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I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! / Al Franken
26 June 2006 – 11:36 am
During my days in the recovery movement I ran into a lot of people like Stuart Smalley, the ostensible author of Al Franken’s semi-parody of that same movement. Stuart Smalley is an indecisive spineless man with no sense of self-esteem. Supposedly a book of daily affirmations, it’s more a diary. And over the course of the year’s worth of entries, Stuart gets better and more in control of his life. Which is why I label it a semi-parody. (…)
Lies / Al Franken
5 June 2006 – 7:16 pm
This is actually my second reading of Al Franken’s book Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them). I was shuffling my books around and got into reading this again.
Al Franken is funny, and puts up some pretty convincing information about the Republican and mainstream media smear machine. Though my thought is he plays up the right wing’s involvement to the detriment of the culpability of supposedly unbiased folks like C.N.N. and the Washington Post. (…)
The I Hate Republicans Reader / Clint Willis ed.
15 December 2005 – 4:00 pm
Another pick-up from the Friends of the Seattle Public Library September book sale. Now, I’m decently liberal, but I tend not to like a lot of what passes for liberal media these days. A lot of it is all about how conservatives and Republicans are evil: how they lie, what kinds of dirty tricks they pull, etc. I don’t disagree with that assessment, but I’d really rather read substantive media. (…)
