What BOOK are you reading right now?

What a strange and charming statement.
What is unique about America is that many of its citizens are so ignorant about other countries they can make statements such as that without blushing, and expect to be taken seriously.

Brilliant isn't it? There's a new one out that I'm going to treat myself to 'Thud' I think it's called.

not so much reading as mmmmmm looking

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No insult intended McTag. My statement may not be 100% accurate but it is very close. That is just the way it is.

Our money goes much further here than yours does there. As a consequence, we are much happier people. I didn't invent this you know? :wink:

McTag I do believe you have hit it! American exceptionalism is in the makeup of many here. Can't understand it myself, but it is rampant.

I am reading "Chain of Command...From 9/11 to Abu Ghuraib" by Seymour Hersch. Reading it and understanding it will give new insights on "American Exceptionalism."

Damn right America is the best!! Well Ireland and England have great beer and Scotland has great golf courses and Brazil has great beaches...

I don't understand the elitism associated with America or the Americans that purport it. Every country, city, town has their faults and attractions.

Oh back to topic I am struggling through Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and reading Bag of Bones by SK.

I enjoy Seymour he does some wonderful investigative reporting. His columns in The New Yorker are among my favorites. I am able to separate facts from titillation.

People that know little about the circumstances other than what they read in newspapers and hear on network news find Seymour very exciting and of course titillating to the max. :wink:

We just can't help it. It was America's Finest Generation that did it I guess.

You know, those Americans that pulled Europe's behind out of eternal damnation? :wink:

(oh stop it Jack, enough! )

Yeah-I would too.Jingoism isn't very human.

I think I was unnecessarily rude, and I apologise for it.
It does no real harm that Americans believe they live in the greatest country on God's green earth, fine. It's a place I like to visit, and like a lot.

According the The Economist, the world's happiest people are the Filipinos, whose money is scarce and lives beset by corruption and natural disasters. Other surveys have picked the Danes and the Nigerians.

finally cracking open Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - with more lies! and new lying liars! - a fair and balanced look at the right, Al Franken

seems like it'll be best read in little bits, between other books

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh Beth, Al Franken? Did he publish the book too?

Oh what an unfunny person Al Franken is. His fans must all live together in cave somewhere. I get around and I have yet to meet ANYONE that cares at all for Al Franken humor. Including Democrats.
He's worse than Conan O'Brien. :wink:

Conan and Al's wit is too sharp for some people. Both graduated from Harvard. Both worked for SNL. Maybe you're just missing the punchlines.

Thats how I read it Beth. I'ts hard to read all that nastiness in one sitting. Especially when it's true.

But your behind, he's already got a new one.

What about my behind?


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Yeah, I know there's another one - but I don't pay retail for any political tome.

I forgot about that. Their mad if they think i'm going to pay that much for paper. Besides browsing through a used book store with 6$ is ten times better then browsing through a new book store with 20$

Al Franken
I just read Al Franken's new book, "The Truth" and it is very good. I guess if you are not of the liberal persuasion, you wouldn't think it was funny. Maybe you have to be from Minnesota?

I just read Al Franken's new book, "The Truth" and it is very good. I guess if you are not of the liberal persuasion, you wouldn't think it was funny. Maybe you have to be from Minnesota? (Posted by Vietamnurse)

I still remember how much I was looking forward to listening to Garrison Keillor only to find out how awful he was.

It brought to memory the old women (fortyish) whose great event of the week was the Saturday Morning Walking Club. Then they would bake on Saturday afternoon, go to church on Sunday.

Imagine.

And since I heard that Bill O'Reilly went to Harvard I don't think much of Harvard any more and it just proves to me that Yale is and always was the place to go if your parents could get you in there.

I know of no Yale men that are in the entertainment business. I do know one that is President of the United States though. :wink:

I'm reading a Salmon of Doubt - by Douglas Adams, published posthumothly (is that spelled right?).