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Originally Posted by Nate the great

He was on The Colbert Report last night (a late night satirical talk show on Comedy Central). He wasn't as inflammatory as when he wanted to punch you in the face. This time around he was merely misinformed and paranoid.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...sherman-alexie

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He signed my Kindle a couple months back at Fall for the Book. I'm really beginning to regret having asked.

"I think white folks should be ashamed it takes an Indian to save a part of their culture." Hunh??? What the f**k is he talking about? Oh, right. He's talking about how we should continue to *buy* locally our books. Now as he's alluding to the "Eat Locally-grown Food" movement, that means he only wants us to *read* books that are written by local authors. Oh great! That means I can only read Sarah Paretsky, Sue Grafton, James Patterson and a few others. Can't read any J.K. Rowling - no John Ringo or David Weber allowed in *my* bookstore basket! Well hayl-fahr-n-damnation! Thet means I won't be able to read any Adam Smith (there goes any attempt at understanding real economic theory) or Ayn Rand (same for libertarian fiction).

Yeah. Sherman Alexie can go sit on a peace pipe and rotate for all I care.

Derek

And yes, Alexie's views dovetail nicely with Kaufman's. It's the same old 'restrict what authors the customers can read so they'll be FORCED to read our books' crud.