I apologize if I got someone severely disciplined, if not fired

Sunday night I was at a Barnes and Noble. I had promised myself not to buy anything unless it smacked me with urgency, and Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine smacked me. I knew it was coming, I'd been hearing and reading about it, and I've read and reread her No Logo, so when I saw Shock Doctrine, I bought it.

Monday morning Dan Green over at his Reading Experience posted a link to a review of Shock Doctrine. I'd been up half the night reading Shock Doctrine, and commented:

I'm halfway through the Klein, and I'm jangly. Read it.

So jangly in fact that I wanted to buy another copy to give to a mentor/friend/devils advocate/fellow traveler here at Hilltop University so we could scream at each other about it over a couple of beers. I called a B&N nearby, not the one where I had bought the book the night before.

We can't sell it yet, a voice told me. But I bought a copy last night at the B&N in XXXXville. What?!?!?! We can't sell it legally until Tuesday (today). What time of day? Where was it stocked? Was it on a front table? Someone could get fired for that!

So if anyone got fired at that B&N (the B&N that once fired this guy's ex-sister-in-law, now that I think about it), my apologies, but also my gratitude:

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I finished the book. I'm jangly. Jangly jangly jangly. Read it. (And read this Richard Crary post.)

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