What This Comedian Said will Shock You by Bill Maher

Nothing is Left to the imagination as this comedian stormed Right up the middle of the great North American divide with his own whirled view of everything that is wrong with our world today. At least that’s his opinion (and ours). Anyone who does not read this book does not get to have an opinion because theirs will continue to belong to the talking heads of whichever dyslexic cabal they have chosen to blindly doom scroll and parrot.

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From the Archive:

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger

This nonfiction nugget from 2014 about a divided America in the anything but halcyon days of the early1970’s is a highly informative blast from the past that provides hope, inspiration, and faith in truth to power. It is the best feel-good nonfiction thriller I have read in a long, long time. It fills in some blanks, adds context, and clears the fog surrounding events that were unfolding back in the days when I (we) were young rebels without a cause like the one this small group of unassuming, ordinary every-day LARGER THAN LIFE American HEROES both embraced and nailed (while, at the same time, driving a GIANT NAIL through the heart of J. Edgar Hoover’s dream of being remembered as the larger than life hero that these guys proved he clearly was not).

Food Fix by Mark Hyman MD

Dr. Hyman clearly describes how the vast majority of all that is wrong in the world today medically, economically, and in the realm of climate change lies in what we are eating, how it is produced, how much big food and big agriculture are willing to spend to get our elected officials to not only turn a blind eye but also shovel our tax dollars into their soulless monopolies in order to keep their (the Big Food and Big Ag) nutritionally challenged, if not toxic, ultra-processed food costs (theirs’ not yours) low.  This should be required reading in every high school on the planet as well as for every global leader and their advisors. WARNING! The story, facts, and numbers laid out vis a vis our current reality is, at best, a kick in the gut and, at worst, doom and gloom on steroids; however, the fixes proposed at the end of each chapter provide real hope for the future of you, your children, humankind, and the planet we live on.