Going Rogue "too dumb" for SF stores, but psychedelic space travel is smart

Pajamas Media's David Steinberg links to a San Freaksicko Chronicle quote from a really "smart" bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland on his reason for not stocking Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue:

"Our customers are thinking people. They’re not into reading drivel."

So if former Governor Palin's book is "drivel," what does Pendragon's proprietor consider to be literary brilliance? Steinberg checked some of the weighty tomes in the Pendragon inventory and found:

Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies (Paperback)

"Those who regularly navigate the hyperspatial landscape that some have called the ‘tryptamine dimension’ have long suspected that the portals to inner and outer space may be one and the same. This book, a collaboration of the most cutting-edge shaman/neuroscientists working in this field, boldly explores this concept in a stunning tour de force."

Wow, open my third eye, Mickey. I'm flying to Pluto tonight!

Also in stock is a volume located in the Consiracy Nutcase section which is...

"...the definitive journalistic account of the hidden role of the Bush Whitehouse (sic) in perpetrating the 9/11 attacks."

Deep-thinking Pendragon patrons can also briefly satisfy their blood lust for the "people of the Book" with paperbacks by self-admitted "white separatist" Valdas Anelauskas and Obama buddy Rashid Khalidi. Those thoughtful books must be in the "Blame The Joooos" section.

Moving on to the the "Hate America First" section of the store, there are books by mad bomber Marxist Bill Ayers (another Obama bud), Mark Rudd and Ward Churchill, the latter of whom called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns." Over in the Real (Not Junk!) Science section, picky Pendragon browsers will come across a Lyndon Larouche volume on cold fusion.

Good thing the "thinking people" who frequent Pendragon don't want to read any "drivel" by Sarah Palin, though...

- JP