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Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons

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Dilbert will forever be remembered.
DILBERT'S FORMATIVE YEARS
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Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons
Scott Adams
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Dilbert will forever be remembered........2006-05-12

Dilbert is a cultural icon. Possibly too good for it's time. The jokes in Dilbert are amazingly smart, and I don't think deserves to be in the comic pages by idiocy. Anyway, this book marks the first (and possibly the best) comics from the Dilbert series. Characters we're still developing and the niche of the comic was still undecided. Regardless, it's a gut bustingly funny collection.

If you even have the tiniest, remote sense of humor, buy this. And when your done, by the funniest tv-show ever made; no, not seinfeld. Dilbert: the complete series. If not, go back to your pathetically boring life and dirty cubicle.

Scott Adams remains one of the funniest authors in the world.

DILBERT'S FORMATIVE YEARS.......2004-12-28

This being the earliest collection of dilbert strips we can see where Scott Adams was still looking to find that comfort zone. Kind of like Seinfeld in its first two seasons. Many of the strips take place at home as opposed to the office and include many of Scotts Animal characters.

Still you can see where the strip is going and certainly where it would be in a just a couple of years. The wry, sarcasm that we now know so well is rearing its humorous head.

Early Dilbert.......2004-08-01

This is the first compilation of Dilbert comics, featuring Dilbert comic strips from the late 80's. Most of the humor is at home -- away from the office and features Dilbert with Dogbert. No Pointy Hair Boss, Wally, Alice, etc.. So, despite its title, there is very little office satire (my Dilbert preference). At 112 pages with typically 3 comic strips per page, there are plenty of laughs. The comics featuring Phil the Ruler of Heck are hillarious.

The First Dilbert Strips.......2002-08-19

This book contains the first Dilbert strips running from April 16, 1989 to October 21, 1989. The characters are a little rough from what we've come to know and the humor contains a lot of puns. Some characters introduced here besides Dilbert and Dogbert are the dinosaurs Bob and Dawn, and Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light. Scott was still feeling out the strip at this time and as a result it is not the funniest, but it is still good.

The First Dilbert Book.......2001-09-18

This is the first Dilbert book, filled with intelligent, totally funny humor on everyday life. This book did not have the official pointy haired boss, Wally, Alice, Ratbert, or Catbert. This book focuses more on Dilbert and Dogbert at home, on walks, and other places that don't have much to do with office life. These kinds of jokes are just as funny as the business jokes. This book should be read by all Dilbert fans.

The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Knucklehead's Guide to Stoogedom--from Amalgamated Association of Morons to Ziller...

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The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia
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The Three Stooges are undoubtedly the most famous comedy team in all history, and today Stoogemania is everywhere. Here is a treasure trove of the timeless humor and slapstick comedy that has made the Stooges such comic legends. Filled with more than 1,400 entries, jokes, and key gags, this deluxe collector's volume showcases the Stooges in all their zany, absurd glory.

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A STOOGES FAN DREAM COME TRUE.......2002-04-06

This book has everything you need to know about The Stooges.
It is well organized and easy to navigate. The detail of the classic episodes is worth the price alone. I highly recommend this book.

A Rehash of Lines and Names. Not Much Here........2002-02-12

I completely agree with other reviewers: that all one had to do is watch the Stooges shorts and write down the funny lines and names and voila you have Three Stooges Encyclopedia.

I give it two stars just because the section on supporting actors is interesting. Otherwise the rest is just a rehash of lines and names. The bios are even disappointing, it has stuff like, "We all want to be Curly."

I would advise to look elsewhere if you want a book on THE THREE STOOGES.

Very funny and helpful........2002-02-08

Not sure what the sign of someone's door said in MONKEY BUSINESSMEN? You'll find it in THE THREE STOOGES ENCYCLOPEDIA. This has some of the Stooges most famous quotes, songs, signs and so much more. You should buy this. This is the perfect addition to your Three Stooges collection.

The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia.......2001-01-18

Informative, entertaining and insightful. A very original presentation of the most original comedy team ever. Readers are given new insight into each Stooge and a sense of where their genius originated. Especially interesting are the well written accounts of their personal idiosyncrasies as well as their relationships with each other. Time flies when reading this.

Howard Stern's favorite book.......2001-01-17

Howard Stern was talking about how great this book is yesterday. Larry used to be Louis and played the violin and Curly was always goofing because he was a lady's man and was insecure about his weight This book is full of stuff like that, things that even the biggest Stooge fan probably didn't know. And it's a great source for stuff you do know but forgot. It's so funny, too.

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

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The Debasement of the Intellect
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Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
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Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?

Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose “a mortal threat to the security of every nation”?

Why does the Princeton professor known as the father of the animal rights movement object to humans eating animals but not to humans having sex with them—and why does PETA defend that position?

In other words, why do smart people fall for stupid ideas?

The answer, Daniel J. Flynn reveals in Intellectual Morons, is ideology. Flynn, the author of Why the Left Hates America, shows how people can be so blinded to reality by the causes they serve that they espouse bizarre, sometimes ridiculous, and often dangerous positions. The most influential social movements have spawned ideologues who do not care whether an idea is good or bad, true or false, but only whether it can serve their cause.

