Barry Eisler  Wednesday, December 07, 2011  Hachette: We Are
Still Relevant!  This time I remembered to link to where I'm
guest blogging.  Today, there was a leak of an internal Hachette
memo on why Hachette (and, by extension, legacy publishing
generally) is still relevant. I fisk it with Joe Konrath over at
Joe's blog. It's pretty bad... but see for yourself. Bookmark
and Share  Tuesday, December 06, 2011  Leon Panetta is Full of
Shit  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants you to be scared.  In
a letter to Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Panetta
warned that after possible cuts in the military budget, "we
would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest
number of ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Force in its
history."  Which would be pretty damn bad… if we wound up having
to go to war with America's 1940 army, 1915 navy, or some
historical version of America's Air Force. If we're lucky,
though, and don't have to go to war with past incarnations of
our military, Panetta's comparison