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(Tenured Radical)

Friday, June 03, 2005

What’s Up With That?

…is one of the more obnoxious phrases UD’s fourteen-year-old spawn uses when chatting with her friends, but when UD considers books like The Ultimate Rule of Law, by David M. Beatty , that’s exactly what goes through her mind --- What’s up with that?

The book has 188 pages of writing.

It costs eighty dollars.

For ten dollars, you could copy the book out page by page at Kinko’s.

What’s up with that?