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The Albanian Anti-Defamation League has launched its first attack on Attention Deficit Democracy.  A  woman who calls herself Kristina Albania – and who confesses that her nickname is “blerta” – angrily attacked the book yesterday in a “customer” (fat chance) review on Amazon.  From the Amazon page for Attention Deficit Democracy –   Title of […]

My piece on the absurd definitions of the “suspected terrorists,” published last month in the Los Angeles Times, was translated and published by Jornal O Estado de Sno Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers. It was posted online by a Brazilian business lobby here.   The generous review essay published by Counterpunch was translated into Portuguese […]

My Newsday piece on mass ignorance vs. American democracy was translated into Portuguese and published in the third-largest newspaper in Brazil.  The piece was reposted at this Brazilian blog. Perhaps Brazilians have more interest in ignorant Americans than do many Americans.   I hope my article does not do anything to cause the average Brazilian to […]

The Air America interview with Charles Goyette will be at 10:30 am Eastern.  (Disregard the revised posting here earlier). 

I will be talking and signing books at the Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Va., at 6:30 pm on Tuesday night (2/21). The  Fountain Bookstore is at 1312 E. Cary St.,  (804) 788-1594.  Directions and other details are at the bookstore’s website. I have been advised by counsel that, because it has been a long time since […]

Ari Melber, a former U.S. Senate legislative aide, reviewed Attention Deficit Democracy in today’s New York Post. Melber calls the book “a lively attack on politicians, voters and government. Bovard’s indictment of an ineffective but ever-expanding federal government would make any libertarian proud. That may be why the author has so many conservative fans, including […]