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I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight Review

Many people in America are asleep. A lot of them don't vote, a lot of them just don't care.

This book is a departure from her last memoir. The last was personal, this one is political.

Margaret is making the reader aware of the things that they wouldn't necessarily know.

For instance, I didn't know Rev. Jesse James did not support the gay community. Every chance he gets he holds a press conference when someone is discriminated against because of their skin color. WHICH I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH. But he doesn't feel the same way about gay causes. Margaret sees, and I agree, racism and homophobia as the same thing-that's who you are-that's how you were born-you can't change that.

The cool thing about Margaret is that she finds HUMOR in things that aren't really funny. Better to laugh than cry I always say.

She talks about Bush, Emmett Till, homophobics, racists etc etc

Thank you Margaret for telling it like it is. I appreciate the journey.

I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight Overview

A survival guide to making it through to 2008 and a hilarious, kick-ass call-to-arms.

Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours

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Great Book for Fans of the Cho - D. Lipp - NYC
Margaret Cho is revered in many circles, especially the queer one, for her outspoken beliefs and quick acerbic wit. In her book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, she takes on many taboo topics of society today including abortion, gay marriage, and racism in America. She shares her very liberal point of view on all the topics and points out the many flaws in the conservative rational.

Among the many entertaining aspects of her book, the letters Cho writes to President Bush and Reverend Al Sharpton are so funny and on the mark it makes Cho seem even more brilliant if that is possible. For a humorous, political book that pokes fun at nearly everything conservative, check this one out.

--Corey Crossfield

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Condescending and Boring - J. Coyle - Cincinnati, OH
I agree with so many other posters- Cho's comedy and anger works in 30-minute chunks on Comedy Central, but in a book it's a real turn-off. I'm a politically liberal, adult white female and I didn't feel "oppressed" enough to be part of Cho's audience, and her "call to fight" felt contrived and redundant. She neglects to figure that people reading her book would tend to be sympathetic with her views - most of them- and rants and rails as though she must convince the reader that

a) she is right and
b) white men are two-legged demons.

Don't waste your time. For the same effect you could stand in a quiet room for five minutes, fuming, listing every racial slur you can think of before finishing with "... stand up and fight!" and you'd get the same result.





Please stick to comedy, Margaret - Visa - Bethlehem, PA
I can see why this is only going for a penny. Thankfully I got it for free at the library. I just read the first chapter and it is going back. It is childish to say the least. In fact, I thought I was listening to a freshman.........in high school. She annouces that she is uneducated and proves it quickly. If you think critically, like I do, you find find this painful to read or listen too. The total lack of objective thought is worse than Michael Moore. In fact, unlike his interesting propaganda, this is just flat out boring and amaturish. Had this been her first attempt at any form of show business, she would be working in a restaurant for a long time. Don't waste yours by reading this.


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Fun is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career (Your Coach in a Box) Review

When I was 10 years, I wrote Bill Veeck--the innovative baseball
promoter--a letter . . . he responded, and that began a period
of occasional letters that ended when he died several years
later . . . his creativity inspired me then--and still does to this day.

I still chuckle at some of the things that Veeck did to enliven
the game . . . he introduced exploding scoreboards, popularized
postgame fireworks and provided nurseries at the ballpark for
children . . . in addition, he staged special nights for every
group imaginable and was the first to popularize ballpark
giveways.

His son, Mike Veeck, has carried on his legacy with a series
of equally unique promotions that he writes about with co-author
Pete Williams in FUN IS GOOD . . . but you don't have to be a baseball fan to love this
book, in that the ideas contained can be applied to any
profession . . . or as the subtitle points out, you'll learn
HOW TO CREATE JOY & PASSION IN YOUR
WORKPLACE & CAREER.

Many times, authors promise outrageous things in their
titles and/or subtitles . . . this is not the case here;
Veeck and Williams actually show you how this can be
done in a step-by-step approach that's both easy to
follow and apply.

