Description:
A popular columnist for the Washington Post and commentator for ESPN's The Sports Reporters, Kornhesier continues to chew on the big issues that he tackled in Pumping Irony. His monologue-like columns enjoy, to say the least, a good rant. He opines outrageously, for example, on the oxymoronic logic of up-to-the-minute medical "breakthroughs." A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that doctors who have one or two daily drinks are less likely to suffer heart attacks. "Should we," asks Kornheiser, "be concerned that the study was conducted on doctors?" From the momentous details of Amerika-the-Commercial ("I have the new Michael Jordan Cologne in my office... a sample card that I picked up at Foot Locker.... I sniffed the card, found the odor rather perky, left it on my desk, and thought nothing more about it until my friend Nancy walked in the office and asked me if I'd had the carpet sprayed for scarab-beetle infestation.") to the mock sublime (his 13-year-old daughter going off to summer camp), this irrepressible humorist will give you the stamina to consider the absurdities of angst-ridden modern life.
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