Title: “Persepolis”

Author: Marjane Satrapi

Rank: 1,472

Blurb: “A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life.” (Time)

Review: “We tried having the freshmen at our school read this book over the summer, thinking that they might have less resistance to a graphic novel than an onslaught of straight text. We forgot, of course, that they are freshmen and will resist all attempts to read/learn over the summer regardless.”

Customers Also Bought: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (Still in the Top 100! Go Team Zombie!)

Footnote: Time for our monthly Book Chat! Are you smarter than a high-school freshman?

Persepolis [Amazon]

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Example 1. Study this photo closely, for as Thomas Lifson of the — wait for it — American Thinker explains, it tells us all we need to know about Barack Obama:

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

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Alabama is well and truly fucked:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It is hardly unusual these days for a government building to forgo a fresh paint job or regular lawn care to cut costs. But last week, the director of the Jefferson County public nursing home was told that the county could no longer afford to bury indigent patients.

Across town at the juvenile detention center, the man in charge was trying to figure out how to feed the 28 children in his custody when the entire cafeteria staff is let go. The tax collector warned local school districts to expect a six-month delay to get their share of property taxes. In family court, administrators plan to delay child support, custody and child abuse cases, leaving some children in the hands of the state indefinitely.

And what does you suppose Alabama’s junior senator is doing to help his constituents (other than opposing the stimulus)?

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Because if you and Chris Cillizza hadn’t created a now-deleted WaPo video hilariously! suggesting that Hillary drinks “Mad Bitch” beer (we’re partial to Swampsow Stout), we wouldn’t have eventually stumbled across the Wasatch Brew Pub of Park City, Utah. And that’s our Teachable Moment.