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"A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump. Like many twentysomethings, David Litt frequently embarrassed himself in front of his boss's boss. Unlike many twentysomethings, Litt's boss's boss was President Obama. At age twenty-four, Litt became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history....
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"The host of the Fox News shows Watters World and The Five lays out the only path forward for our nation--listening to him--in this funny, offbeat book which echoes his irreverent voice"--
At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future. In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to...
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Editorial cartoonists are an endangered species, and even in their heyday they were rare birds -- at the top ranks of print journalism, only a few hundred such jobs existed worldwide in the 20th century. Yet those who wielded the drawing pen had enormous influence and popularity as they caricatured news events and newsmakers into "ink-drenched bombshells" that often said more than the accompanying news stories. Bill Sanders, working in a liberal tradition...
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New York Times Bestseller (Humor)
"The book everyone is laughing about!"—Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe
From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as “told” by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.
What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama’s own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally,
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« J'ai conçu ce pamphlet humoristique comme une catapulte à marde. J'y plonge vingt mille lieues sous les merdes pour faire remonter à la surface les monstres qui hantent nos vies. Je suis un Claude Poirier en habit d'homme-grenouille qui s'est donné pour objectif de faire chier tout le monde et, pourquoi pas, d'être invité à une émission de radio littéraire pour répondre à la question: "Fred, si vous étiez un smoothie, de quelle couleur...
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« Trouve-toi une vie »
ça veut dire
en gros
d'arrêter d'avoir un caractère de pâte à tarte
ça invite à sortir du cadre
à aller de l'avant
pis à agir au lieu de subir»
Avec son humour cru et décapant, Fabien Cloutier explore l'âme québécoise par ses expressions et ses régionalismes. « Y farme pas étanche », «Ben accoté dans' barrure », «C'est pas vargeux », « Yinque à wouèr on woé ben»... Chacune de ces formules est l'occasion...
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Linda Bowles employs caustic satire skillfully to advocate a return to the principles of common sense and human decency. The fable takes place in 2046 when political correctness has developed a chokehold on all American institutions. The Constitution-determined to be hopelessly outdated–has been banished to a museum. Fulfilling quotas of racial, gender, sexual-preference, and assorted other categories is the primordial function of every aspect of...
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The cast of characters seemed infinite in variety. Figures of monumental stature, ordinary men and women, heroes, villains, lovers and warriors, idealist, cultural icons, leaders of industry, family and friends, all appear in this looking glass of small-town politics and it's enthusiastic glam. The tale is one of rapture and regret, flashes of guilty pleasure and tearful refrain, proud achievement and embarrassing blunders. Then again, when all my...
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DONALD'S VANITY TANTRUMS
Has there ever been a more self-absorbed and narcissistic American president? From one twitter-storm to the next snit-storm, has an American leader ever exhibited such a faulty grasp of reality? And yet, a third of the electorate loves him. If he said, "jump off the cliff" they would. And, they have! No, it's not "Wag the Dog" or "1984" or "Bulworth". If only! Those are all fiction. This is, the real spectacle of democracy...
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Once upon a time, in a strange, savage land, there lived a famous actress. In this absurd country, called the United States of America, nothing was, based in reality. This performer was not much different from others in her field, as she was narcissistic and self-absorbed, but her trauma-filled past allowed her to bring something else to the table. This woman was fed by her own instability like, a dog is fed by the chicken you left out on the kitchen...
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Here's something true for almost every American. The democracy you live in today is different, completely different, than the democracy born into. Since 1980, the number of Americans legally barred from voting has more than doubled. Since the 1990s, odds of living in a competitive Congressional district have fallen by more than half. In the twenty-first century alone, the amount of money spent on Washington lobbying has increased by more than 100...
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FUNNY.
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Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty, never seem to get fixed? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't very convenient. Fortunately, radio and television host Glenn Beck doesn't care much about convenience; he cares about common sense.
Take the issue of poverty, for example. Over the last forty years, America's ten poorest...
13) The Plague and I
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"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."
Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium-making...
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When The Idler's Glossary was released in October 2008 the world was on the cusp of experiencing its greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Depending on your sense of irony, this was either foolhardy or prescient. The Wage Slave's Glossary, a second volume of anti-economic etymology, comes as we climb out of recession, and continues to explore and challenge the interconnected world of work and leisure and labor and how the language...
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"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. Mark Kingwell's introductory essay offers a playful defence of the idler as homo superior, while Joshua Glenn's glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases,...
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L'Histoire chamboulée.
Dans une France déboussolée en quête d'un sauveur, un Président très impopulaire profite de la découverte d'une biologiste de talent pour confier au héros mythique qu'elle a ressuscité le déploiement du Brevet d'Aptitude d'Intégration Nationale... (Le BAIN)
Un projet très risqué, capable de remettre le pays à flot... ou de le couler pour de bon! Une satire politique en trois actes aux alexandrins aussi délirants...
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The Revolt of Man is the satire of a female-dominated society of the 22nd century. Sir Walter Besant was a very broaden spirit, very attentive to the problems of his era, and very curious about history and politics. The Victorian era was the beginning of the Women's suffrage. He was the brother-in-law of Annie Besant, a british socialist and activist, persecuted in 1877, for her campaigns for birth control. After two children and a legal separation...
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When Drew Hastings was seven years old, his father, also named Drew Hastings, left the family, remarried, and had another son, named Drew Hastings. "Suddenly there were three Drew Hastings," Hastings writes, "me, the one who left me, and the one who replaced me." And so begins a life-long pursuit of a name, and one long, slow skid toward the realization that we're all just making it up as we go along.
The son of a single mother, Hastings picks his...
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Former vice president Joe Biden has said many things throughout his career where he has put his foot in his mouth, flat-out lied or flip-flopped on his votes, made up false stories, plagiarized, and said racist comments. Things have not changed for "Sleepy Joe" since he decided to run for president in 2020. During his run on the 2020 campaign trail, he's told people at campaign rallies to "vote for someone else" and has called them "lying, dog-faced...
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From the authors of the bestselling “Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness”, and the minds behind the popular website The Babylon Bee comes a tongue-in-cheek guide to Democracy where you'll learn how to rig elections, bribe politicians, and crush your political enemies for good.
In “The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy”, America's favorite satirists take you into a world you might have thought was beyond parody-politics. From closed-door meetings of...
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