Why Americans Hate Things That Are Wrong

LCanal · 04-25-2005, 04:40 AM

It's a book and maybe I've got the title wrong. I'd like to read it if someone point me in the right direction.

This was stimulated by "Has our intelligence dropped to zero already? " in Current Affairs.

mrnoodle · 04-26-2005, 04:33 PM

Dude. Americans love things that are wrong.

Undertoad · 04-26-2005, 09:27 PM

I hate this question for being so utterly vague

LCanal · 04-26-2005, 09:45 PM

UT,

I just need some help with the title. Thought someone might know. Tried Amazon etc.
Just trying to understand....

wolf · 04-27-2005, 12:43 AM

The problem in finding the book may relate to a mistranslation of the title (or a foreign edition title that's not the same as the American release). Do you have any more information with respect to what the book is about, or who wrote it? that may help a lot.

LCanal · 04-27-2005, 11:18 PM

My friend just returned from Singapore with this. "Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" so I'll read it and see.

Wolf. it's not just foreign edition titles it's not buying it when you first see it and then trying to scrape the bottom of the memory barrel
Thanks again

Lunaephiliac · 05-01-2005, 07:10 PM

Books like this only feed my paranoia.

lumberjim · 04-27-2005, 07:48 AM

this?

LCanal · 05-02-2005, 05:42 AM

Thanks LJ,

I see if I can get my hands on one.

By the way how's your brother Jack

wolf · 05-01-2005, 09:08 PM

My paranoia no longer needs to be fed. It's pretty much self-sustaining.

Actually, it stopped being paranoia some time ago, and graduated to reality.

Except for the little bit about "when the welfare checks don't cash." I'm saving that one for about 2.35 years into the next Democratic administration

Happy Monkey · 05-01-2005, 09:14 PM

Because it will take longer than that to fix Bush's deficit?

04-25-2005, 04:40 AM	#1
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Why Americans Hate Things That Are Wrong It's a book and maybe I've got the title wrong. I'd like to read it if someone point me in the right direction. This was stimulated by "Has our intelligence dropped to zero already? " in Current Affairs. __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

04-26-2005, 04:33 PM	#2
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Dude. Americans love things that are wrong. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

04-26-2005, 09:45 PM	#4
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	UT, I just need some help with the title. Thought someone might know. Tried Amazon etc. Just trying to understand.... __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

04-27-2005, 12:43 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The problem in finding the book may relate to a mistranslation of the title (or a foreign edition title that's not the same as the American release). Do you have any more information with respect to what the book is about, or who wrote it? that may help a lot. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-27-2005, 11:18 PM	#6
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	My friend just returned from Singapore with this. "Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" so I'll read it and see. Wolf. it's not just foreign edition titles it's not buying it when you first see it and then trying to scrape the bottom of the memory barrel Thanks again __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

04-26-2005, 09:27 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I hate this question for being so utterly vague

05-01-2005, 07:10 PM	#7
Lunaephiliac Nice people frighten me. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle. Yes, it's raining. Posts: 47	Books like this only feed my paranoia. __________________ Well, obviously no one is going to give you a nickel every time something common happens, so stop using that idiotic phrase. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished, persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. -Mark Twain

04-27-2005, 07:48 AM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	this? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-02-2005, 05:42 AM	#9
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Thanks LJ, I see if I can get my hands on one. By the way how's your brother Jack __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

05-01-2005, 09:08 PM	#10
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	My paranoia no longer needs to be fed. It's pretty much self-sustaining. Actually, it stopped being paranoia some time ago, and graduated to reality. Except for the little bit about "when the welfare checks don't cash." I'm saving that one for about 2.35 years into the next Democratic administration __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-01-2005, 09:14 PM	#11
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Because it will take longer than that to fix Bush's deficit? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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