I kept jotting notes down as I read FUN IS GOOD, which is
always a good sign . . . it means that I plan to go back to use
much of it . . . the only negative to this practice is that it makes
it difficult to choose just a few ideas to share in this brief
review, in that there were so many . . . yet that said, these
tidbits did stand out:

* If you're someone still trying to find your way, let your passions
serve as your guide. Look for environments where people are having
fun. When I hire people, I seek out passionate folks with an array
of interests, no matter how eclectic. If I need an accountant, for
instance, I don't look for just someone with the proper credentials.
I go in search of an experienced accountant with other interests,
someone I know might not only be fun to be around by perhaps
have non accounting skills that might be valuable. Perhaps this
person is a fly-fisherman or guitar player. That kind of focus
and creativity manifests itself in the workplace

* Jim Lucas, who was the assistant general manager of our Charleston
RiverDogs team a few years ago, issued pins to 10 or 15 fans before
each game, with instructions to give them to employees who
provided great customer service. The 3 employees who collected
the most pins at the end of the season received cash prizes.
These pins cost us only about 60 cents apiece, but you would have
thought they were precious gemstones. Employees proudly
displayed them on hats and worked tirelessly to obtain them.
Since nobody knew who had the pins, everyone was treated
extraordinarily well by employees with upbeat attitude.

* You don't need a ballpark to try things like Mime-O-Vision. [Veeck
hired a bunch of mimes to reenact plays before instant replays
became popular.] Years ago, people would win shopping sprees
where they had 90 seconds to grab whatever they could. Pizzerias
would award a year's worth of pizza to the winner of a pie-eating
contest. My dad used to say that it's barely noteworthy to give
one bottle of beer to each of a thousand fans, but it's a big deal to give
a thousand bottles of beer to one lucky winner.

Looking for an idea holiday gift this upcoming season? You
certainly won't go wrong giving FUN IS GOOD to somebody
you care about . . . or want to inspire.

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A fun workplace creates a culture of creativity where people want to workand customers want to do business. Thats the simple philosophy of sports executive and seminar leader Mike Veeck, who has used this approach to turn six minor-league baseball teams into major multi-million-dollar businesses. Veecks three-word mottofun is goodholds the key to empowering our people, our workplaces and ourselves. He demonstrates how a sense of joy and humor can turn a company around or push a stalled career into overdrive. Drawing on his own experience and the success stories of clients and other people who have benefited from his philosophy,Veeck reveals how fun, creativity and passion can bring out the best in an organization or individual, and explains: Why customer service suffers when employees arent having fun at workand why that matters How a few people with the Fun is Good attitude can transform a workplace What companies should look for when hiring How anyone can forge a Fun is Good career Veecks inspiring message applies to anyonetop executives, entry-level employees, and everyone in between. And his philosophy can have a broad range of applicationsfrom family to the office to midlife career choices. A breakthrough, one-of-a-kind approach to job fulfillment, FUN IS GOOD can help all of us get the most out of our work lives both in and out of the office.

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not practical for real businesses - Coffee Snob - cincinnati, ohio
the advice is fine if you are running a baseball team or some entertainment oriented company, possibly even a web-based retail company. However, if you have a real business with tough competition and a product to make, it is isnt practical.

advice for the boss includes putting the coffee maker in your office so people come talk to you.
That is great advice if you have absolutely no responsibility to produce deliverables.

anyway, the book is cute and many workplaces could benefit from a less serious attitude, but this one was almost as useful as Magic Johnson's book on how to run a business (with fame and almost unlimited capital, how hard can it be?)







Laugh a Minute - Eric Marmont - Gilbert, AZ USA
Mike Veeck and Pete Williams will keep you laughing throughout the entire book. Great example why you shouldn't take yourself to seriously and have fun with life.





Fun Is Good...Is Great! - Knowledge is Power -
What a great formula for business success! I love the philosophy behind this wonderful way to run a company and a career. Laughter is definitely more than the "Best Medicine" as this book shows....it can lead to higher profits and a real jump up the ladder of success!







