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To our readers in the UK:

We are so sorry for what has happened in London today, and we hope that you, your families, and your friends and loved ones are safe.

We know how this feels, and you are in our thoughts.

-The Smart Bitches

Edited to Add:

Maili requested animated gifs to cheer her up. So in solidarity with our friends across the pond, we offer a one-time-only presentation. 

Did everyone else go see the AAR Cover Contest results and I was the only one who forgot to look and see the winners?

I love that (a) I was quoted and (b) the oral sex in the car won worst cover. Dang that cover is… well, I don’t know what it is. 

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

*facepalm*

Wait. Oh, great. The Communist Manifesto is more dangerous than Mein Kampf? Whaaaa?

Other dangerous books that made the list include The Kinsey Report (because it gives “a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy"), John Dewey’s Democracy and Education and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. The Origin of the Species only got an honorable mention and wasn’t in the top 10, ditto The Second Sex. Frankly, I’m shocked.

Personally, I don’t believe in classifying books as dangerous. There are only dangerous people. Dangerously stupid people, that is.

p.s. It’s not necessarily the books on the list that piss me off, though that’s certainly part of it. I think the idea of dangerous book lists are pretty retarded in general. I’d think lists that tried to claim that works like, say, Atlas Shrugged, The Theory of Money and Credit and Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism as being dangerous would be equally ridiculous.

Well, folks, seems like Bookaza and its two mirror sites were finally shut down for good. Darlene Marshall copied the message they had on one of their sites. I’m re-posting it here, because it’s freakin’ hilarious:

Remeber, a coin always have two sides.

At one side, stealing from publishers is bad. At other side, we helped hundreds of people who cannot afford to pay up to $100 for a book. We make those people happy, understand it? As for our profit, some of money we earned, we send to Zimbabwe children help fund. We think publishers are reach enought already, and those money we’ve “stolen” maybe saved somebody’s life. And we could save even more lives, but say thanks to outstanding hecker and his “brave” team.

God will judge you.

with best regards, bookaza team

ps: meet you in a couple of days, hasta la vista!
pps: mafia’s immortal
ppps: sorry for poor english (:
pppps: look! you have won guys! So how is it - the taste of victory? =))

Wait: $100 for a book? What kind of crack were these people smoking? Whatever it is, they need to have a word with their dealer.

And God will judge me--IF THERE WAS A GOD, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Love,

Uppity Godless Chink, enjoying the sweet, sweet taste of victory indeed.

Oh my God, y’all. Lilith has been busy as a BUG and has set up the Romantic Bitches Association. This is for real. It is an actual, legal non-profit corporation.

Anyway, Sarah and I are in. In in in. Wheeee! Any of you interested as well? We’ll definitely need volunteers to get this going.