Irregular Books

Greg Anrig works for a prominent think tank. That sounds like an asset, but it turns into a burden when Anrig cannot break away from logical arguments about how what ideas people should support. If only Anrig could embrace the power of persuasion, he’d be a lot closer to providing a useful plan for progressive regrouping. In politics, being correct matters much less than being perceived as correct.

there’s a lot I don’t understand about why people buy things. So, maybe instead of thinking my way to success in the book industry, I should just copy Scott McClellan’s approach and hope for the best. Here are the titles of some books I’m working on as of today, in the hopes that I can have book sales like McClellan:

This retrospective comes just as Irregular Times is releasing its new political reference guide, 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President. This new book is not an update of the 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush. It’s new material written just for this year. It also includes a much more extensive discussion of political issues that the 2004 book did. 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President is about three times as long as the 2004 reference guide, and so has had to be divided into two separate volumes: (See Volume One and Volume Two).

Al Franken wrote about timely events, but didn’t have much vision beyond the next year or two in his material. Satanic Panic was about events in the 1980s, but it was describing a cultural phenomenon that dates back to the Salem witch trials, and far beyond that

Perhaps we need a travelogue for why we have become liberals, or how we have moved within the land of liberalism. For that travel, a field guide to the different varieties of liberal might be useful too.

As is the case in every state, child welfare in Massachusetts is higher than the general poverty rate. However, in Massachusetts, the child poverty rate is even further below the national average than the general poverty level - just 13.6 percent. That’s half of the child poverty rate in some Republican-voting red states.

If reading The Golden Compass really has the power to transform people into transform teenagers into atheists, then how come there hasn’t been a dramatic increase in the number of young atheists in the time since The Golden Compass has been published? It’s been ten years since The Golden Compass was published, and in that time, millions of people have read The Golden Compass. Are there that many more atheists on Earth now than there were before?

The new political encyclopedia covers history, economics, war and peace, freedom, community, and education, as well as the follies of the Democratic and Republican parties. Here’s just one of the 2,008 reasons they’ve assembled for this book, to be published in January of the coming year:

In his new book, Alan Greenspan blasts the Republican Party as out of control, fighting war for oil, and deserving to lose power.