••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, August 05, 2010

can't say i enjoyed all of these, but...

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance by Alexander Zaitchik
Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane by John Amato
Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves by Bill Press
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America by Dana Milbank
Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1 by Chris Rodda
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce
How to Win a Fight with a Conservative by Daniel Kurtzman
Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John Avlon
The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right by David Neiwert
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion by Matt Taibbi
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class by Ed Schultz
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics by Glenn Greenwald
God and His Demons by Michael Parenti
How the Republicans Stole Religion: Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right by Bill Press
Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right by Robin Morgan
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches by John W. Dean
The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht
The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity by Robert Kuttner
The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama by Will Bunch
A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power, and the Struggle to Control our Economic Future by Robert Kuttner
The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be by Michael Lux
Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon) by Bill Press
Glenn Beck: The Redemptive Story of America's Favorite Political Commentator by Xander Cricket
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman
What Liberals Believe: Thousands of Quotes on Why America Needs to Be Rescued from Greedy Corporations, Homophobes, Racists, Imperialists, Xenophobes, and Religious Extremists by William Martin
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life by Thomas Geoghegan
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War by Andrew Bacevich
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin
The Evolution of Everything: How Selection Shapes Culture, Commerce, and Nature by Mark Sumner
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails by John W. Loftus
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
Washington by Meg Greenfield
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg
Does God Get Diarrhea?: Flushing 4,000 Years Of Lies, Myths, And Fairy Tales Down The Toilet by Odin Zeus McGaffer
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back by Thom Hartmann
Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire by Matt Taibbi
The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy by David Brock
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland by Glenn Beck
Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values by Keith Olbermann
A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes by John M. O'Hara
Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope by Chalmers Johnson
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
The Bitter Pill of Truth: A Cure for Judeo-Christianity by J M Ladd
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber
The Atheist's Introduction to the New Testament: How the Bible Undermines the Basic Teachings of Christianity by Mike Davis
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy P. Harrison
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
Jesus: Neither God Nor Man - The Case for a Mythical Jesus by Earl Doherty
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama by Bill O'reilly
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II by Richard Goldstein
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon by Stephen Prothero
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years by Russ Baker
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by H. Keith Melton
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Thurber: Writings and Drawings by James Thurber
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
WAR by Sebastian Junger
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Role Models by John Waters
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson & James Kwak
Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

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