Today's Attitude:
[Still Laughing, but with a hint of depression]

America, the Book: Funny as he##!

GTA and I stumbled down to Barnes&Nobles last night and picked up a copy of 'America, the Book' written by the 'Daily Show' crew from Jon Stewart's Comedy Central fake-news show.

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The book, from the get-go, is obviously mocking public-school history textbook standards. It even has that stupid "This book belongs to" page, complete with "used by" sections, in the front cover. I can guarantee that nearly every fact and quote in the book is certainly wrong,, but that makes almost every word funny. You really have to know your history to catch all the funny stuff -- there were a couple that even took me a few seconds to get. Definitely a worth-while buy for a first-time read, or potential party entertainment... right down to Bill O'Reilly's favorite part - the naked supreme-court justices that you have to cut out clothes for tham and place them on the figures.

Anyone attempting to learn history from the book will gain nothing... and kids will NOT get any of it - like the witty humor in all of Jim Henson's work, behind the muppets... BUT, that doesn't matter. Thomas Jefferson writing to Comedy Central to help him hunt "FMILFs" (no, that wasn't misspelled) and then signing his name to the book, is just the icing.

So, like Team America, if you love historical sarchasm in the extreme, Jon Stewart Style, this book is definitely for you! So I leave you with one last quote from the back cover:

"I would certainly read this book if I were alive today, which, for all you geniouses out there, I am not." - Abraham Lincoln