I spend way too much time reading. I love books; I love the looks of them. I love the feel of them and I love the smell of them. One book I started reading is Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber, by Andy Borowitz. This book is not for the light-hearted. It is deep and detailed.
It concerns the last fifty years or so of foolish politicians (Republicans and Democrats). This is too much wit and satire for one book. It starts with Nixon. I did not know a lot about politics then. Another good president is Ray-Gun. Good to make fun of, that is. (Excuse the ending in a preposition.)
I started to become interested when Double Downer became president in 2016. I walked around dumbstruck with my mouth open. Around this time, my best friend Gael (that doesn’t mean I’m her best friend) had used gentle peer pressure to get me to vote. Before that I didn’t think I knew enough about politics to cast any vote.
Before this I was so averse to history. I think I got my worst high school grade in History with P.J.: a B-. In college I thought political science was an oxymoron. But D.D. astounded me so much I started reading books about him. A few books I read to the end were: Betrayal, by Jonathan Karl, Anonymous, by Miles Taylor as well as Steven Hassan’s The Cult of Trump. When I didn’t even know the other names of politicians, my friends were nice enough not to laugh at me.
That’s why I liked reading about Nixon and Ray-Gun in the first part of this book. This was new to me. But I had to stop reading about a quarter of the way through this current book because there is just too much wit in this book. The cleverness gets diluted.
So right now I am going to move on to a couple other books from the library. This method is free and also delivered to my hot little mitts by Craig.
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