"war on cash" name'n'shame

WoodSpring Suites, owned by Choice Hotels International, Inc., does not accept cash for a room.

Evidently someone in the management suite was inspired by all the "cashless society" hype (part of the Great Reset designed to limit plebeian freedom).

Many customers, however, prefer to use cash, for privacy, convenience, and the simple belief that cash is money.

about those -- emdashes

Some authors -- for example, Robert E. Howard -- use quite a few emdashes in their writing. This blog uses two hyphens surrounded by single spaces -- like this -- making it harder for bad browsers to turn the emdash into an endash -- or worse, a single hyphen.

Of course, an ebook reader is a browser and it's essentially reading -- or misreading -- html.

Many publishers think you can just scan a print book and let algorithms fix all the little nuances. The result is text that looks like this:

Some authors-for example, Robert E. Howard-use quite a few emdashes in their writing. This blog uses two hyphens surrounded by single spaces-like this-making it harder for bad browsers to turn the emdash into an endash-or worse, a single hyphen.

Of course, an ebook reader is a browser and it's essentially reading-or misreading-html.

Random House Publishing Group (Del Rey) is one of those publishers, and its epub version of The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard is frighteningly -- difficult to read.