When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin

Retrieved from: the library
(1401301347), 2004
Suggested by: me. I read everything Carlin. I try to watch him on TV whenever he shows up too. Big sad fan, that's me.
My Ratings: 6 Merit, 9 Interest, 8 Fun

Hint for those easily offended: don't even think about reading this man. His mission is to be offensive to EVERYone. Not just liberals, not just conservatives. The one person to whom I suspect he would gladly hand over his mantle is Bill Maher. And I think he suspects Maher of schmaltz.

But for those "yeah, why IS that?" moments in life, you can't beat Carlin. Some examples that I found funny, or at least provoking, which is his point really:

The United States most closely resembles a huge, poorly-thought-out sick joke.

I read an article that cautioned people against shaken-baby syndrome. Do people really need to be told this sort of thing? And if some people do need to be told, are these the kind of people who are very likely to heed the advice? Personally, I never shake a baby. Unless the recipe calls for it.

Don't you get tired of this simpleminded Laura Bush nonsense about children reading, or reading to children, or teaching children to read, or reading to children about teaching, or whatever the fuck it is? What is it with these Bush women? ... [T]hey should be encouraging children to question what they read. Content is far more important than the mere act of sitting with your mother and dragging your eyes across text. By the way, I noticed that, apparently, the idea of teaching children to read didn't work when Barbara Bush tried it on George.

The wrong two Beatles died first.

I'm still not sure about the pork chop question, but this is an interesting book to have around the house in the vicinity of a preteen or anyone who needs to use some of the brain cells a little more than usual. It will inspire some conversation, at the very least.