BobHarris.com - Maybe I should call it "Poll of The Month"

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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Maybe I should call it "Poll of The Month"

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Sunday, 03 July 2005

Because that's how long this one was up... my bad. Busy with life. Book deal. Traveling. Etc.

If the damn media still worked, which insider would have already Deep Throated the Bush White House?

National Security Advisor Richard Clarke

712

36.7%

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

156

Ambassador Joe Wilson

114

5.9%

Mining engineer Jack Spedaro

110

5.7%

U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki

108

5.6%

USAF Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski

107

5.5%

Army Spc. Joseph Darby

106

5.5%

FBI Chief Division Counsel Coleen Rowley

106

5.5%

FBI translator Sibel Edmonds

106

5.5%

CIA Bin Laden expert Michael Scheuer

105

5.4%

Medicare actuary Richard Foster

105

5.4%

Secretary of the Army Thomas White

105

5.4%

If you're curious who these people are, those names are all active links, incidentally. Although now we learn that Karl Rove himself may be the guy who manages to undo this White House. If only.

New poll at upper left.