{"id":37,"date":"2006-10-20T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/20\/entertaining-books-the-republican-playbook-anonymous-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T20:24:04","slug":"entertaining-books-the-republican-playbook-anonymous-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/10\/20\/entertaining-books-the-republican-playbook-anonymous-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining Books: The Republican Playbook; Anonymous Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two\u00a0funny books to recommend today. Let&#8217;s start with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRepublican-Playbook-Andy-Borowitz%2Fdp%2F1401302904%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1161369730%3Fie%3DUTF8&#038;tag=madeleibegunkane&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Republican Playbook<\/a>,<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=madeleibegunkane&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> by the always entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/\">Andy Borowitz.<\/a> Somehow or another Borowitz got hold of Dubya&#8217;s personally annotated copy of the GOP Bible.\u00a0(I&#8217;m betting pretzels were involved.) And, as Bush himself scribbles on the\u00a0back cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Note to self: this book contains all our dirtiest tricks&#8230; If it ever gets out, we&#8217;re toast. Make sure it doesn&#8217;t fall out of pocket while on bike!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very amusing read!<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of amusing reads, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLawyer-Novel-Jeremy-Blachman%2Fdp%2F0805079815%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1161371055%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=madeleibegunkane&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Anonymous Lawyer, by Jeremy Blachman,<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=madeleibegunkane&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> made me laugh out loud. You may already be familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com\/\">Blachman&#8217;s blog of the same name.<\/a>\u00a0 Well the book is even better, a satirical look at\u00a0law firm life from the viewpoint of a\u00a0fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city.\u00a0 It reminded me why I don&#8217;t practice law anymore, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Funny Books, Andy Borowitz, The Republican Playbook, Jeremy Blachman, Anonymous Lawyer, Books Reviews[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two\u00a0funny books to recommend today. Let&#8217;s start with The Republican Playbook, by the always entertaining Andy Borowitz. Somehow or another Borowitz got hold of Dubya&#8217;s personally annotated copy of the GOP Bible.\u00a0(I&#8217;m betting pretzels were involved.) And, as Bush himself scribbles on the\u00a0back cover: Note to self: this book contains all our dirtiest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,8,2,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}