Unread book review

The best-selling book this Christmas season seems to be America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show staff. It's not a book you read from cover to cover--you dip in.

I've been dipping in here and there and must say so far I've been disappointed. The jokes would do for a daily topical monologue, perhaps, but ultimately aren't smart enough. National Lampoon did this sort of satirical comedy far better years ago. And for laughs based on history, let me suggest you read (or re-read) Our Dumb Century from The Onion.