With All Disrespect: More Uncivil Liberties

Description for WITH ALL DISRESPECT: MORE UNCIVIL LIBERTIES by Calvin Trillin:

No, Calvin Trillin has not grown more civil. As readers of this hilarious new collection from THE NATION will discover, Trillin's column, "uncivil Liberties," is still written "with all disrespect," and it is still, in the word of USA TODAY, "simply the funniest regular column in journalism."

Trillin grapples with the big issues, such as the danger that constant political appeals to the Almighty could result in Deity Overload, or speculation about whether Ronald Reagan is really under the impression that Polaris is a denture cleanser. he talks about life at home with a wife who may be a scale-tamperer and life at THE NATION with Harold the Committed, "who want my daughter to go to the Halloween parade as the dangers posed to our society by the military-industrial complex."

In a confessional mood, Trillin reveals that he was the homicidal bicyclist who nearly ran down fellow columnist Russell Baker ("What I did hurt me more than it hurt him---although if I had managed to hit him I suppose it would have hurt him more"). He reveals that he was once the co-editor of a periodical called BEAUTIFUL SPOT: A MAGAZINE OF PARKING. Finally, he reveals why he writes for THE NATION: "It's the closes magazine to my house".