It's Safe to Laugh Again


	It's Safe to Laugh Again

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3-1-2008 2:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/27c47b2e-e695-4ad0-b85c-a6337ec62468/0D639D42-62F0-4953-90A7-383E492D57CC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu" style="font-size: 11px;">mail.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mail.google.com/img/1DA92493-E554-4BE5-A125-8C22B9921C31" alt="Young Dick Cheney, Great American" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu"><P>Last November, two guys showed up at AlterNet's doorstep carrying the manuscript for a book. It was called <A target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SRCyhJzeZWNUBMqk48QoGn45ljphzGno"><EM>Young Dick Cheney: Great American</EM></A>; and although it had been written to satirize classic children's biographies, this book was clearly intended for grown-ups. Politically minded, frustrated, angry grown-ups tired from eight years of banging their heads against the wall and desperate for a good laugh.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu"><P>Well, we gave the book a read, and we did laugh. A lot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FFpiHyrLAtc0u5BRdsR5A90oF37lknze">Bruce Kluger and David Slavin</A>, the authors of this irreverent boyhood memoir, are no strangers to satire. Regular contributors to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," their humor has appeared everywhere from the <EM>L.A. Times</EM> and <EM>The New York Times</EM> to Salon and Huffington and AlterNet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ymdfwq781tpu"><P>Kluger and Slavin asked us to roll the dice and publish their book. 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