The Smarmy Carny

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On May 31, the paperback version of Bill Clinton's My Lies was released. Instead of wasting your money on this fodder, why not get a hardcover book released on the same day. Instead of My Life, check out Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.

The blurb for this book mentions following "the lives of eight women who crossed romantic paths with Bill Clinton" (including Hillary, I presume). So, that means that Slick Willy had some seven women, and those are just the publicly acknowledged ones.

Seven women? I'm not sure about you, but I was raised to think that two women were sort of too many for a married man. After Wilt Chamberlain heard this, he decided to run for Presidential office in 2008! There must be at least one woman we don't know about because there are only seven women and there were eight years. And don't try to tell me that one year was for Hillary. We don't buy into that here!

Candice E. Jackson's Their Lives chronicles how the Bill and Hillary Clinton's inner circle bribed, intimidated, and harassed seven women who had once been the objects of Bill's lustful desires. The author — a feminist libertarian — does not condemn Bill's philandering ways, but rather in great detail exposes how the Clintons' liberal politics allowed them to justify their attacks against these individuals.

Kathleen Willey calls Their Lives "the most accurate portrayal of…the true nightmare Bill and Hillary put me through."

What has really gotten my goat about all this is that, if you remember the campaigns during Bill's first run, a huge issue during debates was "family values." I'm quite interested in reading about Bill's family values. Buy it today!

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The subject of economics is boring as far as I'm concerned . . . unless, of course, the subject is being discussed by Steven D. Levitt.

The first few chapters deal with questions like "What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?" "How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?" and "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?" Levitt's answers will surprise you.

Whereas the vast majority of economists look for the simple, obvious explanation or solution, Levitt has the ability to think so far out of the box that he's thinking in a separate, correct box. He also seems to have a knack for pulling out the truly interesting examples that tend to spark one's interest.

Levitt brings some refreshing creativity to an age where scientists are too focused on empirical results.

All that aside, I am attracted to anything that includes "Freak" in the title. So, when I heard about a book titled Freakonomics , I simply had to give it a chance.

Stay tuned, as I will be posting a follow-up to this regarding Freakonomics in a few days.