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If you're reading this book, you are one of the many looking for hope, for a way to escape the promise of the nightmare dystopia shortly to befall us. In this, your darkest hour, we have created this book to help guide you into this new journey of hope. We know you are short on time, who knows how long the apocalypse can be held at bay? Luckily for you, this book has all you need in quick, efficient reference format and activities, to help you get...
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Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things, he's listed 3,300 gripes.
Among them:
• otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say 'amount' of people instead of 'number'
• Australia's richest person is said to earn $33,000 per minute
• being beaten at Scrabble by his Filipina mother-in-law, English being her second language
• leaf blowers
•...
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Pizza kings, mama bears, fake PAC ads, and obscene tweets: Today's politics seem to have grown crazier--and more contentious--than ever. But is it really any weirder now than it ever was? In a world filled with corruption, lies, and illicit affairs, where the news regularly serves up politicians' gaffes, crimes, and screw-up's, it's hard to imagine things were ever stranger. Well, guess what? America has a long history of bizarre politics... and it's...
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Government and politics might seem twisted today, but they've always been strange.
There's something about public office that, throughout time, has transcended normalcy. Politics Weird-o-Pedia presents some of the oddest and most interesting political absurdities and tidbits from around the world, from Peter the Great's tax on beards to a lawmaker's mistress whom he kept on the congressional payroll despite her admission that "I can't type, I can't...
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