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The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest Review

Funny, Funny, Funny! And a no brainer. I purchased this for bathroom reading material. Suitable for all ages.

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Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards III includes more than one hundred brand new, hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures.

From a sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice, to the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw; from a farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag to the man crushed by the branch he just trimmed, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it like we do.

Featuring scientific and safety discussions and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.

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Still Improving the Pool - Bu-Chan - Aotearoa
Northcutt's foray into the epic stupidity of some people in their efforts to improve the human species continues with the third installment "The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest". The format basically remains the same as in The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection, (see my review there for a rundown), with discussions introducing each chapter and the same categorisation of stories. In this volume, the Urban Legends are dropped, (wisely so, I thought).

While not as funny as the previous volume overall, there are gems that reduce one to tears of choking laughter, whereas this impact was lacking for me in the previous volume. Generally, this volume is not as funny, but what is very funny is really, really funny indeed. A point in case is "Fuzzy Fights Back", where a guy tries to determine the sex of a bear. I won't say more about the story, but it reduced me to chokes and gasps for oxygen. There are some pearls such as Fuzzy, and they redeem the book from mediocrity.

Again, as I mentioned in my review for The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection, the humour is defintely not everyone's cup of tea, and should be treated with caution by those of more mainstream tastes. However, if laughing at the self-inflicted, unintentional demises of those who sacrifice themselves to the evolutionaary spirit is your thing, you will probably find a good giggle or two in this current installment of The Darwin Awards.





Not bad overall - Ash Ryan - Salt Lake City, Utah
Most of the tales are amusing, several are laugh-out-loud hilarious, but a few border on the tragic/tasteless. Overall, not bad. Worth a read if you're bored and want a good chuckle.





Not worth reading... - Chad Oberholtzer - Boalsburg, PA, USA
When I bought this book at a significant discount, I expected that I would find it moderately charming with lots of funny stories and witty insight about the demise of fools. Quite frankly, the stories were not funny and the insight was not witty.

I agree with other reviewers that the rules and regulations in the book was ridiculously cumbersome. This book just takes itself way too seriously. I don't care how the stories were selected, so much as I'd like to read stories that were interesting.

I haven't read any previous editions of "The Darwin Awards," so I cannot attest to the suggestion that the well is running dry. I will simply state that I found many of the anecdotes to be far from fascinating, many of them downright boring. And at the end of the day, I just have a hard time laughing at the death of humans, regardless of the stupid choices that they may have made to bring about their demise.

Ultimately, I chose not to give it one star because the book did provide what it promised. I probably should have known that this type of supposed humor just wouldn't resonate with me. Nonetheless, I found the book to be cold and stale, and I now have no interest in investigating anything further from this perspective.


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The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design Review

The Darwin Awards, as described by Wendy Northcutt at darwinawards.com, is a non-competition of sorts with specific rules for the "winners." This book explains the rules, the basis for "winning" and for those runner-ups who failed to complete the program rules to its fullest extent or whose tale of woe wasn't as "good" as the "winners."

Not to sugar-coat this explanation any further, the purpose (or non-purpose) of the Darwin Awards is to declare the person who killed or neutered themselved in the most absurdly ridiculous way is the "winner."

Still, in reading the book, there is a certain amount of entertainment: a moment or two or three of focusing on another goal has distracted someone from seeing a danger that a more detached viewer (us, for example) can see and avoid. It's the same kind of idea that would cause any of us, except those reading this review, of course, to climb up on a stool placed on a chair to change a lightbulb in a dark place. The danger factor comes into play when the amount of damage that one can do to oneself is added in.

Then there is the alcohol factor. There are plenty of stories in the book about the dangers of excessive drinking and then attempting to do something hazardous, and for this there is no explanation. Perhaps the "winners" were calm, contemplative people prior to imbibing too much, which gave them a false sense of indestructability, which was then exposed as a faulty myth. Most of us have drunk too much at some time or another; some probably have done something rather risky when drunk; fortunately, none of us are award "winners."

