Books! Actual books!


"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"
-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"
-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"
-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"
-- Entertainment Weekly

"Snappy and informative"
-- Associated Press

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."
-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."
-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

"A surprisingly intimate, entertaining book."
-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

"Funny, enlightening -- and just might help you win a million bucks on Jeopardy!"
-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."
-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

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“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”
Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."
New York Observer

"Only Bob could make a user’s guide to our increasingly hostile world this absorbing, this breezy, and—ultimately—this hopeful.”
Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING. A gimlet-eyed look at the world we endure that’s also suitable for enjoying with a gimlet.”
John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart


"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."
Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review
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Victoire! Print E-mail
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Polls
Sunday, 31 October 2004

Who will Bush eventually scapegoat for the 380 tons of missing explosives?
The French
333   49%
 
Massachusetts liberals
153   22.5%
 
Gays and lesbians
110   16.2%
 
Trial lawyers
84   12.4%
 

Number of Voters  :  680
First Vote  :  Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:12
Last Vote  :  Monday, 01 November 2004 00:17

New poll at left.


 
More fraud in my hometown Print E-mail
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Voting & Debates
Sunday, 31 October 2004
From Kos, further wrongdoing in my small-town Ohio boyhood home

Man, if it's happening there, it's probably happening everywhere.  Much of which the article also describes.


 
The post-Vietnam insanity that led to Abu Ghraib Print E-mail
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Iraq
Sunday, 31 October 2004
Reading the British papers while I'm here... a great piece on the psychotic mindset of the people behind psywar tactics, including some used at Abu Ghraib, in the Guardian Weekend magazine:

What is the wall mostly made up of, he thinks. Atoms! All I have to do is merge the spaces. The wall is an illusion.

Then General Stubblebine bangs his nose hard on the wall of his office.

He is confounded by his continual failure to walk through his wall. There is no doubt in his mind that the ability to pass through objects will one day be a common tool in the intelligence-gathering arsenal. And when that happens, well, is it too naive to believe it would herald the dawning of a world without war? Who would want to screw around with an army that could do that?

You would not believe how insane the U.S. looks to the rest of the world right now.  Whatever you imagine, it's worse.  Way worse.



 
President Diebold wins Print E-mail
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Polls
Sunday, 31 October 2004

How will Ohio Republicans try to disenfranchise Democrats?
We'll know when President Diebold takes office
218   41%
 
Cincinnati cops in every black precinct in the state
154   28.9%
 
Requiring registrations to be written on large stone tablets
128   24.1%
 
Forcing Democrats to watch reruns of Browns, Indians, and Cavs playoff games
32   6%
 

Number of Voters  :  532
First Vote  :  Friday, 29 October 2004 22:28
Last Vote  :  Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:52

New poll on the left...


 
Electoral Fraud Comes To My Hometown Print E-mail
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Voting & Debates
Saturday, 30 October 2004
I grew up in Mentor, Ohio, the largest town in Lake County.  It's as Norman Rockwell as any American city could be.

And via Salon, I learn that somebody is telling Kerry voters that their registrations are illegal.  The article also acts like there's some sort of mystery about who's responsible.

Gee.  Who could this possibly be...?

I can't believe this is the country I grew up in.  I mean, I know it always had its problems.  But this... this is new.


 
How Bush's Turn To Iraq Kept Osama A Free Man Print E-mail
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Bush
Thursday, 28 October 2004
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Found this lovely timeline at TopDog04.com, courtesy of a Kos diary.  Says it all.


 
How To React To The Osama Tape Print E-mail
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Voting & Debates
Friday, 29 October 2004
Simple.

The Democrats just have to pour every last dollar into airing the footage of George W. Bush saying "I don't know where Bin Laden is.  I have no idea and really don't care.  It's not that important.  It's not our priority." 

Over and over and over.  Game, set, match.

UPDATE: This ad should be everywhere.  Everywhere.  "I truly am not concerned about him."  And you can email the link, of course...