Daily Archives: September 28, 2024

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

Abraham Riesman (a male to female trans) writes in this 2022 book: There is no art form more intrinsically and blatantly American — in its casual violence, its bombastic braggadocio, its virulent jingoism, its populist defiance of respectability, and its … Continue reading

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Connie: A Memoir

Connie Chung writes in this 2024 book: * I didn’t start out wanting to be a guy. But in the late 1960s, when I broke into the overwhelmingly male – dominated television news business, all I saw around me was … Continue reading

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The President Of Talk Radio

Robert E. Brown writes in 2017: Remove the content from Limbaugh and what is striking is the anger. Anger is the sex of talk-radio, and sex sells. In the jargon of talk radio, there are monsters—tabloidhot news monsters. The author … Continue reading

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The Myth Of Morality

Richard Joyce writes in this 2007 book: * We have evolved to categorize aspects of the world using moral concepts. Natural selection has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, demands … Continue reading

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Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave The Way We Do

Lionel Page wrote in this 2022 book: * the brain represents only 2% of an average adult body’s weight, but 20% of its consumed energy. * In a famous study, Schkade and Kahneman (1998) found that while people tend to … Continue reading

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