The Lowe Down on Audiobooks

 

Magazines:

Costco Connection (June 2006, June 2009 and in 2011. Aug. 2023.) Audiofile: Sept 2001 (Dan Rather); Oct. 2004 (Alice Blanchard); April 2010 (Jonathan Davis); April 2011 (Brian Greene); Cracker Barrel (Lee Child, David Baldacci, James Patterson); Porthole Cruise Magazine: Dec. 1999 “Dial M for Mystery.” June 2003 (Chad Brock and Craig Morgan.) Cruising World with photographer Doug Barnard Oct. 1990 (John Caldwell.) Also Adventure Travel and Real People.  Sky & Telescope Dec 2007 “Mirror, Mirror.” April 2008 (Cover article “Tomorrow’s Monster Telescopes.”) Diversion Sept. 2003; Road King Aug. 2003 (Bobby Unser); Tucson Weekly Feb. 2009 (Cecil Licad); Land Line Nov. 2000 and ongoing; Plots with Guns, Over My Dead Body, Tucson Weekly, National Lampoon “Jack Kevorkian Reviews Suicide Notes.” Coast to Coast, Palm Springs Life, Los Angeles, International Living, and many literary journals such as Phoebe and Buffalo Spree. Arizona Highways (with photographer George Stocking, and later with Steve Bruno.) Tower Review (Anthony Heald, James Fallows, more.) Knew Ray Bradbury. See POST OFFICE CONFIDENTIAL: A MEMOIR for much more.

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” –Kurt Cobain (before he killed himself he said, “Humans are stupid. I’m ashamed to be human.”)

“People, even more than things, need to be restored.” –Audrey Hepburn

“The easiest way to lose audience in a society that rewards lying is to tell the truth.” —Hunter S. Thompson
“The truth doesn’t care what you believe.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
“To err is Jay Z, to forgive Beyonce.” —Walter Witty
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” –Tolstoy
“People are only open to change their beliefs if those beliefs are not part of their identity. When narcissists fail they invent excuses and blame others, just like victimhood believers who never take responsibility.” —Chris Leong
“People believe what they want to believe.” —Tab Hunter, first attributed to Julius Caesar
“People only hear what they want to hear.” —Paulo Coelho
“People who speak mere portions of truth in order to deceive are craftsman of destruction.” –Chris Jami
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” –Demosthenes
“Try not to be a man of success, try to be a man of value.” —Einstein, Time magazine’s only Person of the Century

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy
“One book, one teacher, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” —Malala, shot in the head for helping girls to read; youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize
“I am a proud non-reader of books.” —Kanye
“The less one reads the more violent they are. Violence and ignorance do go hand in hand.” —Ray Bradbury
“I wish I could party and be a jerk like some of my friends, and just not care about what’s happening, but I just can’t now. I’m grateful for opportunity I’ve been given, and that’s the truth.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
“Never be afraid to speak the truth and defy corruption. If everyone did that, it would change the Earth.” —William Faulkner

 
"Vaccines do not cause autism. They prevent many potentially fatal diseases, and while they are not 100% safe, it is far less safe not to administer." --Scientific American magazine 

The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. IDIOT AMERICA is a veteran journalist’s caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: *Any theory is valid if it sells books, albums, soaks up ratings, or goes viral on Youtube. *Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough. *'Fact' is that which most people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it. 

Charles Pierce has led a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, and now it’s time to salvage zero attention span culture, buried somewhere in all the viral cat videos and McNews. With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to watch TMZ, ESPN, or the Kardashians than to look for a good book to read.

 

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