{"id":330,"date":"2014-12-03T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/happy-buy-whatever-you-want-we-aint-judging-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T07:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T07:31:46","slug":"happy-buy-whatever-you-want-we-aint-judging-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/12\/happy-buy-whatever-you-want-we-aint-judging-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Buy-Whatever-You-Want-We-Ain’t-Judging Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve survived Black Friday, Buy-Local Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday– congrats! You’ve safely made it to Buy-Yourself-Something-Without-Feeling-Like-You-Need-to-Justify-It-to-Anyone-‘Cause-It’s-Your-Damn-Money-and-You-Earned-It-DAMMIT!<\/i> Wednesday. You’ve been a good enough boy or girl all year. You didn’t stab anyone over the turkey, tofurky, or turdogducken this year. You didn’t riot at Best Buy in order to snatch the last cut-rate flat-panel TV from the frail hands of a palsied child. You didn’t systematically destroy the solvency of the middle class while larding corporate profits to an all-time high, or gut any semblance of regulation on corporate political spending, extra-Constitutionally track and analyze the communications of of hundreds of thousands–if not millions–of law-abiding US citizens.
\nYou deserve a tiny little something extra, a tiny treat that you don’t have to justify to another living soul: A fancy cup o’ coffee, an afternoon cookie, a new game for your phone, a couple MP3s, or perhaps . . .<\/p>\n

\nThe New Guys Always Work Overtime<\/a>: An award winning time-portal short (first published in Asimov’s<\/i> last year). Taylor works for Just-in-Time Fabrication and Fulfillment. Instead of outsourcing production, his company is 100% MADE IN AMERICA\u2014and keeps prices down by bringing in cheap labor through a time portal. Training these quaint temp workers seems like a good job\u2014until Taylor meets the latest batch of New Guys. (Also available from other ebook retailers and DRM-free<\/a>, if that suits you better.)
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