The Kansas City Star is going to send all of its subscribers a special Thanksgiving issue and charge them $2 for it — whether they’ve asked for it or not. (The normal price of their Thursday paper is 75 cents.) People who don’t normally get the Thursday paper will get one and be charged $2 for it — again, regardless of whether they’ve agreed to buy the product.

I rather like this business model and immediately will suggest to Jack Fowler that every resident of Earth be sent a copy of National Review (cover price $3.95) regardless of whether said earthling has in fact ordered the magazine. With the $26,860,000,000 or so in new revenue that endeavor will generate, Mr. Fowler will have no excuse not to give me a hefty raise — and a $1 billion bonus. This is pure genius, and the folks in Kansas City should immediate be awarded the Nobel Prize for Innovations in Fleecing the Reading Public.