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    <body><![CDATA[I love PJ O'Rourke, and this is a great book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke has the same political acuity as people like George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell.  He also has a funny vein so deep and rich that it seems endless. When his combines these two things you have some of the most razor-sharp political and cultural writing and humor ever to come...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54211734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a review of the book, not the audio book. Still, funny deconstruction of that monstrous behemoth, the useless American Government.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[P.J.'s best. The idiocy of Washington dissected in a funnym funny way. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I prefer to call them a parliament of street walkers or hookers.. or even &quot;strawberry ho's&quot; or for that matter escorts that are not in it for the money they just like to fuck. i call the senate the &quot;john&quot; the supreme court the &quot;pimp&quot; and the congress the happy hooker.. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35328852">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Published during the first Bush administraion, this satircal examination of government by the former editor of the National Lampoon may be a bit dated with some of its details. Yet its criticisms are still pertinent. O'Rourke makes point after point about how bloated, wasteful and deceptive those in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74102169">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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