It is startling how many Americans—and particularly how many media, academic, and political elites—fall for bad ideas. The trouble is, their lies become institutionalized as truth, and we all suffer as a result.

In Intellectual Morons, Flynn reveals:

•How rabid anti-Americans simply parrot the delusional claims of a few gurus

•How the environmental movement, spawned by a “scientist” whose doomsday predictions are almost always wrong, has bred fanaticism, stupidity, and dishonesty

•How the hero of the animal rights crowd is a crank who promotes infanticide and euthanasia

•How a scientific fraud—and pervert—launched the sexual revolution

•How abortion rights activists ignore (or cover up) the fact that their matron saint advocated eugenics and concentration camps

•How our universities have become hothouses of leftist ideology

•How historians and journalists have airbrushed history to turn a racial separatist into a civil rights icon

Filled with jaw-dropping lapses in common sense from even our most celebrated opinion leaders, Intellectual Morons is a welcome reality check for the glaring excesses of today’s political and cultural debates.

"This is a sophisticated pile driver of a book, guiding us through the wiles of great luminaries of the netherworld. And such liveliness in the writing, and such erudition. I was quite fascinated by Intellectual Morons."—William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Intellectual Morons is exceptionally aptly named. The thought of all that brainpower going down the intellectual drain is sad, but Daniel Flynn's description of it is hilariously on point. This is must reading."—G. Gordon Liddy

"Intellectual Morons is a delight—a wonderful intellectual history of the past hundred years. Flynn ably describes the purveyors of the bad ideas that have undermined our free society."—Burton W. Folsom, Jr., professor of history, Hillsdale College

"A famous bit of folk wisdom says, 'You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.' Some of the crackpot notions now fashionable in academic circles, as here documented by Daniel Flynn, suggest that saying is an understatement. If you want to know how crazy, and scairy, intellectual morons can get, you have to read this book."—M. Stanton Evans, author of The Theme Is Freedom, contributing editor to Human Events

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Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States "the new Hitler" and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?

Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose "a mortal threat to the security of every nation"?

Why does the Princeton professor known as the father of the animal rights movement object to humans eating animals but not to humans having sex with them—and why does PETA defend that position?

In other words, why do smart people fall for stupid ideas?The answer, Daniel J. Flynn reveals in Intellectual Morons, is ideology. Flynn, the author of Why the Left Hates America, shows how people can be so blinded to reality by the causes they serve that they espouse bizarre, sometimes ridiculous, and often dangerous positions. The most influential social movements have spawned ideologues who do not care whether an idea is good or bad, true or false, but only whether it can serve their cause.

It is startling how many Americans—and particularly how many media, academic, and political elites—fall for bad ideas. The trouble is, their lies become institutionalized as truth, and we all suffer as a result. In Intellectual Morons, Flynn reveals:

How rabid anti-Americans simply parrot the delusional claims of a few gurus
How the environmental movement, spawned by a "scientist" whose doomsday predictions are almost always wrong, has bred fanaticism, stupidity, and dishonesty
How the hero of the animal rights crowd is a crank who promotes infanticide and euthanasia
How a scientific fraud-and pervert-launched the sexual revolution
How abortion rights activists ignore (or cover up) the fact that their matron saint advocated eugenics and concentration camps
How our universities have become hothouses of leftist ideology
How historians and journalists have airbrushed history to turn a racial separatist into a civil rights icon

Filled with jaw-dropping lapses in common sense from even our most celebrated opinion leaders, Intellectual Morons is a welcome reality check for the glaring excesses of today's political and cultural debates.

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The Debasement of the Intellect.......2007-06-16

Daniel Flynn is a conservative campus speaker, author, and television guest commentator who relentlessly reminds Americans that the greatest threat to America comes from our own Left. In WHY THE LEFT HATES AMERICA, he outlines the historical background of the Frankfurt School that led to Marxism making its initial inroads into the American political and educational arena. And now in INTELLECTUAL MORONS, he picks up a thread that he left partially unraveled from his first book. Flynn sees the "big picture" of the entire spectrum of the Left Democratic Party as being variations of the gender, race, and class dichotomy of classic Marxist thought. Even though Marxism went out of business big time with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its adherents were too deeply entrenched in its tenets to so easily surrender an adherence to a system that began as political, but soon enough morphed into non-political areas that Flynn labels as "Communism, environmentalism, animal rights, sexual anarchism, feminism, postmodernism, relativism, deconstructionism," (Page 2) all of which he sees as being championed by those who still carry forth the banner of Marx even if under a slightly modified manner.

