Category Archives: jon stewart

The Funniest Book Ever

May 28, 2007 – 4:01 pm

A collection of vignettes called Ant Farm by Simon Rich is the funniest book ever. I know that is a big statement, but it is true.
You must arrange to come in to possession of this book, but you can’t read it yourself. You have to find someone to read it to you (and then switch [...]

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“Antique, Illogical And Democratically Indefensible”

May 18, 2007 – 8:04 am

Recently, the Queen of England came and went (Carter had some interesting comments here in a post titled “Send the Queen Home”).
Isn’t it totally absurd that any modern country has a heredity ruler (figurehead, whatever)?
Jeremy Paxon (author of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families) was on the Daily Show with [...]

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Comedy Central Sells Books (to me)

April 14, 2007 – 7:50 am

I have used a Tivo since 1999 and have no clue what time shows are on since I haven’t watched one while it was being broadcast in almost a decade (and not just because time-shifting is a cool term).
Despite that, I do know that Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report are back to back since [...]

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The Starfish And The Spider

February 28, 2007 – 9:00 am

Craig Newmark was on the Jon Stewart show a couple of nights ago. He was talking about the concept of a distributed, somewhat leaderless organization.
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of the Leaderless Organization by Ori Brafman and Rod Becstrom is not exactly a detailed (i.e. scholarly) review of this concept, but [...]

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