“That’s a lot of nonsense to pack into one paragraph.”

“That’s a lot of nonsense to pack into one paragraph.”  I read Foer's piece on the need to stop Amazon, and I had several simultaneous urges: to beat my head against a concrete wall, to smack him upside the head with a nice hard object (a sledge hammer would do nicely), and to write a rebuttal of it.  The latter seemed a bit overwhelming, as there was so much that needed rebutting.  But now I see that David Post has saved me the work, by doing a fine job himself.  The leading quote is from his piece...