BobHarris.com - Blog Index

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

Main

American Culture & Other Scary Things

Date	Item Title
Thursday, 04 October 2007	Ronald Reagan: Outspoken, Angry Democrat
Thursday, 14 June 2007	Reality always catches up with satire
Thursday, 24 May 2007	A putz, a few nuts, and lots of spilled guts
Tuesday, 08 May 2007	The Wholly Bobble
Thursday, 28 December 2006	So Nixon had to be pardoned
Wednesday, 27 December 2006	Speaking ill of the dead
Tuesday, 15 August 2006	The main reason we have troops in Iraq (while Osama is two countries to the east)
Monday, 31 July 2006	Home, sort of
Friday, 14 April 2006	Tempers flare between two all-dwarf KISS tribute bands
Saturday, 19 November 2005	We should hold off on celebrating
Friday, 13 May 2005	Why Nazi references are so, so unfair
Tuesday, 10 May 2005	These holy warriors would kick Jesus' sweet pansy ass
Tuesday, 19 April 2005	Touching people's lives in a meaningful way
Thursday, 14 April 2005	The Internet We Stand As One
Wednesday, 13 April 2005	The Greatest Music Video Ever... Remixed
Friday, 08 April 2005	The single greatest music video ever made
Wednesday, 06 April 2005	Doomed Tourism: a possible growth industry
Wednesday, 30 March 2005	Whose side are we on, anyway? Certainly not our own...
Tuesday, 01 March 2005	It all depends on how you define "international community"
Friday, 18 February 2005	Inappropriate touching scorecard
Sunday, 13 February 2005	And we wonder how we get a reputation...
Sunday, 13 February 2005	Fun With U.S. History
Wednesday, 22 December 2004	Fox itself are the ones trying to destroy Christmas...
Sunday, 12 December 2004	Utah news: people disfellowshipped, buried alive, and dangling
Friday, 03 December 2004	The very first U.S. media I saw on returning
Tuesday, 30 November 2004	Heading home
Wednesday, 24 November 2004	"The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off" and other things noticed in the UK
Saturday, 20 November 2004	Something I love about Los Angeles... and America
Tuesday, 16 November 2004	Amend For Arnold... and Jen?
Friday, 12 November 2004	Enter the Eco chamber
Wednesday, 10 November 2004	One fine day
Tuesday, 09 November 2004	This morning's first headline
Wednesday, 03 November 2004	We are where we are
Saturday, 30 October 2004	A London Observer
Saturday, 16 October 2004	Even baseball is scaring me these days

Maverick, Schmaverick ( 6 items )
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El Sur ( 7 items )
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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