Arthur D. Hlavaty

The US is going to have a strategic reserve of bitcoin. Maybe we can give some of it as foreign aid to countries we don’t really like.

Of course Amazon charges a lot for that book. Something Barack Obama wrote in 1725 is very rare. [The Mary Sue]

Fake pagan authors on Amazon

Thanx to twistedchick

There may be as many as 11 million fake businesses on Google Maps [The Verge]

They always pretended the athletes were students. Now they're pretending the students are athletes.

Fake journals hire fake editor.

Thanx to med_cat

Draw the bull’s-eye before firing the shot

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Murdoch minions apparently gaming the Times bestseller list for They Let Me Be a Republican Even Though I'm Hispanic, or whatever the new Ted Cruz book is called. I guess it's easier when you've got a church full of believers to buy the Founder's dekalogy.

"Ex-gay" study repudiated.

Thanx to andrewducker

When I saw Borat, I felt at the time, and more as I thought about it, that much of it was failed entrapment. Borat goes, "Let's hate $GROUP!" and his foils go, "Yeah!" or "Yeah, whatever." womzilla theorizes that fake fake pimp James O'Keefe wants to grow up to be Borat, but he is even worse at it. Amanda Marcotte discusses.

Thanx to Pandagon.