Book Review: Whose Boat Is This Boat? and Aging Political Jokes
Ah, Trump. A long time ago, I wrote a post about books with an agenda. That was then. This is now. But let's buckle up, because this is going to be a ride. I noticed this because there's been somebody in Idaho taking and moving anti-Trump books to obscure places in the Coeur d'Alene library . And when this came to the attention of Stephen Colbert—one of the authors (complers?) of Whose Boat Is This Boat —he printed an "unhideable edition," which is freakishly large. We're talking the size of a child. So that brought the whole thing to the front of my mind. Plus the whole impeachment thing. That's going on, too. So, here it is: WBITB : Not bad. Kinda funny. Hasn't aged all that well, despite the good they're trying to do by sending proceeds to charity. And therein lies the real issue. Anytime someone takes aim at a contemporary political issue or figure—in writing, on the radio, in cartoons, or any medium—it's not going to age well. Ta
