My name is kristin king and im the manager here and i want to thank you all for joining us this evening. A couple notes before we begin. First and foremost, the book is available for purchase in the bookstore and will be available after the event and in addition there will be a signing. Second, we have a really fantastic fall lineup coming at all six of our busboys and books location this fall. Theres an event signup list being passed around on a clipboard, so feel free to add your name and email address. Thank you again for joining us and without further ado join me in welcoming and he and doctor ibram kendi. [applause]. Think you. Pleasure to have you all here on this rainy afternoon. Although, compared to whats happening in houston our hearts and minds go to the people they are. I want to welcome all of you for being here and let you know that independent bookstores are dropped dying breed. They can only make a comeback if you support them and buy support them i dont mean to say its
According to the mlb, rodriguez not only abusd banned substances but also tried to destroy evidence once an investigation was under way. In typical achlt rod fashion, arod is placing the blame on everyone but arod. Theres more than one party that benefits from me not ever stepping back on the field and thats not my teammates and it is not the yankee fans. When all this stuff is going on in the background and people are finding creative ways to cancel your contract and stuff like that, i think thats concerning. The man accused of cheefting claiming hes being cheated out of his 90 million contract. Joining me today, Washington Bureau chief for buzz feed, john stanton, founder and president of the center for social inclusion, maya wiley. From sirius xm, chris mad dog ruse sew and Benjamin Wallace wells. The happy hothead, something that could possibly be said about alex rodriguez. Mad dog. How about arod trying to blame the yankees . Who else is he going to blame . Right . Never himself.
And yet some of you watch my show on youtube. Thats stealing. And thats our show tonight. And now john stossel. Ideas can change the world. For most of human history, people suffered in miserable poverty, mainly because no one had thought of better ways to do things. Then suddenly in just the last few hundred years, some new ideas made life better for billions. Things like running water, the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, now the internet. We want people to keep coming up with new ideas, but theres a problem. Why would you bother to spend years inventing something if other people could just steal your idea . Theyd make the money you might not. Lets say a guy invents a better light bulb. His price needs to cover not just the manufacturing costs but also the cost of inventing the thing in the first place. Now lets say a competitor starts manufacturing a competing copy. The competitor doesnt need to cover those development costs. So his version can be cheaper. The bottom l
Liable for monetary damage. And some of you watch my show on youtube. Thats stealing and thats our show tonight. And non, john stossel. Ideas can change the world. For most of Human History people suffered in miserable poverty because no one thought of better ways to do things. Then suddenly in just the last few hundred years, some new ideas made life better for billions. Things like Running Water the printing press, the steam engine electricity. Now the internet. We want people to keep coming up with new ideas but theres a problem. Why would you bother to spend years inventing something if other people could just steal your idea. Theyd make the money you might not. Lets say a guy invents the light bulb. His price needs to cover the manufacturing cost, and the cost of inventing the thing in the first place. A competitor manufactures a competing copy, the competitor doesnt need to cover the development costs. The bottom line, original creation cant compete with the price of copies. That
Everything out linearly. If youre curious about where one person appears in the story and who else theyre connected to, you can sort the entire timeline by individual characters in the drama. Its the most useful thing that i have ever seen anybody lay out online about the whole story. You know what it is . Its a great homework device for Rachel Maddow viewers so they can stay right up to speed with where we are right now. It also helps you cheat on the test because thats where the teacher is learning stuff too. Thank you, rachel. Well, on this 210th day of the trump presidency, no one in the United States and possibly no one in the world was surprised when the president s response to an apparent terrorist attack in barcelona was to lie. The president is not president ial enough to step up to a microphone and Say Something articulate and supportive to and about the people of spain and barcelona, and so the president did what any child could do. He tweeted. Twitter is the least dignified