Flynn notes a definite cross-linking among them all. Those who champion one are very likely to support any of the others. To these leaders-supporters, he suggests that intentions count far more than outcomes. It does not matter if any ideology proves disastrously wrong; what counts is the fervor that each brings to the cause. And the fervor, of course, is based on a selective manipulation of fact to fit an equally selective manipulation of reality. Flynn begins with Herbert Marcuse, a German immigrant who began modern Leftist thought by insisting that toleration from the Left was to be balanced by intolerance toward the right. It is no surprise that Flynn begins with Marcuse, the man who popularized the now all-pervasive notion that Western civilization was instrumental in leading toward the victim ideology that constitutes the core curriculums of our colleges. His following chapters deal with how sexuality became distorted with Kinsey; how environmentalism under Ehrlich morphed into the belief that global warming is the New Armageddon; how animal rights under Peter Singer now trump human rights; how the clear fraud of the third world claims of Rigoberta Menchu even now is hidden from those who do not wish to see it; and how history under Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky "proves" that the United States was born in racism and grows in racism. Flynn does not omit feminism or literary theory to escape his claims that deliberate intellectual blindness is but the first step on the slippery slope to an intellectual depravity of thought that he terms moronic. And what of the so-called "smart" people who follow such beliefs even against all evidence? Flynn suggests that there is hope for a massive turnaround for those who wish to turn the United States into a clone of France. The trick he notes is for conservatives to eternally drag the lies and distortions of the Left into the disinfectant of the sun and let the newest generation see that the emperor truly has no clothes. This will be a long struggle but the future of this country is worth it.

At first thought this was a serious book, not made-up nonsense.......2007-05-12

I picked up this book from the library without noticing the endorsement from G. Gordon Liddy on the back. That should give you a clue about how "right on" this book is.

Machinations of the Godless.......2007-01-20

Dan Flynn's "Intellectual Morons" is stunning corroboration of Psalm 14 which begins, "The fool says in his heart, `There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." The corroboration is even more profound when you consider that the Hebrew word translated into the English word "fool" connotes not just bad judgment, but moral deficiency.

In this easy-to-read, densely cited work, Flynn chronicles several intellectually vapid, morally destructive concepts and their purveyors who are still held in high esteem by the atheistic and the functionally atheistic intellectual and cultural elite (functionally atheistic being defined as those who may believe in God but never allow that belief to alter their worldview.) He decisively proves how deluded these people are by demonstrating how they reject facts that refute their beliefs. When an admirer of Alfred Kinsey is confronted with several recent studies suggesting that only two percent of the population is homosexual, as opposed to Kinsey's estimated ten percent, the admirer's response is that the other studies demonstrate "how they are equally wrong, not that Kinsey was." Flynn astutely summarizes, "When fact and theory clash, the ideologue chooses theory. To the true believer, ideology is truth."

The ideologically deluded will not only ignore facts that refute them, but will fabricate "facts" to further the Cause. Flynn quotes Stanford professor Stephen Schneider talking about raising environmental consciousness: "Scientists should consider stretching the truth to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... [W]e have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."

Another characteristic of the ideologically deluded is their refusal to debate their ideas. To them, their view isn't merely a subjective preference but objective fact. Opponents are seen as disseminators of falsehoods motivated by malevolent intent. Therefore, instead of engaging in debate, they resort to character assassination and intellectual snobbery. Opposing ideas are not worth debating because they are intellectually inferior. So prevalent is this characteristic of false ideas, that an observer can determine the falsehood of any idea by whether its supporters exhibit it - such as proponents of evolution, man-made global warming and liberalism in general.

Flynn may want to consider rewriting chapter 7 about the run-up to the Iraq invasion since many of the "facts" he uses to illustrate ideological blindness on the part of Straussians in the defense department have since been proven false. Joe Wilson has been proven to be a complete fraud, British intelligence to this day stands by it's assertion that Hussein tried to procure yellow-cake uranium (from evidence besides the forged letter,) WMDs WERE found in Iraq, and the connection between Iraq and al Qaeda has been conclusively proven (though probably not with respect to 9/11.) It is also clear that Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism that allowed terrorists to train within its borders. According to the Bush Doctrine, we treat these countries the same as the terrorists themselves. That alone is reason enough to invade. I also find it a bit naïve on Flynn's part to believe that U.S. intelligence gave the American people ALL the evidence it had about Iraq and WMDs before our forces invaded. Of course, all of this new information came out AFTER the book was published in 2004, so I don't hold Flynn accountable.

In total, this is an extremely important work describing where many (if not all) of our current societal ills originated. For the uninitiated, this is a must-read, especially those about to enter college since most of the destructive ideas described in this book have their homes on university campuses across the country.

Can you say, "Strawman"?.......2006-10-10

Page after page of vapid ranting relying on ad hominem attacks buttressed by footnotes the National Enquirer would be proud to cite. Not thoughtful, not thought-provoking, but an addition to ditto-head "uh HUH!" conformity to whatever outrage du jour (or du hier, so 1970s are his examples) is promoted by neocon ideologues.

There are good conservative writers out there; Flynn is not one of them.

Go over modern doctrines with a cool-headed right-wing writer.......2006-09-07

In his introduction to "Intellectual Morons", Flynn promises to argue against all "isms" that are part of an ideology. However, what he later does is argue against ideas that are part of the Left. Perhaps his title should have been: Leftist Intellectual Morons. On thirteen chapters, only two are dedicated to doctrines said to be from the Right (Conservatism and Objectivism).

