All the Trouble In the World
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The title of PJ O'Rourke's book being flogged by today's Book Bub. Here is the opener of its Acknowledgements:
"Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. Writing this book also required an enormous amount of help from enemies. Particularly I'd like to thank Vice President Al Gore for being the perfect straw man on such subjects as the environment, ecology and population. Sorry, Al, for repeatedly calling you a fascist twinkie and intellectual dolt. It's nothing personal. I just think you have repulsive totalitarian inclinations and the brains of a King Charles spaniel."
Gosh, I miss him. O'Rourke, not Algore.
