BRAINLESS The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter Joe Maquire New York: William Morrow, 2006 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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ISBN-13 978-0-06-124350-9 | ||||
ISBN 0-06-124350-7 | 204pp. | HC | $21.95 |
Page 86: | "Most of them 'for promoting sexual abstinence'."" |
Not a sentence. Probably Maquire intended it to be joined to the previous sentence. |
Page 87: | "A closer look at the wording shows that the 38 percent who merely thought it 'possibly true' shouldn't be lumped in with those that were certain." |
The origin of this figure of 38 percent is mysterious. Higher up the page, the text quoted from Coulter's Slander says it is 18 percent. |
Pages 90-91: | "Her counterargument? 'It [the Bible] doesn't have words like child rape, either, but that doesn't mean Christianity is ambiguous on the subject.' (Well no, it's not. Just ask any Catholic altar boy.)" |
This seems both irrelevant and a cheap shot. |
Page 110: | Separator at top of page |
Book production error: The separator is misplaced. |
Page 111: | "So, fine—let's accept the premise that the sympathetic senator was just trying to help. He didn't mean no harm." |
This book doesn't have no errors. One of them is a double negative. |
Page 122: | "Much of the recent flap over her statements about 9/11 have centered on how she has dealt with the so-called Jersey Girls..." |
Number error: SB "has". |
Page 131: | Separator in middle of page |
Book production error: The separator is misplaced. |
Page 148: | "...a guy named John Barrie—a professor and creator of program that detects plagiarism..." |
Missing article: S/B "creator of a program". |
Page 150: | "Which is interesting, given Ann's rather unflattering opinion of the Paper of Record." |
As a specific reference to the New York Times, this S/B "Newspaper of Record". |
Page 162: | "Lets move forward a couple millennia to Scottish philosopher David Hume, who published the seminal philosophical treatise An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding just a score of years before our Founding Fathers were dashing off what Ridgemont High's Jeff Spicoli rightfully refers to as the "cool rules" of our Constitution." |
This is a reference to a character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As Wikipedia's entry notes, this 1982 film has ascended to the status of cultural icon. Despite its fame, I feel that Maguire should have identified it more completely. |
Page 165: | "Like many proponents of creationism, Ann goes on and on about the intricacy of things like the human eye, DNA, and flagellum." |
Missing article: S/B "the flagellum". |