All in all, it is an entertaining book exposing the faults of thinking and acting by people at a particular time and place. After reading this book, perhaps we're all capable of doing ourselves terminal harm; perhaps the stories in here prove that most people reading the book aren't foolish enough to do something fatal. But maybe if we knew what kind of mistakes others are capable of, we can avoid the same situations.

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A fourth installment of stories honoring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion! To be released in the fall of 2006 simultaneously with The Darwin Awards motion picture, starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes! The author has appeared in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The (NY) Daily News, Boston Herald, Publisher Weekly, BookPage and CNN.com.

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Customer Reviews

Intelligent Design - Runa Zaman - Charlottesville, VA, USA
While I did enjoy the opening essays detailing the history of the Darwin Awards, the essays written at the beginning of each chapter just served, for the most part, to bore me. It was, however, interesting to learn how these awards are submitted and chosen, as one who is not a user of the Darwin Awards website. But there's really not that much positive that I can say about the book. I still got really annoyed with the personal accounts, because NO, just because someone you know did it, doesn't actually mean it's at all funny. The opening essays, as I mentioned, were boring and poorly written. Something that's always bothered me about the Darwins is that the awards themselves are, without a doubt, written exaggeratedly. It's still interesting when you write what happened. It's still ridiculously stupid and makes you wonder how these people managed to exist in the first place, but do they need all these *adjectives*? There's just no need for exaggeration, the stories are freaking HILARIOUS without them. I did wish to see more reader comments, those were just added snark on top of the idiocy.

Rating: 3/5










SCARY...BUT ENTERTAINING - Joseph H. Race - SAIPAN, MP United States
Some of those fools are out there everyday, driving cars, shooting guns, handling explosives, etc. The concept is that the fools will remove themselves from the gene pool and the human species will somehow improve and prosper. Unfortunately these goofy characters often take innocent souls with them to the looney bin or the morgue, and that what's scary for me when I'm on the freeway or out hiking/fishing/hunting. This book looks again at some of these off-base characters; and it is downright entertaining as long as you're not in their path of destruction. I liked this complilation as well as the others, because it is a fun, easy read, and even makes you realize that some of your relatives are not all that bad and not deserving of a Darwin Award. The editors might consider doing a whole book on the elected politicans in Washington, DC.





Funny but Sad - Origins Muse - Florida, USA
Northcutt has continued in a series that looks at human nature and asks why we take silly chances that many times result in our own demise. At least that is how this series of books started. At this point (her 4th book) it feels like she has stopped asking why and is happy to just laugh at others misfortune. If this is your first read in the series then you will most likely enjoy it very much. If you have read all of the books, like I have, then you may end up feeling a bit dysphoric as I did after finishing this one. Maybe it's just me and the fact that I am getting older.

Northcutt wasn't the originator (pun intended) of the Darwin Awards idea (as she makes clear in the book), but she has certainly "evolved" the idea to her own pecuniary advantage. Her background in Molecular Biology is apparent in the short essays that introduce each section (some are by Northcutt and some by other authors). I find it unfortunate that Northcutt takes every opportunity to bash organized religion and the beliefs of Christians who think different from herself on the issues of Human Origins. It is this type of elitist egoism that drives a wedge between scientists and Christian fundamentalists and encourages both sides to ignore what the other is saying. Too bad.

She also has a nice website that can give you a daily dose of this type of humor. The review process for a story to make the book is a rigorous one indeed.


