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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

Books I'm Getting

Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“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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Polls

Date	Item Title
Wednesday, 05 July 2006	See, they played it like that
Monday, 26 June 2006	Curiously, the public is not yet willing to call them "opera monkeys"
Tuesday, 20 June 2006	Capitalizing on tragedy, literally: it's the Halliburton way
Monday, 19 June 2006	Ken Mehlman squeezed by Karl Rove
Sunday, 18 June 2006	Doctors may attempt to surgically remove Joe Lieberman's lips from George W. Bush's whatever
Friday, 16 June 2006	Plagiarists Long Past Self Parody: tomorrow's right-wing bestseller, today
Thursday, 15 June 2006	Polls are back; Ann Coulter, performance artist
Wednesday, 05 April 2006	Apparently 2000 guys still wouldn't have been enough
Tuesday, 28 February 2006	Gunshots to the face will make us stronger
Monday, 13 February 2006	This just in: nine percent of this site's readers are objectively pro-birdshot
Thursday, 02 February 2006	Many people say the first two are the same thing, actually
Friday, 27 January 2006	Apparently "Catwoman" was never distributed to Peshawar
Thursday, 15 December 2005	Dick Cheney, vampire
Saturday, 19 November 2005	Bush to opponents: "You are all binge-drinkers!"
Monday, 14 November 2005	Armed Robbery: OK when the GOP does it
Wednesday, 26 October 2005	Karl Rove getting pardoned: twice as annoying as Paris Hilton continuing to exist
Thursday, 20 October 2005	Accidental Actual Job-Doing: The Surest Sign That The Monkey King Is Off His Game
Tuesday, 18 October 2005	Apple needs to talk with Patrick Fitzgerald
Friday, 14 October 2005	Next in a long line of barfing president Bushes
Friday, 23 September 2005	The free market as antiviral medicine
Monday, 19 September 2005	Vox populi: drowning CEOs bad for Bush
Tuesday, 13 September 2005	The merest grip on reality must be stopped
Friday, 09 September 2005	Base-ten math is an agent of Satan!
Monday, 22 August 2005	Karl Rove beats Tourette's-afflicted weasel for coveted CNN post
Friday, 05 August 2005	Red faces and replacement heads
Tuesday, 02 August 2005	Yes, But How Did We Leave Out Slander?
Friday, 29 July 2005	Jeff Gannon v. Sheer Damn Creepiness: a difficult choice
Friday, 15 July 2005	Prophetic, really...
Sunday, 03 July 2005	Maybe I should call it "Poll of The Month"
Thursday, 02 June 2005	Killings and torture give us gas; also, how many Deep Throats does it take?
Monday, 16 May 2005	Kansas, where the gene pool has no pump
Friday, 06 May 2005	Yes, but the constitution doesn't always have a happy ending
Friday, 29 April 2005	But then what would he eat at Thanksgiving?
Friday, 22 April 2005	Cocaine beats Laura and the twins
Friday, 08 April 2005	The U.S. dollar: let it burn
Monday, 04 April 2005	Also, because the Iranians killed Terri Schiavo
Friday, 01 April 2005	Simple arithmetic: enemy of all that is good and decent
Friday, 25 March 2005	The people have spoken: torture beats cluster bombs
Thursday, 17 March 2005	Closest voting ever underway
Wednesday, 16 March 2005	And here I was sure the vampire theory was right
Thursday, 03 March 2005	People being blown to bits win again
Tuesday, 01 March 2005	I sure hope the FBI knows about this Alberto Gonzales guy
Monday, 28 February 2005	All readers 65 and over please report to the Home Depot parking lot in Pomona
Tuesday, 22 February 2005	Lead Paint And Asbestos Narrowly Defeat Hexavalent Chromium
Sunday, 13 February 2005	Next year by this time, Fox will be handing out "Gannon Awards"
Tuesday, 08 February 2005	FDR wins! (If only that could really be true again...)
Wednesday, 02 February 2005	Pink Panther Tops George of the Jungle, Flying Squirrel, and Small Boy In Knickers, Simultaneously
Friday, 21 January 2005	But why does Martin Luther King hate freedom?
Monday, 17 January 2005	Maybe Bush is hiding it in Syria...
Friday, 14 January 2005	Death squads: they're not just for Iraq anymore

Maverick, Schmaverick ( 5 items )
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Pudu ( 148 items )
This site's mascot, the pudu (actual species name: pudu pudu) is the world's tiniest deer, a two-foot-tall little ungulate with big wide eyes and a body that resembles a Vienna sausage balanced on four wobbly toothpicks.

Imagine a full-grown deer whose nose is at the height of your shins, peering up at you timidly and hoping you might give it a mulberry leaf to chew. That's a pudu.

Pudus have no natural defenses to speak of. When threatened, pudus usually try to find a log to hide behind or possibly climb. This works about as well as it sounds like. Overall, they're endangered and they look like they know it.

Not surprisingly, pudus are losing their habitat, like lots of wonderful species are. So enjoy them while they're here.

PS -- Pudus aren't really from Peru; they're from Chile and Argentina. But those don't rhyme with "pudu" as well as "Perudu."
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