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Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 390 6 2671046 2004 Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit total:62|5:11|4:22|3:19|2:8|1:2| 62 218 110 13 1038639 3.52 62 13 58091219 2333669 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.62 52
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 14:03:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 14:03:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 37106959 1280066 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 4 0 false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 07:33:54 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 07:56:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 53230333 2066074 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 5 0 false Sun Apr 19 10:21:06 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 10:32:42 -0700 2009
"In 1980, CEOs made 42 times the average worker's pay; by 1990,it had doubled; by 2000 their compensation had increased to 531 ti...more...]]> 22496445 1168037 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 4 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 13:17:59 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 16 13:12:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 22455401 724491 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 5 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 17:45:33 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 10:17:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 54755190 337271 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 5 0 false Sat May 02 22:06:10 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 22:06:36 -0700 2009 38167015 1129156 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 2 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 15:08:41 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 07:47:22 -0800 2008 13358293 823665 785757 1400081033 9781400081035 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178331935m/785757.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178331935s/785757.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785757.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.11 9
Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s.

Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.”

Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.

Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure.


Laura Penny on Bullshit:

There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin.

The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit.


“Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor.]]> 2004 1 0 false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jan 23 21:44:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 21:46:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 16467469 812952 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 3 0 false Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 26 17:47:47 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 23 21:42:49 -0800 2009 A scathing, easy, enjoyable fluff read that didn't really bring much new to the table. Wal-Mart is evil, pharmaceuticals are overused, the media is biased, a few people in America have all the power.
Yeah, so what else is new?
]]> 16144724 913315 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Feb 22 20:48:42 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 03:20:55 -0700 2008
PR firms make one thing and one thing only - Shit Up.]]> 9264547 625406 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 3 0 false Sun Nov 18 06:27:58 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 18 07:04:36 -0700 2008 341758 29240 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 3 0 false Tue Mar 20 09:58:49 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 17:59:50 -0700 2007 12690075 715998 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 16 14:03:45 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 14:04:07 -0800 2008 81534920 2305881 785757 1400081033 9781400081035 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178331935m/785757.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178331935s/785757.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785757.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s.

Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.”

Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.

Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure.


Laura Penny on Bullshit:

There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin.

The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit.


“Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor.]]> 2004 0 0 false Sat Dec 19 21:58:32 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 21:58:32 -0800 2009 81512754 3035391 6090334 077107042X 9780771070426 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/60/334/6090334-m-1256114052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/60/334/6090334-s-1256114052.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6090334.Your_Call_is_Important_to_Us 2.00 1
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 2 0 false Sat Dec 19 16:30:02 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 16:30:07 -0800 2009 80906603 1353392 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones]]> 2004 0 0 false Sun Dec 13 18:04:19 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 13:22:14 -0800 2009 80337515 2644988 390 1400081041 9781400081042 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184m/390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156913184s/390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390.Your_Call_Is_Important_to_Us_The_Truth_About_Bullshit 3.52 62
Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

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Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

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Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

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Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.


Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

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