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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Word for Word), Unabridged Edition Review

This series of radio tales is absolutely crazy science-fiction in the cosmic technological line. And the first theme and style is English humour. Every detail is turned technical and purely absurd gibberish language that means nothing but sounds logical. But we are constantly teased and titillated with impossible or improbable events or peripetias that we are to share and enjoy, such as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall that was thin anyway, and what's more in the thickest thickness of the Cold War. The enjoyable pleasure of a cup of tea is turned ridiculous in the name of good nutrition and personal computerized pleasure requirements. And of course it has to fit in a cosmic vision of fate and human destiny as understood and interpreted by a computer, thought out by a gorilla and built and assembled by a wolf and/or hyena. All that condensates in the concept of Vogun, the conception of such a being called a Vogun whose only objective is to rationalize the life of everyone and the whole cosmos, and that means essentially killing "them" all, those beings of all types or forms, particularly human, to clean up the mess this cosmos has been since it was authorized to follow its own dynamism, its own enjoyment that implies the thriving of all kinds of life-loving desires that are identified to morbid tendencies that enjoy the rotting cycle of life and death. Voguns want to get the cosmos out of this cycle. The best way is to get rid of life. Then death would not exist anymore nor the cycle that leads to death. In other words Voguns are the slaves of the desire to be eternal in death, if possible the death of everyone and everything except them. Umbilical, selfish, psychotic, fatal and lethal paranoid schizophrenia. Incomprehensible, dixit Douglas Adams. But very clearly intellectually easy to swallow onanistic capsules of self exhilaration. If you find this abstract construction just ludicrous, the author will answer that such an attitude is the result of three both intellectual and existential mistakes in living and thinking styles, i.e. ignorance, stupidity and nothing else, the third one being of course the most important symptom of real world fetichism in a world of virtuality or even virtual reality. We are now in a time when the unspeakable is summed up in one word, belgium, the ultimate insult to rational cosmic destiny. And that destiny is of course run and read in twelve episodes, like the 12 apostles, the 12 stations of the Way of the Cross, the 12 months of the year, the 12 hours of each half-day or even the 12 eggs or oysters in a dozen even when you get 13 in each dozen as a reward for your courage to eat live organisms like oysters, or live chicken foetuses like eggs. Let them live please. To keep pr�cis about it, it all boils down to the number 578 which is nothing but twice seventeen square. Simple isn't it? And if you don't get it it's because the feet of your brain are the wrong size for your intellectual shoes and I would advise you to change feet and start running like the foot warriors you should have never forgotten you were, you are, you will be forever and ever, which by the way makes you equal to God himself who was who is who will come. We are all pedestrians who at times get on the phony omnibus of the imagination of a computerized mind trying to trek after stars that have never existed except in the obscure lightless both right and left brains of the author of this fantasy. And it all ends with a couple of weddings, a ranting and raving vexed auto-pilot, and a reality on the blink in a first class compartment on a stranded plane, and it all was but a 3D virtual world devised in the office of some bureaucrat or some bureaucrats on a dy when it rained too much to be able to push pencils. Try to get aboard on the thirteenth episode, if it exists anywhere.

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One Thursday lunchtime Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has just had his house demolished that morning, this is more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very large and startling place indeed.

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I searched high and low for this exact audio cassette version of HHGTTG - Kimberly Fedchak - Philadelphia, PA, USA
I first took these tapes out of my local library in the 1980's. Recently I remembered how funny they were, and I searched online to see if I could find them. I accidentally purchased other recorded versions, including one read by the author, and what I realized was that the quality of the narration on all the other versions could not match the delivery given by the narrator and actors on this set. These guys are really, really top-notch. Not enough credit is given to them as performers. They include: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Peter Jones as The Book, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Susan Sheridan as Trillian. This version was produced by Geoffrey Perkins. The set includes six tapes, or 12 hours of material. Enjoy!










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I must say that this is one of the greatest books I've read. At first I thought " thousand pages,that's too much, I don't have the energy to do this". So I sat down and started to read, This is quite good, I thought. Ten hours later I just had to admit it, the book had had me mesmerized, I just couldn't put it down ! For those who haven't read this book, I highly recommend you do ! I say: Giddyup !





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My friend persuaded me to read it, though I didn't need much persuading after reading the introduction!! Very, very funny, with humour reminiscent of the Goons and Monty Python.


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