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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

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Tuesday, 08 February 2005

I'm still too busy to post much for a while, so here are a few recent things you might find interesting from elsewhere:

The WP denounces Bush's budget as "breathtaking" -- as either farce or tragedy. As to Bush's various promises to cut the deficit in half, the LA Times finds it just ain't in the numbers.

Steve Rendall has an interesting new piece on the history of the Fairness Doctrine and how it was killed. FAIR also has a review of the how higher-ups at the New York Times spiked their own reporters' major investigation into the electronic cueing device which likely caused the "Bush bulge" -- just days before the election.

Mother Jones reports on the continuing impact of U.S. bombing on Iraqi civilians, including eyewitness reports of the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. (If true, this is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Not that anyone bothers with such things anymore.)

Also at MoJo: an interview with Terry Jones of Monty Python, who now writes frequent scathing op-ed pieces for the Guardian.

Last week, Bush appointed convicted perjurer, Plame-leak figure, and Iran-Contra defendant Elliot Abrams to be his deputy national security advisor. (Abrams' conviction, incidentally, was scrubbed by Bush's dad.) So that's nice.

Scott McConnell's Hunger For Dictatorship from The American Conservative and Bill Moyer's column There Is No Tomorrow are disturbingly similar glimpses, written from two very different perspectives, of where Team Chimpy are leading us.

And finally, just for fun, here's Ann Coulter wrongly insisting to a Canadian TV interviewer, over and over, that Canada sent troops to Vietnam.

(Last three links via Cursor.)