Summary: In this book, author Ronald Kessler attempts to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into protecting the President of the United States, as well as other high-profile people. The author begins with a brief history of the Secret Service, and then talks about how the agency grew into its current role [...]
Summary: In A Slobbering Love Affair, subtitled “The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media” author Bernard Goldberg shows a number of ways in which the media basically gave Barack Obama a pass during the 2007 primaries and the 2008 presidential campaign. Time and time again, [...]
Summary: Michael Oher is a hulking mass of a teenager who is essentially homeless due to his mother’s drug addictions. Michael has been staying with friend Steve Hamilton and his family, but that situation is precarious. Steve’s father “Big Tony” does what he can to help Michael, which includes talking the football coach at [...]
My uncle had a heart attack a couple years ago, and ever since then I’ve been trying to help him live a healthier lifestyle. He had to give up smoking, obviously, and cut way, way back on his drinking. He also exercises a bit more than he used to and is more conscious about [...]
One of my goals for this summer is to turn my backyard into a nice retreat for my family. Right now there’s not much to it, but we’re going to spring for some professional landscaping, a new deck, and a jungle gym/swing set for my son. That should go a long way towards making [...]
Summary: Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser takes readers behind the scenes of some of the nation’s biggest fast food chains to show how the industry has impacted the American way of life. According to Schlosser, the rise of McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, et al. led to massive changes in agriculture, city planning and [...]
Summary: After enjoying essayist David Sedaris’ most recent collection of humorous anecdotes, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, I decided to give some of his earlier works a look, mostly because I’d heard that the early stuff was even better. So I recently checked out the audio version of Me Talk Pretty One Day [...]
I’m a fan of the “for Dummies” book series, and have several of their titles on my shelves. But when I came across this one, called Vitamins for Dummies, I just had to shake my head. Do people really need a whole book to tell them how important vitamins and minerals are? Seriously? The [...]
I’ve been reading some stuff about how important it is to keep your colon healthy because this organ can have an effect on lots of different bodily functions (besides the obvious ones). Actually, at the risk of providing too much information here, I wanted to learn about the benefits of colon cleanse products, and [...]
Summary: Fleeced, by former (now disgruntled) Clinton administration adviser Dick Morris, carries the very long subtitle of: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About [...]