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Batshit is sane and rational compared to the US tax code.

Some Golden-age writer, perhaps Futrelle, gave us a murder in which the corpse was deep-frozen in liquid CO2 and pulverized in that state.  What was left could easily be washed down the sewers, and with no DNA testing available, there was no proof he'd ever been there.

I do care what happens to the Eurocrats ... and to whom they happen.  People whose consciences are happy with them in such jobs are capable of great harm.  I do believe they should have a chance at personal redemption, perhaps as day laborers, or as small businessmen under their own laws, or as waitstaff in a place where they must survive on tips--and thus on earned goodwill.

The modern Royals have had power taken from them, to the point where they lack any Practical Wisdom in its use (the current Monarch being the best of them by far).  The Eurocrats were given more and more power over others, and never called to task for the costs they inflicted on others.

I said it on the other thread:
The EU has fundamental problems in a currency union that is effectively run by the least responsible states and a system of laws growing at the behest of the most prolific bureaucrats.  If they fix those problems, they still have their self-defense problems: what to defend, against whom, who is to do it, and who is to pay?
It's worth fixing the problems, but is it worth trying to fix them?  John Bull seems to say not.

The EU has fundamental problems in a currency union that is effectively run by the least responsible states and a system of laws growing at the behest of the most prolific bureaucrats.  If they fix those problems, they still have their self-defense problems: what to defend, against whom, who is to do it, and who is to pay?

It's worth fixing the problems, but is it worth trying to fix them?  John Bull seems to say not.

Alternate new chapters with revisions, then

Yes.

And you wonder why we want to rip up the income tax system?  I'm not sure it's a comfort, but it's ten times worse for businesses, who often have to pay tax on money they haven't received.

Ever wonder why game shows that give away merchandise always give some cash with the jackpot prizes?  It's because the IRS has to be paid, and that 'spending money for your trip!' is there so you'll be able to pay it and collect your prizes.

Maybe instead of changing your main page, you put up a page for the books (or one for each series?) that has the book info without the Amazon links?  You could even title the pages For Booksellers.  Then you give that link out in mail to them.

I don't do Facebook, so I don't know what the message looked like, but I have to sympathize with the storeowner.  Even if it wasn't your intent, if The Big Market-Eater's link did end up on her page, it was not to her advantage.

Her reaction might have been more measured ... but we don't know what she would have *liked* to say.

And if she'd just deleted the link and not sent the message, it would have been no favor to you.  Next time, you can send the book info without the link that could take someone to Godzilla Retail.

At least once a lesson, someone would find an error in the monstrous formulae that Professor Knapp copied onto the blackboard.  His response, unfailing and sincere, was 'Oh ... Thank you.'  That seemed to me the right answer then, and it still does.

C.S. Lewis addresses this whole issue in The Abolition of Man.  In part 2, he writes of people who, having discovered a single moral principle, use it to attack the rest of the fabric without which that principle cannot stand.