Also, because I lack a comprehensive bookmark management system these days: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/print.

I don’t expect many of my right-leaning acquaintances will enjoy reading this so you have been forewarned.

The project? A wiki that documents the web of connections between movement conservatives and their dealings in the marketplace. There would also have to be some faceted navigation to that data dump lest one get bogged down in the fog.

The marketing angle presented in the link is something I’ve often mulled when listening to local AM talk radio during its interminable run of commercials. Things like how most answers to your economic woes are investment opportunities in numismatics presented as investment in their underlying metals. Other things like as you get later into the evening, the likelihood that the particular personality will be pimping their most recent book will increase geometrically. I used to think that Colbert doing the latter was distasteful until I recently realized it is another satirical bit.

I’d go on, but then I’d be getting preachy. And I’ll save that for the wiki project.