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"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

Main

Activism

Date	Item Title
Tuesday, 29 July 2008	Momentum 2008: Thinking Out Loud
Sunday, 27 July 2008	Slowing Momentum
Monday, 21 July 2008	Monday morning Momentum
Wednesday, 16 July 2008	Gathering Momentum
Wednesday, 21 November 2007	Tim Kazurinsky on the WGA Strike
Sunday, 18 November 2007	WGA Strike: a Voice of Experience
Wednesday, 07 November 2007	The Writers' Strike Fully Explained in Under Four Minutes
Monday, 05 November 2007	Two-Four-Six-Eight! We'll Make This Rhyme When You Pay Us a Fair Share Of DVD and Download Revenue!
Friday, 21 September 2007	Today is the UN International Day of Peace
Monday, 21 May 2007	Ohio Congressman tries to survive on food stamps
Sunday, 10 September 2006	Silence
Wednesday, 31 May 2006	Java quake: more ways you can help
Monday, 29 May 2006	You can help the folks in Indonesia
Monday, 10 October 2005	Recall the Gropenator
Thursday, 25 August 2005	And while we're helping out Kenya...
Thursday, 18 August 2005	Kenya needs a welding shop
Friday, 12 August 2005	Hugging Cindy Sheehan
Sunday, 22 May 2005	The GOP goes nuclear on Tuesday
Wednesday, 18 May 2005	It begins
Wednesday, 11 May 2005	Swing state readers: it's up to you
Friday, 29 April 2005	Hope
Thursday, 07 April 2005	David Horowitz is finally engaged on his own intellectual level
Monday, 28 March 2005	Earthshaking news again... dammit
Monday, 24 January 2005	Not every member of Congress is a polished liar
Wednesday, 19 January 2005	Social Security: There Is No Crisis
Monday, 17 January 2005	What Would Martin Luther King Do?
Wednesday, 05 January 2005	A completely ordinary set of pictures
Wednesday, 05 January 2005	Two things I saw in Australia
Wednesday, 29 December 2004	$35 million
Sunday, 26 December 2004	How to help folks on the wrong end of a tsunami
Friday, 12 November 2004	No child left behind?
Tuesday, 09 November 2004	Feel Like Screaming?
Monday, 08 November 2004	Your assignment for today
Monday, 08 November 2004	Wrestling With A Gorilla
Thursday, 04 November 2004	WWMLKD?
Tuesday, 19 October 2004	30 Seconds Of Liberal Pride
Tuesday, 19 October 2004	London: Massive War Protest

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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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