However, most of his chapters are rather well argued and with rigorous end of chapters notes and without the passionate fury that characterizes some right-wing speakers . Each chapter picks a spokesperson or two for a doctrine (for example, Paul Erhlich for environmentalism) and attempts to show how dishonest the person is intellectually.

The tactic doesn't necessarily make the whole field of environmentalism or minority activism unworthy. It does however make for an interesting overview of the history of modern ideas and a few of their most outspoken representatives: the Frankfurt school, the beginnings of sexology as a discipline with Kinsey, the start of family planning in America with Margaret Stanger, Ayn Rand and Objectivism and the origin of Neo-Conservatism are all discussed. Also discussed are minority activist Rigoberta Menchu, activist and political commentator Noam Chomsky, historian Howard Zinn, Paul Erhlich and environmentalism, etc.

An interesting read if you are interested in modern ideologies (also suspiciously similar to "Hoodwinked") but not a definite study.

Stories from a Moron : Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines

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Stories from a Moron : Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines
Jerry Seinfeld , and Ed Broth
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Ed is an aspiring writer. He really wants to be published. But Ed Broth's problem is that he writes short pieces and send them in to the wrong places. For example, Ed writes a story about his clothesline and then... sends it to Fencing Quarterly. When the editor writes back explaining that his magazine is about fencing rather than clotheslines, Ed does what any ambitious writer would do: he revises. And then resubmits his story--now containing hilariously ham-handed additions about fencing--to the same editor. Stories From A Moron collects not only Ed's work but the letters between Ed and the beleaguered editors of the publications he submits to. It's nutty humour at its deadpan best.

"Welcome to the world of Ed Broth. I think we can all use a warm clear liquid with a faintly chickeny smell right about now." --Jerry Seinfeld

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Read an exclusive, never published story and hilarious editorial exchange from Ed Broth, author of Stories from a Moron: Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines, with an introduction from Jerry Seinfeld.

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Hysterical.......2007-03-24

The best thing about it is the stories inetrtwine. You'll be reading one, not sure if the guy is totally on drugs, and a few chapters later something will come up that causes tears to well up from laughter.

A perscription to cure depression and bad moods.

A Bit Of A Letdown.......2007-03-02

When I ordered "Stories From A Moron", I was very excited because I've enjoyed the Letters from a Nut series so much. I expected a similar experience. While the book is not a total loss, I did not feel like it lived up to the Letters series of books.

The premise of the book is that Ed Broth is crafting these silly stories and sending them in for review by publishers. The book is composed of the stories and the exchanges sent back and forth regarding the stories. It's a humorous premise but the execution was lacking. The stories are short, rarely more than 2 pages, but they, as you work through the book, become a bore to work through. It seemed like every story had the same set of themes. So, each new story that is presented is like re-reading the same thing over again. This goes on throughout the book. Of course, one can skim the stories and just read the replies. Sadly, the replies received are rarely more than just form letters. Editors probably receive plenty of terrible stories like the ones in this book all the time and so few bother to respond with a personal remark.

So that left me with the fact that I was reading these terrible stories and the payoff of a humorous response never came from the editor. In contrast, Letters from a Nut works because Seinfeld is writing to customer service depts that have to deal with each request separately. In this book, he's just sending the same question [Will you publish this?] over and over again. The response is always going to be no so there's nothing to really laugh about in the responses.

There are a few bits in the book that made me laugh and at the bargain price I got it for from Amazon, I'm not terribly upset with the book, I would have just preferred another volume in the Letters series.

sincerely,
R.C.

Not up to Par.......2006-10-14

Having read the Letters from a Nut series, I was excited to see this title. After reading though, the main problem is the length of the stories. The letters were just the right length to get in some absurdiy, then let the targets reply. In this book, the Stories drag on forever, with people regurgitating things, men trying to kiss the male narrator, his girlfriend and chihuahua sharing a name, leading to reader boredom. Halfway through, I started thumbing for the replies.

I laughed so hard I couldn't breath.......2006-01-25

I read "Stories from a Moron" recently, and I laughed so hard at times that I couldn't catch my breath. If you like absurd humor - you'll love this book. If you think that "Letters From A Nut" is funny, you haven't seen anything yet.

Worst Humorous book.........2005-10-15

This is a worst book I ever read. Also it is not written by Jerry Seinfeld but forwarded by him. And I picked it up because of Seinfelds name. This book lacks humor. Its no way at the level of Larry Davids or Costanzas character. The chapters are just repetetive. Crappy letters and stories can be very humorous, but that humour is completely lacking in this book. I am giving it a 1 star because that is the lowest I can go. Avoid this. It is a waste of time. Broth must try a bit hard for his next publication. Seinfeld shows that he can be a loyal friend by giving a forward to this book, I guess, without reading it.

The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons

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The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons
Michael Fleming
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Release Date: 2002-08-13

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The Three Stooges are admittedly an acquired taste. To fully appreciate them, as with NASCAR racing, practical jokes, and Steely Dan, it helps to be a guy. But there's no denying the durability of the Stooges' fearless physical performances. Every eye poke, noggin crack, face slap, and nyuk-nyuk-nyuk feels as edgy today as it did in their earliest two-reelers, and it's safe to say that their routines, for better or worse, helped pave the way for the Farrelly brothers, the Zucker brothers, Adam Sandler, and Jim Carrey.

