David Rakoff's book of essays is cracking me up.
I don't listen to NPR at all, so my first exposure to Rakoff's wit was on the Daily Show, riffing on a bit about Robert Knight of the Culture and Family Institute and Knight's claim that HIV wouldn't spread much via heterosexual sex because “the vagina can take a lot of punishment”. Jon Stewart can barely contain himself he laughs so hard.
Here's the crappy Viacom approved version of the YouTube clip, in two parts.
Not every essay is stellar, some are only good, but every piece so far has made me smile, or laugh out-loud. You probably could read the entire thing sitting in a bookstore coffee shop, if you were a cheapskate.
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