New items at the
Daily Kos store:
We'll be rolling out a whole line of "Is it 2008 yet?" gear over the coming months, but we've started with the brown hoodie, a ceramic coffee mug, and a travel stainless steel coffee mug. And the existing line of t-shirts is still as cool today as when we launched. I've been pretty pleased with the gear -- beats the crap out of crappy Cafe Press stuff.
Now would it be possible for me to write a post shamlessly promoting stuff without mentioning the book? I know this annoys some of you, but tough shit. Lucky for everyone, your eyes can just skip this post and move further down the page or over to the diaries. So don't forget to pre-order Crashing the Gates: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics.
And while my book talks about rebuilding the party infrastructure, David Sirota has his own book coming out at around the same time:
From Sirota:
The book is a users guide to not being bullshitted by corrupt politicians on the major economic issues. The book goes through 10 major ovearching economic issues and shows how politicians use lies, myths and half-truths to make us believe they are legislating for ordinary people, when in fact they are doing Big Money's bidding. In other words, it goes through meticulously and shows how bought-off politicians have become corporate PR spokespeople. It is designed, in many ways, to be a reference guide - readers can read the whole book, or just parts. The goal is to have readers have the book next to them when they watch the evening news, and when a story about a major pocketbook issue comes up, they will be able to flip to the relevant chapter and debunk what they've just heard.
This should be a great complement to Crashing the Gates. In our book, Jerome and I carefully avoid talking about "ideas" and "issues", noting that a well-developed VLWC will generate those ideas and distribute them to the masses. Sirota and I don't agree on everything (who does?), but he's defnitely an idea machine. I can't wait to read this book.
I wish both our books were coming out next week. Our publisher is moving at warp speed (for the publishing biz), and still it takes months to get a book from manuscript to bookshelves. And given that I get annoyed when it takes more than two seconds to publish a post on this site after I hit "submit", it's a whole different experience. I'm sure Sirota feels that same way.