Universities including Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve experimented last year with allowing students to use Amazon’s Kindle for textbooks. It was just a pilot program but if it managed to fly just about everybody would have saved money, time and aggravation, and of course many fewer trees would have been destroyed.
Well one of the many groups in this country dedicated to scratching the scabs off of grievances filed a complaint with the Justice Department citing the American with Disabilities Act and claimed the policy violated the civil rights of the blind.
The DoJ is now run by Barack Obama and Eric Holder. So, did it direct the universities make certain that the textbooks be also available in Braille or audiotape? Did it postpone action in lieu of Amazon’s promises to make the Kindle more accessible to the blind?
Of course not. It squashed it, as they might say, como una cucaracha.
If only Amazon had been smart enough to grab a nightstick, put on a beret and make racially disparaging remarks outside a Philadelphia polling place.