Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian by Brad Stine
Up and Down throughout the book Published in 2006 by Hudson Street Press Stine comments on any number of popular culture items, including tobacco, abortion, God in public schools, baseball, Las Vegas, banning guns, bumper stickers and Wal-Mart. Each little rant comes in short chapters averaging around 4 pages each. Now, my review: I wanted to love this book (since I am the exact target for this book: a Christian, a conservative and I am a proud resident of Indiana - a red state since LBJ in 1964 with the exception of Barack Obama in 2008) but I could barely get myself to like it. Brad Stine First and foremost, I quickly grew tired of the publisher's decision to pull little tidbits out of the text and highlight them with a box right next to the text that contains the exact same sentence? What was the point of that? Secondly, Stine blames everything in the world on liberals (even for bumps in the road). He assumes that liberal automatically means at