rok
09-25-2004, 09:20 PM
not only does it poke enough fun at politics as a whole and both sides of our supposed due process system (enough that i have to think even the most distant-wing folks here could find something to laugh out loud at), but the layout is also pure brilliance. it's assembled in the same style as a social studies textbook, with enough pie charts, graphs and entire acres of history condensed into three sentence quips to make even the most attention-deficit of us know why warren g harding was the worst president ever (seriously. i mean, f*ck him -- inside joke for those who have read it, for some of the humor-impaired around here). it is great to read through, BUT works even better as a coffee table book you can simply open up and read a few pages and put back down.
sure, some of the jokes fall flat, simply because they don't have some of the daily show members' super-deadpan delivery behind them, but a lot do work (the life of a democracy, and the two-page pixelated spread on the presidential library are two current favorites).
at least thumb through it on your next trip to borders/barnes & noble/wherever.
sure, some of the jokes fall flat, simply because they don't have some of the daily show members' super-deadpan delivery behind them, but a lot do work (the life of a democracy, and the two-page pixelated spread on the presidential library are two current favorites).
at least thumb through it on your next trip to borders/barnes & noble/wherever.