So this book isn’t a revelation of sorts and certainly not a literary masterpiece. There’s no intellectual gymnastics here, it’s just plain uncensored fun to read; a cool diversion for your inner satirist. If you can’t make fun of the pope, who can you make fun of?
I’ll add my two favorite rules:
New Rule… If you think the idea of Angelina Jolie sleeping with another woman is an abomination, you’re gay. Normally I don’t go for the idea that people who really hate gays are just closeted gays themselves, but allow me to make an exception. If you can’t see the beauty in that Sapphic scenario, you’ve got more unresolved gay issues that that dude from Silence of the Lambs. This is what the Pope thinks of when he masturbates. It’s not an abomination. It’s what should be replacing baseball as our national pastime.
New Rule… George Bush isn’t Hitler. In the 2004 election, MoveOn.org compared Bush to Hitler, ignoring the first rule of being taken seriously by grown-ups, which is: Don’t call everyone you don’t like “Hitler”. Bush is not Hitler. For one thing, Hitler was a decorated, frontline combat veteran. Also, in the election that brought him to power in 1933, Hitler got more votes than the other candidates.
New Rules: Polite Musings From A Timid Observer was too short. I wanted more. That’s pretty much where it loses points with me. Otherwise it fully delivers on its intended purpose. I give it a 4 outta 5. New Rules, Rules. He should put out a new compilation at the end of every season
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