Rush Limbaugh and the Obama Thesis

[Drake Tungsten]

With that kind of pay, I'm tempted to try and become the next Rush Limbaugh. It's just trolling on a grand scale, isn't it?

[KrazyHorse]

Too much competition. I'm not interested in tournaments where the failure options don't also pay adequately well.

EDIT: part of the reason to leave academia, of course; there, even the top prize doesn't pay very well (full prof at top tier reasearch university = ~150k)

[Drake Tungsten]

It can't be that hard to write a Coulter-esque book. I can probably do it in my spare time, converting the time I spend trolling here for free into time spent professionally trolling for millions.

[KrazyHorse]

Nobody will pay attention to your coulterish book. Becoming a celebrity is the hard part; being a celebrity is easy.

[Drake Tungsten]

Nobody will pay attention to your coulterish book.

Not even with a snappy title like "Simony: How Liberals Have Corrupted God, the Church and the American Way of Life"?

[KrazyHorse]

Too obviously a ripoff.

I like the religious aspect, though.

"Urban Atheism and the Rise of America's Immoral Elite"

[Drake Tungsten]

You've got to follow the "Vague Yet Forceful Title + colon + Descriptive Subtitle" formula if you want to get a book published in this day and age.

Also, Coulter already wrote "Godless: The Church of Liberalism", which was pretty much "Urban Atheism and the Rise of America's Immoral Elite".

[DaShi]

Presidential Terrorism: How the White House Fell to Al Qaeda

[DaShi]

Oops, that was the Bush administration.

[KrazyHorse]

You've got to follow the "Vague Yet Forceful Title + colon + Descriptive Subtitle" formula if you want to get a book published in this day and age.

Also, Coulter already wrote "Godless: The Church of Liberalism", which was pretty much "Urban Atheism and the Rise of America's Immoral Elite".

At least it sounds vaguely different. Yours reminded me too much of "Treason: How Liberals yadda yadda yadda"

[Drake Tungsten]

That was kind of the point.

[Ben Kenobi]

Drake, stop stealing my ideas. Being a professional troll isn't as easy as it looks you know. It sucks having to wear a bullet proof vest when you make an appearance to your adoring public.

[Whoha]

That was kind of the point.

The name/title has to be absolutely awesome for you to even have a shot.

[zakubandit]

Falls inline with 99% of news outlet's non-news that has been reported lately. Bloggers, IMHO, are really taking a **** on real news and ****ing things up so bad that real news is skewed so not even the reporters know what is real and what isn't. But then again...Rush jumps to conclusions too fast. Yea thats right, I don't like Rush.

[Zevico]

9/11 Changed Everything: How One Conservative Programmer Changed The World With Spambots--The Real and Classified Origins of the Robocon Phenomenon