re: #140 Killgore Trout

The star wars guys had their own booth for something

Hey, reading captions is fun!

Kasey Darling of the Charles Koch Institute poses for photographs with people dressed as characters from Star Wars used to promote author Travis Brown’s ‘How Money Walks’ at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center March 7, 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland.

If they’re promoting a book, they owe Disney a licensing fee. You can’t just use branded people in order to promote whatever, or else everyone would be doing it. I don’t get what you’re not grasping about this incredibly simple goddamn concept.

Maybe ABC is wrong and these people just wandered in and wandered around and weren’t, as it very clearly says, promoting this book. I doubt it, though, and when you use trademarked characters to promote something commercial, you pay for that privilege.

Even for your levels of trollish obtuseness, this is a new height. Depth? Which direction does obtuseness go?