Book Review: “Flim-Flam” by James Randi (1987)

Wrecks and Restoration:
My Favorite Books


THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF HORROR
There are many terrible books, but not many are worse than the (so-called) Holy Bible. With it’s clear and unwavering instructions on how to beat slaves, its open advocacy of stoning adulterers to death, its call for mass retribution and revenge by burning innocents alive in fire and brimstone, and a professed destiny for all humankind that promises us mass murder on an unprecedented scale ending in a global holocaust, this isn’t a guide book on living. Rather, it’s celebration of death, paved in mass punishments. It’s a sick, sadistic tribulation of horror. It’s a delivery device of terror. The Holy Bible is a far scarier book than anything ever dreamed about by Stephen King.
Fortunately, it’s *also* a book of fiction.
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THE DECENCY OF MITT ROMNEY
Rants and rage are easy. Compromise and conciliation are far more difficult.
I would be hard pressed to name an issue where I’m in agreement with Mitt Romney, the dapper Utah Senator, ex-Mass. Gov. and two-time GOP presidential candidate.
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