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Search Amazon Search: Books Keywords: Search Powell's Find books about political humor at Powell's Books. Also see: Political Humor by P.J. O'Rourke and Political Humor Definitely More Fred... "Oprah? I remember her," said Uncle Hant reflectively. "Looks like five hundred pounds of bear liver in a plastic bag?" So go the essays in A Brass Pole in Bangkok, sometimes wildly funny, sometimes deadly serious, always merciless in their unmasking of the pretenses and charlatans of society. Fred, a former Marine, subscribes to no ideology ("an ideology is just a systematic way of misunderstanding the world") but exuberantly wreaks havoc on practically everything, and delights in everything else: the psychotherapy swindle, squalling feminists, race racketeers, damn fool wars, red-light districts in Asia, and tequila fests in Mexico, where he lives. Why marry, he asks? And answers: "As a young man full of dangerous steroids, your answer will probably be, 'Ah, because her hair is like corn silk under an August moon; her lips are as rubies and her teeth, pearls; and her smile would make a dead man cry.' This amounts to, 'I'm horny,' with elaborations." Behind the folksy approach lie a great deal of reading and thought by a man who has spent a lifetime in journalism, much of it overseas in places like Cambodia and Taiwan, where you find the snake butchers…but that is inside. A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire To Be, by Fred Reed Irreverent and Delighful A highly incorrect Washington columnist looks sourly at what used to be America in The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962. Insightful, often wildly funny social and political commentary, generally conservative, by a Washington columnist fed up with practically everything. The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962: Reflections on the Remains of My Country Fred Does It Again! Wildly funny, sometimes wacky, always provocative essays on the collapse of America by a Washington police reporter, former Washington editor for Harper's and staff writer for Soldier of Fortune magazine, Marine combat vet from Viet Nam, and former long-haul hitchhiker. Nekkid in Austin: Drop Your Inner Child Down a Well

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