Michael Fleming, a columnist for Daily Variety, has diligently compiled the history of the Stooges, from their vaudeville days through the height of their fame in the '30s to the '50s and beyond. What An Illustrated History lacks in clear organization it more than makes up for in attention to detail, about the lives of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard (plus the other "third Stooges," Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita); the genesis of their routines; and the heavy-handed business deals that left them, the most successful comedians of their day, with virtually no residual income. The book's best segment dissects each two-reeler and film (including Men in Black, the only Stooge short to be nominated for an Oscar), with a wealth of publicity photos and a tally of slaps, eye pokes, and head conks. Might Fleming make even non-Stooge fans appreciate their humor? Why, soitenly. --Anne Hurley

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More people today can name the members of the Three Stooges than can name three justices of the Supreme Court. The Stooges are comedy icons whose enduring appeal and slapstick legacy have made them one of the most famous and beloved comedy troupes in the world. Michael Fleming's The Three Stooges TM is the first complete, authorized biography of the men who made pie fights part of our national cultural heritage.

A juggernaut of wise guys, headlocks, and unforgettable insults, this book tells the whole history of the Stooges, starting with their origins in the golden years of vaudeville, when the boys from Brooklyn honed their craft. Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard were born Moses, Jerome, and Samuel Horwitz--and were believed for many years to be the three least accomplished sons of their Lithuanian immigrant parents. Ultimately, of course, the Three Stooges reinvented the rules of slapstick comedy: never be caught unprepared in a pie fight, never slap one wise guy in the face if you can slap three in a row, and never underestimate the value of a good poke in the eye.

Signed in 1934 by Columbia Pictures to a renewable contract that had them making at least nine short films a year, the Stooges learned firsthand about the sharks swimming through Hollywood's early waters. And after nearly a quarter century of producing the short films for which the Stooges are so well known and loved, the studio declined to renew their contract in 1954, and the pioneering pie-throwing professionals lost their jobs. Fittingly, though, Moe & Co. were destined to have the last laugh: the advent of television revived their careers after the decline of vaudeville and Hollywood shorts, and a new generation of belly laughs was born.

From the Stooges' humble origins to movie stardom to comedy legends, there's something here for every level of fan--from folks who watched them on television as a kid to Stooge scholars and certified "knuckleheads." Featuring over two hundred photographs, many of them rare; interviews with Stooge friends and families; and a complete filmography with every "woob-woob" and crashed society cocktail party lovingly detailed, this book will be treasured by all Stoogedom.

From the Hardcover edition.

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OK...so it "ain't" Shakespeare..........2006-10-12

But when you think STOOGES...only THREE will come to mind.

I can't see ANY of these guys doing Hamlet...(would probably be called OMELET, knowing them), and yet their works have endured over time, and endeared them to us, generation after generation.

Mr. Fleming does an outstanding job of capturing the essence of being a "stooge" in the heyday of talkies following vaudeville. The photos are numerous AND hilarious. The quality of paper used in the printing is of note as well.

One major selling point is the compilation of ALL their works from the first short to the last appearnance...it's all there!

Having read the Moe Howard book as well, it was nice to see another person's perspective on one of (if not the best) comedy teams of all time.

I grew up with the stooges shorts being shown on local TV (in Philly), and in all that time, we never lost an eye at our school...lol!

So if you need a good, concise tome on these knuckleheads...look no further. This is a very good book, and will surely conjure up a lot of memories.

Succinct overview.......2005-11-11

This isn't a full biography of the Stooges so much as it is a detailed general overview of their careers and lives. I also wish more time had been spent on talking about their childhoods and lives offcamera, but that's what a longer, more in-depth biography is for. It's true that some events were glossed over or not even mentioned, but I found the information that was included to be fascinating and informative, such as particularly the Stooges' run on vaudeville when they were supporting Ted Healy. The best thing about this book are the pictures, on practically every page, from all stages of their career. The final section was also a highlight, recapping all 190 of their shorts, complete with a slap count and tally of conking heads, memorable lines, and pies thrown. And I really hope that the story related in the second section was true and not just urban legend, the very unorthodox (to say the least!) way Moe finally got Larry to start paying back money he'd been lent, since it's just too good to have been made up! If you're just looking for a good general overview of their career, this is a good book to go to, but if you're looking for a more detailed in-depth look at the boys, both onscreen and off, you'll be better-served reading an actual biography or 'The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia.'

Awesome and fun.......2005-06-13

Not only does this book give a biography of the Stooges, but also an interesting run-down of each of the shorts that they starred in. The history itself was worth the cost of the book, there were many eyewitness accounts of the lives of the Stooges, background into life at that time (so that one can understand what they did and why), and descriptions of the people who influenced them. The descriptions of the shorts is fun, since the author kept "slap counts" for each episode. Not just a book for guys, I was baffled at the statement that only guys like the 3 Stooges, I've been a lifelong fan and I love this book, too.

