There was a time—ever so briefly—when Pat Tillman dominated the news cycle. Actually, there were two times: one, when the football semi-star joined the military and become a posterboy for patriotism and self-sacrifice, and another when he died via friendly fire, becoming yet another It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World story in a [...]
It occurred to me recent that I’ve read and reviewed Al Franken’s 2005 The Truth (With Jokes) three times since the start of this meme (1, 2, 3), but never its predecessor, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, which is arguably an even better book. Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly hates Media Matters, a [...]
I read this book once in 2005 when it came out, and then again in 2006. As this is my third time reading The Truth (With Jokes) since this meme began, it holds a record (as of now) as my most frequently-read book in the 52 Books in 52 Weeks meme. Why read it a [...]
I hadn’t even been aware that Al Gore had written a book; we all know him, of course, as the human klaxon for global warming, but he’s apparently been busy writing a book that’s not at all about climate change. The George W. Bush presidency has inspired not a few polemics, rivaled perhaps only by [...]
When Molly Ivins passed away last year, I realized that I knew her only by a very vague name association (I’d seen her name on a couple of anti-Bush books) and the commentary she did for a documentary about purchasing (illegal) dildos in Texas: funny stuff, even if hearing steadfast liberalism with a Texas twang [...]
Alternatively, read the PDF format Several weeks ago, the War in Iraq entered its fourth year—despite the official “end of major combat” that the codpiece-sporting President announced mere months after it began—and the steady sectarian violence pursuant to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party shows no encouraging signs of abatement. It has been a [...]
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