Marie Arana profiles the two writers who were the “driving personalities” in the recent Google settlement with the book industry in a Washington Post blog entry that oddly absents itself from any aspect of critical thinking or reportorial analysis, such as, say, the simple observation that we are witnessing the commercialization of something that used to be free — that is, the public service known as the library. According to Arana, “everybody wins” in the settlement started by authors Joe Goulden and Paul Dickson. Dickson says now that, “This suit began in anger but, in the end, everyone benefits. It’s a great day for writers and, by extension, readers who will now be able to download books, albeit for a fee.” Completely missing that last clause, Arana concludes: “Perhaps you, like me, imagined that this was a bloodless affair played out between two modern-day institutions. In truth, it turns out to have been an old story: A couple of Davids went up against Goliath. The Davids won. But so did Goliath. Not to mention the Israelites and Philistines, too.”