Dutiful But Dumb.......2005-03-17

This is the WORST book about the Stooges on the market. As a member of the Three Stooges Fandom Honor Roll (along with Jay Leno, Johnny Carson and Jerry Seinfeld, among others) take it from me: the errors begin on the first page and don't stop until the end of the last. The author misses all the Stooge's puns in Yiddish (believing that they are uttering "gibberish"); he mis-credits directors, actors, producers and misspells names, gets dates wrong, constantly refers to Moe Howard's grandson as Moe's son, but worst of all he completely misses the point of their comedy. The question is not why this book is so bad, it's why this guy bothered to write the thing in the first place, since he knows so little about the Stooges, their humor, the forces that shaped them and the actual members of the act from its inception in 1924 to its demise in 1970 (he leaves out most of 'em). AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!

Middling.......2003-01-26

A nicely packaged book. If you're new to Stooge fandom, then this is a good book for you. But, if you're a longtime fan who wants to read and learn...

MOE HOWARD AND THE THREE STOOGES (by Moe Howard himself) *
THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK (co-authored by Moe's daughter) *
CURLY (again, co-authored by Moe's daughter) *
THE COMPLETE THREE STOOGES (by Dr. Jon Solomon)...

Those are the books you should buy!

If you decide otherwise, this book is a nice simple read, with nothing new to offer. There are better ways to learn about the Three Stooges.

Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron

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Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron
Hoda Zaki
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute presents the story of how one of the preeminent--and historically conservative--private institutions of black higher education came to play an important part in the struggle for full racial equality. Hoda Zaki traces Hampton Institute’s progressive impact to its first black and alumnus president, Alonzo G. Moron, who used his office to launch a powerful and sustained attack against segregation.

A brilliant man, who was uncompromising in his beliefs about creating a more inclusive democracy, Moron struggled against conservative forces both outside of and within his own institution before his ouster by Hampton's predominantly white governing board in 1959--just a year before the Greensboro sit-ins signaled the death knell for the segregationist era in which his institution had prospered. Hoda Zaki details the significance of Moron’s complicated career through discussions of his theories of citizenship education, his work in promoting equal rights as a mission for the college, and the political philosophy (as evidenced in his speeches) that he shared with other civil rights leaders of the era.

Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense

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Excellent in parts but has serious flaws
Disappointing
Entertaining, informative, opinionated, cynical
Wrong title
His own critics confirm Wheen's claims

Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense
Francis Wheen
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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ASIN: 1586482475

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A savagely witty account of the last quarter century, when despite a great leap forward in technology there has been a huge, regressive collapse in our ability to think straight--so that everything has begun to stop making sense.

In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.

What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political era--including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer--while lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.

In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

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Excellent in parts but has serious flaws.......2006-09-02

There is no doubt that, despite the huge advances which have been brought by reason and science, an alarming number of people, many of them highly educated, have turned away from reason in favour of new age nonsense or the most simplistic forms of old-established religions. Although Francis Wheen's book has some very serious flaws, it does provoke a great deal of thought about why.

Let's get the negative comment out of the way first. Francis Wheen was a journalist on The Guardian, the main left-wing/liberal newspaper in the UK. In certain parts of the book he allows his left/liberal prejudices an inappropriate degree of latitude given the sort of book this is advertised as being.

The book completely fails to make any distinction whatsoever between mainstream views which the author does not happen to agree with and the genuine 24-carat nonsense which the title, dust jacket, and advertising claim it to be about. Almost everyone to the right of Michael Moore in the States or Roy Hattersley in the UK - including New Democrats such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, and New Labour figures like Tony Blair - is presented as irrational. Sometimes Wheen can give chapter and verse to justify this, but at other times he is just venting his own irrational prejudices.

For example, the entire first chapter of the book is a left-liberal polemic against Thatcherism and Reaganism, during which he attacks Nobel prizewinning academics like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in similar terms to those which he uses to dismiss the views of the American presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

My problem with this is not that Wheen disagrees with Friedman and Hayek - I don't share all their views myself. My problem is that, in a book which is supposed to be about the flight from rationality, he writes about rational people who arrived at their views by scientific sifting of the evidence on subjects which they have studied far more intensively than he has, as if they were in the same league as the nutters, fraudsters and snake oil salesmen of whom his criticisms are much more justified.

At a risk of labouring the point, Friedman's study of the economic causes of the Great Depression which won him the Nobel Prize, and his speech in 1967 correctly predicting that the Phillips Curve relationship between unemployment and inflation which had worked for the previous century was about to collapse, are recognised as brilliant by many economists including plenty of left-wing or Keynsian views.

Friedman had previously said that "we are all Keynsians now" and one of the world's leading economists, who was a prominent Keynsian, meant it as a complement to Milton Friedman when he said in response "we are all monetarists now." My first economics tutor, a left-wing Keynsian, once qualified a critique of Friedman - the rest of which Francis Wheen would almost certainly have agreed with - by emphasising that although he was about to strongly disagree with some of Friedman's views he considered him a brilliant economist who richly deserved his Nobel prize.

