Full Description
That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. It's targets are dumb-but-dangerous politicians, infantile-but-invasive preachers, saccharine-but-poisonous clichés, mindless entertainment, spineless media, and a national lifestyle marked by manic consumption and extravagant wastefulness, narcissistic complacency, pseudo-patriotism, and the idiotic worship of more idols than you could throw a verbal IED at. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the merely obnoxious, afflicting the American psyche and body politic, which it then proceeds to submerge in satirical acid. This probably doomed assault on American cluelessness is recommended to all readers who have recently found themselves snorting indignantly at the nonsense dripping out of TV sets, car radios, talk shows, cineplexes, and White House news briefings.
Contents
Chapter 1 1. Paddling through the Deluge
Chapter 2 2. Loonyland
Chapter 3 3. Scoundrels Swarming in Their Last Refuge
Chapter 4 4. A Nation of Make-Believers
Chapter 5 5. Natural Splendor, National Squalor
Chapter 6 6. Throwing Our Weight Around
Chapter 7 7. Wait, There's More!
Chapter 8 8. The Amerigun Way of Life
Chapter 9 9. From Barbarism to Decadence Without Passing through You-Know-What
Chapter 10 10. Hats Off, Guys
Chapter 11 11. The Canting of America
Chapter 12 12. It's Offal, It's Awful, It's All We've Got
Chapter 13 13. Sludge, Slime, and Saccharine
Chapter 14 14. What We're Really Good At
Chapter 15 15. "News" You can "Use"
Chapter 16 16. Feelthy Peektures of All-American Guys and Gals
Chapter 17 17. Mothers, Don't Let Your Daughters Grow up to be Blondes
Chapter 18 18. Up Close and Personal—Yecch
Chapter 19 19. Conservatism, Face to Face
Chapter 20 20. Culture Is So Over
Chapter 21 21. Wigger Nation
Chapter 22 22. American Catholic and Other Bright Lights
Chapter 23 23. Sexual Wisdom From the Horse's Ass
Chapter 24 24. Had Enough?
