DC Reasonoids: Booze, Books, and The Lost Sisterhood with Anne Fortier, 3/12

Reason and IHS would like to invite you to a book launch event on Wednesday, March 12th featuring IHS alum and former IHS staff member, Anne Fortier's new novel, The Lost Sisterhood.

New York Times bestselling author of JULIET, Anne Fortier, will talk about her new book, The Lost Sisterhood, a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation--and her life--on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed (read more at www.annefortier.com).

Join us following the launch event, for an after–party at Reason's DC office where Anne will discuss literature and liberty with friends and supporters.

• Date: Wednesday, March 12 
• Time: 7:00pm – Book Launch and Signing Event; 8:30pm – After-party celebration at Reason 
• Location: Books-A-Million in Dupont Circle 11 Dupont Cir NW, Washington, DC; Reason DC HQ 1747 Connecticut Ave NW (5 minute walk north on Connecticut Ave.)

Please register online for this event or email Katie Vernuccio at [e-mail].

Comments

[Almanian!]

Can you guys do a book signing in East Lansing, Ann Arbor or Detroit so we SE/Michiganderanian/Toledoites can attend without booking a flight?

Thanks for your consideration...

[John]

And if you are going to get one, ask for one with Ms. Fortier. She seems to be quite fetching.

[Coeus]

Wreckers!!!

A drug company refuses to give a dying 7-year-old boy experimental medication because doing so would cut into its profits.

But the company's CEO, Kenneth Moch, said Chimerix cannot agree to provide the drug for compassionate use because it would then be obligated to share the drug with other patients ? and he said that would be too costly.

"If this were just one patient wanting this drug, then this would be a very different question," Moch said. "But it's yes to all or no to all."

Chimerix hopes to begin marketing brincidofovir by the end of 2016, and Moch said the 54-person company cannot afford to spend $50,000 on each compassionate-use patient or divert workers to handle the requests, patient records, and follow-up required by law.

[Coeus]

Liberals should definitely be proud that their leaders don't routinely generate the "look what nutty things that bag of stupid is saying today!" type of coverage. Being the political side that is primarily seen as mature, intelligent, and non-hateful has its advantages, especially in the realm of avoiding self-loathing. Sure, there are a lot of conservative outlets that try to drum up similar outrage on the right about things liberals are saying, such as Twitchy, but it almost never works to get mainstream coverage. That's because most of what they find "outrageous" statements by liberals fall into a handful of basic categories: 1) Impatience with conservative bad faith 2) Being funny 3) A ready acceptance that sexism and racism exist and 4) A perceived excess of human kindness. None of which really sounds "outrageous" to anyone who thinks humor, good faith, kindness or lack of self-delusion are loathsome qualities to have.