BRAINLESS

Reviewed 4/12/2007

Brainless, by Joe Maquire

BRAINLESS
The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter
Joe Maquire
New York: William Morrow, 2006

Rating:

4.5

High

ISBN-13 978-0-06-124350-9
ISBN 0-06-124350-7 204pp. HC $21.95

Errata

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".
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