Our #fridayreads, in time for the #obama inauguration. That's one classy paperback. #soshiny @time
simonbooks-blog reblogged
As part of our Monday reading series with God (@TheTweetofGod):
"You know the apocalypse is nigh when -
9/10 Joe Biden tells an interviewer President Obama is on top of the economy “like a chink on dumplings.”
9/11 On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Pakistani intelligence tells the U.S. it now believes a senior leader of al-Qaeda may be hiding somewhere near the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
9/12 Frogs rain from the sky all afternoon. They trail off into a light frog-drizzle by early evening. Then a mild night, with temps in the low 60s.
9/13 Everybody in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir marries everybody else.
9/14 A distant cousin he’d never heard of bequeaths Donald Trump his entire $6.66 billion estate.
9/15 Fox premieres its reality show, So You Think You Can Fly a Plane.
9/16 Extra-absorbency paper towels only perform at regular-absorbency levels."
- written by God (See: THE LAST TESTAMENT - yes, THE LAST TESTAMENT - penned by the Almighty, with the help of David Javerbaum, comedy writer and former producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.)
Read a chapter from “The Book of Revelations” in God’s memoir, THE LAST TESTAMENT.
You can follow God at your local church, synagogue, mosque, or on Twitter @TheTweetofGod.
New York Magazine piece places Michael Grunwald's THE NEW NEW DEAL at the intersection of BRILLIANT and HIGHBROW!
In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching as FDR’s New Deal, the Recovery Act is a down payment on the nation’s economic and environmental future, the purest distillation of change in the Obama era.
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