It is remarkable how many books in the “Current Events” section of a bookstore strike me as dead-weight.\u00c2\u00a0 I am slightly offended by about half the books’ existence.\u00c2\u00a0 I cannot quite quantify it, and the exceptions are sometimes not entirely apart from the type of book that I’m attacking here — meaning\u00c2\u00a0at some point\u00c2\u00a0I’m a hypocrite (albeit I’d argure only slightly so).<\/p>\n
It is seeing Ann Coulter’s Godless<\/a> next to the response of Susan Estrich’s Soulless<\/a> and Joe Maguire’s Brainless<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 None of these books should exist.\u00c2\u00a0 The first book gives us nothing and the other two books are diversions away from any real issue — the proper response to Ann Coulter is “Why should anybody give a rip?”<\/p>\n From there, the books fall into an even lower depth of meaninglessness.<\/p>\n In other political book news:\u00c2\u00a0 I saw a used biography on Estes Kefauver.\u00c2\u00a0 It was just under 200 pages.\u00c2\u00a0 Which seems appropriate for the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is remarkable how many books in the “Current Events” section of a bookstore strike me as dead-weight.\u00c2\u00a0 I am slightly offended by about half the books’ existence.\u00c2\u00a0 I cannot quite quantify it, and the exceptions are sometimes not entirely apart from the type of book that I’m attacking here — meaning\u00c2\u00a0at some point\u00c2\u00a0I’m a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}