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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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I cannot turn my back for even one week

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Friday, 28 April 2006

Home from Tobago (about which more shortly), I go online today to peek at what I've missed, and holy crap -- this government's constant lurch into a lunatic parody of a corrupt third-world regime remains unstoppable:

About $4 billion in Iraq war spending "could not be tracked," although the war party illegally hijacked $2.5 billion to prep for the Iraq war while Bush was claiming he was still seeking peace. Meanwhile, after the deadliest month so far this year in Iraq -- a war that is supposedly going to stop terrorism, remember -- we find a worldwide three-fold explosion in terrorism.

Didn't see it much on CNN or Fox, but a bipartisan Senate investigation has just blamed Bush -- by name -- for a delay in the response to Katrina.

But there's sure plenty of noise from the usual morons about people who love this country wanting to sing the anthem in Spanish. Lo siento que tan muchas idiotas en mi país tengan miedo de cualquier gentes que tengan piel más oscura que Bill O'Reilly.

Oh, and a bunch of GOP bigshots have apparently been running a hookers-for-favors ring for the last 15 years.

Wow.

How will Team Chimpy explain this? Simple. Just hire a Fox News liar as the new spokesman.

I guess I have my answers for the poll that has been at upper left for so long...