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Well-Armed Fanatics,
Intractable Conflicts,

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“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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Wiffle.  The sport of kings.

Invented, by the way, by the Moghul rulers of India, for whom it had great religious significance before it was bastardized by British imperialists who converted it to cricket, which became rounders, which became town ball, which became baseball.

The above is complete nub-droppings, by the way.  But when you're risking the league's second broken collarbone by diving for a ten-cent plastic sphere as it rolls through an uneven patch of ground we call Clavicle Alley, that millisecond sure feels a lot more dignified if you can imagine centuries of split-rail bats, men named Winthorp, and statues of Ganesh behind you.

Mock if you must.  But we've still outdrawn the NHL this year.