The point I am making is not whether Friedman is right or wrong, it is that he has no place in a book on the flight from reason. For Francis Wheen to write of Friedman and Hayek in the same way as he writes of anti-rational religious fanatics like William Jennings Bryan does not enhance his case. I would make exactly the same criticisms if a right-wing author were to write a book like this one, start it with a first chapter accusing all left-wingers of being irrational, and include equivalent misplaced criticism of the late John Kenneth Galbraith.

I am not sure why Francis Wheen does not present any distinction between views that a rational person could hold but he doesn't, and views which could only be held by someone seriously adrift from reality. I hope it is because he did not think it necessary.

I came very close to throwing this book in the bin towards the end of the first chapter, which gave me the impression that I can been conned into wasting money on a bog-standard left-wing denunciation of all views to the right of Michael Moore and Roy Hattersley rather than the critique of new age irrationalism promised on the cover.

However, I am glad I persevered, because after the first chapter Mr Wheen starts to cover a much wider range of subjects, present a more balanced approach and produce evidence to back up his views which I found significantly more convincing. From chapter 2 onwards he does make a serious attempt to chart some of the irrational views which have emerged or re-emerged over the past 20 years on both left and right. Subjects covered by the book include fundamentalist attempts to prevent the teaching of evolution, management gobbledegook, astrology, academic fads like "deconstructionism," flying saucers and Alien abduction, and quack medicinal ideas such as Homeopathy.

An example of one of the many good sections in the book is that which considers the development and influence of "The X files". Apparently this TV programme is frequently quoted as a source by American university students, and when their tutors point out that it is fiction they reply "Yes, but it's based on fact." The programme's creator, Chris Carter, is quoted as saying that he originally intended that the programme would have episodes that exposed hoaxes and that "I wanted Agent Scully to be right as much as agent Mulder." But going with the paranormal explanation every time got better ratings.

As Richard Dawkins pointed out, if you had a detective series which had a white suspect and a black one every time, and the black person always turned out to be the guilty party, if would be totally unacceptable, and you could not excuse by saying this was just entertainment and that result produced better ratings.

If Scooby-Doo, a humorous cartoon show, can be a big hit with children when the "supernatural" events always get exposed as a hoax, why can't the X files ? Are the people who make that show less talented than the creators of Scooby Doo ? Do the adults who watch it have critical faculties which are less developed than the children who watch Scooby Doo ? I have to wonder.

Taken as a whole I would recommend this book to anyone interested in trying to understand why so many people have turned away from reason. Readers from Howard Dean or Gordon Brown and leftwards will enjoy the beginning of the book, readers from Al Gore or Tony Blair and rightwards will lose nothing but a boost to your blood pressure by starting at Chapter Two.

Disappointing.......2006-04-26

I had high hopes for this volume- but like many other reviewers, I was dimayed by the author's profound ignorance or economics, and even more profound ignorance of history. He has the British Left's rabid hatred of Maggie Thatcher, and consequently he is blind to the tremendous economic resurgence of Great Britain under her leadership. Similarly, his analysis of fiscal policies under Reagan consists mainly of reciting old charges of "voodoo economics", and so he blames tax cuts for deficits- instead of actually looking at the record, and discovering that US tax receipts actually increased after the '84 tax reform.

The remainder of the book consists in large part of assorted bits of nonsense found in government and academia, most of it of little consequence. There are some gems buried in their as well, but the bulk of the book is so taken with the author's personal predjudices and ignorance that I can't recommend it.

Entertaining, informative, opinionated, cynical.......2005-12-13

This is a good read, even though I write as someone more likely to use the word "Enlightenment" in a Buddhist context, rather than in reference to the revolution of "pure reason" inspired by the likes of Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton over two hundred years ago. Unfortunately Francis Wheen appears to believe that the two world views are mutually exclusive and that only truth derived from rationalism and scientific progress is the way forward. Surely there is room for both?! Possibly the author would dismiss this last suggestion as "post-modern relativism".

Still, Wheen makes a lot of good points and fires at a wide range of mostly easy targets in the modern world. His analysis of the emotional hysteria surrounding the death of Princess Diana is interesting and his cynical attacks on all things remotely "new age" are occasionally funny and insightful. Likewise the observations of various political and economic hypocrisies are well informed. However, he sometimes seems on the virge of dismissing all human feeling and failing as "Mumbo-Jumbo". By the end of this rambling book there is very little that has escaped criticism.

Amongst other things, this is an entertaining and informed overview of 25 years of social, political, and economic history. I will be re-reading sections of it but Wheen appears to be inhabiting a rather depressing intellectual world here. Many people have willingly embraced "non-rational" ideas and points of view because they have felt let down or alienated by the dehumanizing attitude of rationality and scientific progress that Wheen appears to worship.

Wrong title.......2005-08-20

I really enjoyed this book. I particularly like that enlightment values are opposed to modern world views regardless of whether those are the views of the left or the right, Christians or Muslims, democrats or republicans.

He doesn't make any effort, though, to tell us HOW this came about, but instead simply demonstrates that it has come about.

The only negative comment made by the other reviewers that I agree with is that the book needed a stronger editor. Some of those chapters really wander around.

