That's why the Calgary Airport decided to ditch their accessible parking spots for people with disabilities in favor of branded Lexus spots. Unfortunately that kind of thing doesn't turn a profit. There are some wonderful human traits, such as kindness, decency, empathy, and caring about the physical wellbeing of others. It's politically-correct-correctness culture gone awry. Now, in addition to memes and jokes, people are also attacking ESPN for being 'overly sensitive,' the irony of which they wouldn't notice even if it were a neon lion eating their face. He wasn't fired or shoved into a pit of ravenous 'politically correct' hyenas.īut if there is a way to be terrible, the internet will find it. It was about the reasonable possibility that because of his name he would be subjected to memes and jokes and who knows what else,' said ESPN, also stating that Robert Lee was asked (not forced) and agreed to switch games. Turns out, ESPN knows that the internet is the gross, hair-clogged drain of society, and anticipated that the young announcer would be the target of memes and jokes about his name. When people heard the headline, 'ESPN removes announcer Robert Lee' because his name sounds like the confederate general, there was a cacophony of people crying 'snowflakes,' 'stupid offended people,' 'PC culture gone awry,' 'ESPN is literally Satan incarnate,' etc. Because according to the book sellers, every time this guy called a bulk order of Handbook, he made sure the bookstore reported their sales to the New York Times. In fact, that penny is now careening towards the cold outreaches of the solar system. That is, until you find out that he is alleged to be the mystery caller ordering bulk books from stores. except some dude named Thomas, who is also starring and producing, but whose name bears no significance.

And guess who's starring as the main character, 'Zade?' That's right, the author! And who else? Nobody.

But Phil Stamper did a little digging, and found that not only was it out of stock on Amazon, but no Barns and Nobles stores in his area offered physical copies of the book, an unusual occurrence for bestsellers.Īs it turns out there's already an IMDB page for an 'in development' movie based on this book nobody's heard of.

Still, that's not enough to accuse someone of a scam. The publisher, GeekNation, has never before published a book, nor is Lani Sarem a well established writer. Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem had very little in terms of press upon its release.

He decided to look into it, and found himself tumbling down a rabbit hole of young adult novel scandal. It starts with a man, Phil Stamper, who found it odd that a brand new publisher got an unheard of book to the top of the NYT Bestseller List. This story is a euthanasia coaster of twists and turns.

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