RGD: release the hounds

This is the official starting gun for the Amazon book bomb for The Return of the Great Depression. If you’re interested in buying it, either for yourself or for someone else, I’d encourage you to order a copy from Amazon in the next 12 hours. Its initial ranking was 19,795 overall and 50 in Economic History, so that’s the starting point. If you’re keeping track of the ratings as well as your fantasy team, feel free to post them here as they change on an hourly basis. I think 1,000 and 10 would be an excellent objective; anything above that would be a smashing success.

By way of encouragement, I’d like the Dread Ilk to be the first to know about the dedicated book site, which was developed for RGD by WorldNetDaily. In addition to featuring a collection of my WND columns related to the economic crisis dating back to 2002, it also has some economic prediction trackings – including a rather nice one in 2008 that I’d completely forgotten – scheduled events, reviews, and an economics blog where I will be posting daily. The official publication date isn’t until Thursday, but I believe that WND intends to announce the book site tomorrow. Some additional content, such as YouTube videos, will likely appear on the site in the relatively near future. I also plan to make some of the spreadsheets I used in producing the charts for the book available for download from the site as well.

I very much appreciate the encouragement that people here have shown throughout the writing of RGD and I hope that you will find that it does not disappoint you. It is not a massive book, but it is most definitely a data-rich one. And we should probably all hope that it is a massively incorrect one.

UPDATE – Thank you very much if you participated in the Amazon launch last night. It was a huge success and significantly exceeded my hopes for it by reaching #90 overall and #5 in Economics. You even made it the #1 Mover and Shaker on Amazon! I appreciate the confidence you have shown in the book and will look forward to hearing your thoughts on it after it arrives and you read it.

Posted by Vox Day.

MFL Week 6

118 Judean Front (5-1)
29 Black Mouth Curs (3-3)

85 Alamo City Spartans (4-2)
35 Valders Valkyries (4-2)

79 Winston Reverends (3-3)
49 Mounds View Meerkats (4-2)

104 Masonville Marauders (2-4)
64 Bane Silvers (2-4)

82 Burns Redbeards (2-4)
54 Greenfield Grizzlies (1-5)

VP-AFL

87.70 Masonville Marauders (5-1)
67.55 South Plains Storm (2-4)

103.25 Village Valkyries (4-2)
88.85 Oakies (2-4)

144.80 The Thunder (4-2)
99.60 Lesbian Dorito Night (5-1)

135.70 Cranberry Bogs (2-4)
62.60 COS McRays (1-5)

146.00 Supernaut’s Jihad (2-4)
126.25 Az Thunder Chickens (3-3)

This will serve as your open NFL thread for today. I know you’re all as excited about Michael Crabtree’s debut as I am. I have to confess to being very nervous about what Big Ben may be able to do against a Winfield-less Vikings secondary. Fortunately, Pittsburgh offensive line is pretty bad, so the big question today appears to be if the Vikings front four can get to the quarterback before the secondary collapses.

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The NYT attempts to butch up Obama

Yeah, not so much:

The suspicion flared in recent weeks — and not for the first time — after President Obama was criticized by women’s advocates and liberal bloggers for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players. The president, after all, is an unabashed First Guy’s Guy. Since being elected, he has demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of college hoops on ESPN, indulged a craving for weekend golf, expressed a preference for adopting a “big rambunctious dog” over a “girlie dog” and hoisted beer in a peacemaking effort.

I can’t wait until they try to dress him in a leather motorcycle jacket and put him on a Harley. It will be Dukakis-in-a-tank times ten. Love him or loathe him, George W. Bush was a guy’s guy. I despised the man and his disastrous presidency, but I can’t honestly say that I’d object to him coming over to watch the game with the guys. Whereas you know Obama would prefer be in the kitchen drinking white zinfandel and exchanging arugula recipes with the women.

This piece tells you more about the alienation of the New York Times from all things masculine than it does about the Obama administration. It reminds me of the time that the Chilliette’s girlfriends from San Francisco were concerned that her Scandinavian computer programmer fiance was “too macho” If Obama was a real guy’s guy, he’d respond by inviting some of the women who have been critical of him to the next basketball game, then blowing them off the court. And then, in a month or two, hosting a game of tackle football in the snow.

Posted by Vox Day.