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David Dvorkin - George W. Bush
What strange destiny links these two men? An examination of the surprising, disturbing similarities between them. And some of the differences.
Meaning the kind of blurb that publishers put on a book's cover to entice you into buying the book. Some of them can make you burst out laughing in the middle of a quiet bookstore - but that's not the intended effect.
Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed, The
Bet you didn't think there were any. Once I would have agreed with you. Now I know better, and if you read this essay, so will you.
This essay was published in Free Inquiry magazine in 1990, after which the magazine published a series of similar essays - "Why I Not a Muslim", "Why I Am Not a Baptist", etc. See what Bertrand Russell started? The editor at FI edited my manuscript to eliminate any horrid masculine pronouns and the title Mr., which I used here and there. Here those words are, restored to all their sensible and inoffensive glory.