SMART BOOKS

Bay Area readers are too smart to bother reading Sarah Palin's Going Rogue:

“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”

So what do they read? Here’s a selection of some of the non-drively, thinky-type books Mr. Embretson carries at his store, per the Pendragon Books website:

Jim Marrs, Inside Job: Unmasking the 9-11 Conspiracies

Ward Churchill, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality

Van Jones, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

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

William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist

Mark Rudd, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen

Lyndon H. Larouche, Cold Fusion: Challenge to U.S. Science Policy

Ah, yes, the reality-based community.