Nothing is wrong and here is why : essays /
"These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
New York, NY : [2020] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: Welcome to the new physics!
- Part I: The brightest timeline. Chris Christie's wordless screaming
- Waiting for pivot: A GOP tragicomedy
- Nasty women
- Donald Trump and his sons will never talk business again
- The true, correct story of what happened at Donald Trump's inauguration
- Trumps' budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why
- Every story I have read about Trump supporters in the past week
- This is not a crisis, Republicans say, as a large spider slowly devours them
- What the ethics chief really wanted to say in his resignation letter
- A moderate speaks: by God, won't someone else take a stand?
- How Paul Manafort came by $934,350 in antique carpets
- Melania Trump wants to spend Christmas on a deserted island (with her family)
- The day Donald Trump first became a stable genius
- Welcome to the normal, low-end furniture store for Trump cabinet members
- Keep Scott Pruitt moist
- I'm beginning to suspect these were not, in fact, the best people
- How dare you do this to Brett Kavanaugh?
- The FBI has been very easy to reach about Brett Kavanaugh, and of course the report has been quite easy to read
- You are in Melania Trump's nightmare forest of cursed red trees. Keep to the path.
- Lock her up?
- My book report on The Mueller Report
- You think Trump's getting impeached? I defy you to convince anyone at this cursed truck stop.
- Part II: Routine nightmares and soothing fables. It is very difficult to get the train to stop
- A humanizing profile of your local neo-nazi
- Now Michelle and Ivanka are neighbors
- Why won't this career die?
- Raising baby Hitler
- You may already be running
- The privilege tree
- Part III: This follows. Excuse me, Director, I have some questions about my role in the spring play as a crisis actor
- Everything you wanted to know about deep state but were too scared to ask
- Some classic episodes of Trump's space force
- Welcome to AP U.S. History! Everyone say Hi to the tank and the 150 heavily armed men.
- Part IV: Modest proposals and other commentary. A good time to talk about gun laws
- I am sick of these children demanding safe spaces
- This magic is too strong to stop
- How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border
- Play the "woman card" and reap these rewards
- That five-year-old refugee has diabolical plans
- I will not take my husband's name
- Part V: How not to do things wrong. Famous quotes, the way a woman ought to say them in a meeting
- Some interpersonal verbs, conjugated by gender
- How to fact-check
- How to speak woman
- How to parent wrong
- What to call racist remarks instead of calling them racist remarks
- So, you must speak to the woman who is wearing headphones
- Part VI: Finally, we hear from men, measles, and a pigeon. Please stop vaccinating your children. I want to go to Disneyland.
- Sorry, I obey the Billy Graham rule
- I am a state legislator, and I am here to substitute-teach your biology class
- Male authors describe men in literature right
- Surprise! I'm back, and I atoned
- Without the swimsuit part of Miss America, when will I be able to judge women's appearances?
- I'm fine with women in power, just not this one specific woman currently in power
- I am in favor of Confederate statues. I am definitely not a pigeon