The Global Effort to Eradicate Know-nothings is activating its Irregulars to engage in an important grassroots campaign in the ongoing Culture Wars. Each of you is to buy a copy of Jon Katz’s new book, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho (or check your local bookstore). Read it. And then make everyone you know (non-negotiable: everyone) buy it and read it for themselves. Do not loan out your copies. Make them purchase their own (the existence of the sales is important). This is the book. Katz has always been the Voice between geek culture and the outside world (and is, of course, the Patron Saint of GEEK Force), but most people don’t want to read pontifications. This is a story, a true one, of two kids (mainly one, Jesse) who, as the title says, rode the Internet out of Idaho. It’s the weapon we haven’t had in the ongoing Culture Wars for too long. And you will for the rest of your life remember having gotten to be part of Jesse’s life through this book. This is not a request. This is an order from GEEK Force HQ.

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