protest the price of conservative Republican literature in Canada, I will admit I did pre-order the Sarah Palin’s book in November of 2009. Going Rouge cost me $35 ($39.55 with tax), I was willing to pay this amount because I can relate to Mrs. Palin; I too have shot a moose for supper, while on the way back from a hockey game.
I cannot keep dishing out this kind of money for books that are going to make me start cursing at my own Prime Minister. Probably along the lines of a socialist or a communist son-of-a-bitch. The ironic thing is that the Canadian government makes a boat load of change off of me when I do buy these books. With the harmonized sales tax at 13% it’s no wonder I am reading so much about the free market.
Apparently, Adam Smith did wear an Adam Smith necktie. At least that is what I read in one of my books.
