Epic fail

My career as an author was short-lived.  Despite 70-some people going to the web page where my book was for sale, I sold zero copies.

Okay, I sold one copy, if you count the one my girlfriend bought.

I guess I'm not making my living that way.

Take that... you.

From NYTimes:

"The polls that show more Americans abandoning organized religion don’t suggest a dramatic uptick in atheism: They reveal the growth of do-it-yourself spirituality, with traditional religion’s dogmas and moral requirements shorn away. The same trend is at work within organized faiths as well, where both liberal and conservative believers often encounter a God who’s too busy validating their particular version of the American Dream to raise a peep about, say, how much money they’re making or how many times they’ve been married."

Ha.

I'd like to buy a kidney, please.

I tend to assume the state is right until I form an opinion otherwise.  Which means that up until now, I'd always figured that making it illegal to sell organs was the right call.  Fair's fair, right?

Maybe.  But let's be utilitarians.  Rich people buying their way off the waiting list isn't fair, but it shortens the list.  Plenty of people who aren't willing to donate kidneys (or chunks of liver) for free would do it for the right price.  I know i would.  So yes, people with money have an advantage, but it does help everyone else on the list.  Isn't that capitalism at its best?