His own critics confirm Wheen's claims.......2005-03-14

It has been very amusing to read the reviews of those who dislike or disparage this book (on this site and elsewhere). Frequently, their complaints betray their disappointment that Wheen has committed the "crime" of attacking their own pet delusions, such as one reviewer who claimed to have no problem with the author's views until he dared to criticize the exalted gospel of the "free market"!

It has always been my experience that truly intelligent people are able to make their ideas crystal clear, when they make the effort to do so. Conversely, those who hide behind vague "deeper meanings" and post-modernist claptrap are really trying to disguise their own lack of intelligence. (They're usually the same people who flunked Maths and Science at school!) Thus, I suspect that those who criticize Wheen for being "shallow" are members of precisely the class of intellectual poseurs who are his targets in this book.

As with any thoughtful dissertation, every reader can say "I wish the author had said more about A and less about B". That is hardly a damning criticism: if you want to discuss "A" further, then why don't YOU write a book about that? Could it be that the reality is that YOU have nothing original to offer on the subject?

The tragic aspect of this book's message is that such a small portion of the population seems consciously aware of the recent "dumbing down" of Western culture. Were that not the case, then the author would surely not have felt the need to write this book! Why should the author be obligated to offer solutions to these problems (as some reviewers have demanded), when the vast majority of people (in the true tradition of "Brave New World") can't even see a problem? Ironically, the very people who complain that Wheen doesn't serve up answers on a plate are those who fall for the promise of the "snake oil" in the first place.

This book is an excellent, humorous and wide-ranging read. If you want something "deeper", then why don't YOU help the world by writing it?

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol IIA (2 A): Call Me Joe; Who Goes There?; Nerves; Universe; The Marching Morons; Vintage Season; ... And Then There ... Three; The Time Machine; With Folded Hands

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol IIA (2 A): Call Me Joe; Who Goes There?; Nerves; Universe; The Marching Morons; Vintage Season; ... And Then There ... Three; The Time Machine; With Folded Hands
Poul Anderson , Jr. (Don A. Stuart) John W. Campbell , Lester del Rey , Robert A. Heinlein , C.M. Kornbluth , Jack Williamson , H.G. Wells , Cordwainer Smith , and Theodore Sturgeon
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Glen Hirshberg is back in top form
Not Very Polished Writing

American Morons
Glen Hirshberg
Manufacturer: Earthling Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0976633981

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From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales...

Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.

In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

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Glen Hirshberg is back in top form.......2007-03-10

Just a few years after The Two Sams, his first short story collection, Glen Hirshberg is back with a new great collection of stories. Yes, these are ghost stories, but there is more here as Mr. Hirshberg also used some more mainstream suspense here, always with the same great quality of writing style. I do agree with Peter Straub when he says that Glen Hirshberg is one of the best writers of weird fiction of his generation. There is nothing more to say except here with this book you go from one good surprise to another all along the pages. A good trip full of memorable steps. Enjoy!

Not Very Polished Writing.......2007-02-23

The stories in this collection do not impress me all that much. I find that the author has some good ideas but, as in the title story, tries too hard to put different elements together in order to achieve his objectives. The overall quality of the writing is OK, but very distracting at times, giving me the sense of gliding over the stories without being able to go into them at any depth. I don't care about the characters, the plots meander, and the endings have little or no impact. Not recommended.

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Holy mackerel -- what a work of genius!

Oxygenated Morons
Louis Dvoretzky
Manufacturer: Louis Dvoretzky
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976689006

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Random nonsense in the form of unrelated one-to-eight-liners. Some items do make sense. Full of mental challenges,quirky thoughts,"whizdumbs", "cleverisms", "stupidisms", oxymora and puns.

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slap-upside-the-head.......2007-05-04

"Oxygenated Morons" is labeled as a book of random nonsense, and I heartily agree. Though there are a number of bits that do make sense, this book is so punny it is not funny. Full of mental challenges, quirky thoughts and slap-upside-the-head one-liners, this book would make for good bathroom reading. No offense to the author, but it is not a cuddle up on the couch sort of book.

A good gift for the pun thrower in your family (and we all have one) "Oxygenated Morons" is an interesting read. At times I felt that I was trapped in Alice's Wonderland and was reminded of this being said, "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" And also, the Mock Turtle in that works, saying this, "We called him Tortoise because he taught us."

I was also reminded of my father-in-law, who is the pun thrower in our clan, and found myself smiling and nodding when coming across a bit of "wisdom" that was something I know he would say.

Louis Dvoretzky has compiled an interesting bit of reading that, taken in small doses, could possibly make one think, laugh, groan, smirk, acknowledge his wisdom or even slam the book shut. Well done!

Holy mackerel -- what a work of genius!.......2005-08-25

The author obviously skipped his Distemper shot again THIS month, because this compilation is a masterpiece. Read it through like a book, or open to pages at random -- you'll grin, chortle, guffaw, cackle out loud, and involuntarily send beverages shooting from your nose. This is perfect material for Masters of Ceremonies, humorists, stand-up or sit-down comics, and anyone who enjoys laughing. It's great for coffeetables and bathroom-reading, too. Get it now or risk being cheated in the humor department!

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