Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have read some of his columns and they are often laugh out loud funny. This book is not funny, well I laughed a lot, it is seriously accurate journalism. It traces the our crappy political situation back to and finds the republican party in a straight trajectory from their past leadership to today. You reap what you sow.
More than I wanted to know about Reagan and Quayle, Andy draws the lines between Joe McCarthy and our current republican leadership.
Borowitz is brilliant. The book makes so many things clear and makes it more difficult to accept republicans as viable in a democracy. It is a party of lunatics with plans.
Don't be afraid of this book unless you are afraid of the truth about republican leadership. Also the book is short, half of it is footnotes that you might feel complelled to look at.

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The Heart of the Serpent: Soviet Science Fiction by Ivan Efremov
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a 1958 Soviet era science fiction. Fascinating mix of science and politics. The story is simple. We meet another race of beings in space.
Most interesting observation was that as technology improves on earth, the next generation of spaceships might beat them to the target and back. In other words, their explorarion expected to take 7 centuries on earth will bring them back to a world that is completely different from the one they left.

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The Paris Affair by Melanie Hudson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I liked it. In fact, I might have loved it. Gave me a different perspective on the war, the French and those sad people who hated Hitler and lived in Germany and Germans. Suffice it to say that this may give you a chance to see the war from a different angle, just as sad, just as horrifying, just different.

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