The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken

While my politics don’t neatly fall into any catagory ( calls me a “libertarian not worth his salt” because I believe in legalizing just about everything but keeping fire departments and probably public schools¹), I enjoy me some Al Franken.

What’s interesting is that his political books are getting progressively more serious. Rush Limbaugh was 75% wacky/25% serious political discussion. Liars about 50/50.

This one is about 85% serious critique of the current administration. The title is very apt. Serious discussion with a few jokes thrown in³.

I enjoyed it, and found it interesting. He makes a jest about running for congress, but after reading the book I wonder how much of a jest it is. It almost seems like he’s repositioning himself as a serious politician.

Anyway, good read.

——-

¹ I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a journal entry where I discussed my opinions on public schools that I could link to. Why on earth doesn’t LiveJournal have a search engine that would help me with that²?
²See how demanding I get when I’m a paid user? I’m insufferable.
³Al says there are only 2. I caught a few more.