Nice people can have a Kampf, too

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Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics,
Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”

-- Boston Globe

"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."

-- New York Observer

“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING.”

-- John Hodgman,
author, The Areas of My Expertise and correspondent for The Daily Show

"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"

-- The Wall Street Journal

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."

-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Actually, what Jon and Mike have is a new humor collection, out just in time to not be in time for Christmas.

These guys don't just make me laugh; sometimes I just sort of lean back in my chair and applaud. Stuff in this book appeared everywhere from the New Yorker to the Village Voice to SNL's Weekend Update. And lots of it never got published. Thus the title, I presume, understandable to anyone who has to fight every damn day to get the funny out: Our Kampf.

The book absolutely, positively won't arrive overnight. But if it's a holiday gift, Jon has promised to personally call your loved one personally and apologize for its late arrival. (Seriously.) That's more than just good customer service. It's downright obsequious. And that's hard to find these days.

If you'd like a sample, I'd suggest this one, a Village Voice piece called "Why The _____s Hate The _____s: A Guide to All Ethnic and Religious Strife Through Human History."

And then Kampf it up, people. Kampf it up.

(If you really need an actual physical object delivered into somebody's hands, I've posted more gift ideas here. But you've only got, like, today and tomorrow left.)

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