Ridiculous, but kinda funny.

I was totally oblivious to the kerfuffle over Dinesh D'Souza's accusations that Costco and Google where somehow trying to depress the success of his recent movie and book America (due to their liberal political leanings, I guess) until I read this Seattle Times article. D'Souza's suggestions sound pretty flimsy, and his cover art appears to have burst straight out of the mind of Michael Bay, but I did enjoy David Weigel's recent Slate piece about the controversy, which points out that D'Souza has successfully managed to make his project the #1 Google result for the word "America" (on Bing, it's the Wikipedia article on the United States).