TIM GATTO IS SO RARE AS TO BE CONSIDERED A NATIONAL treasure: A plain, regular adult American who not only can actually still think but, beyond that, can do it for himself. And when he does think, he comes up with truth as opposed to some alternative packets of pseudo-thoughts or party-line notions straight from the boiler-plate factory. And on top of all that, Tim Gatto is also very funny, no matter how unjust, outrageous, or criminal the particular truth may be that he happens to be taking his customarily close look at.
 
What are those subjects? Well, mainly they're the lies, falsehoods, misrepresentations, frauds, injustices, treasons, crimes against humanity and breaches of international law that American government over the past several years has managed to weave, as if by some kind of awful black art, into replacements for what were at one time the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
 
Funny? you may ask. A man can be funny while writing seriously about things like that? Tim Gatto can. In fact, it's almost as if he can't not be funny, the way he can't not hang on to his own basic, decent, plain humanity. And, a bit like with Shakespeare's clowns, the humor adds to the seriousness and earnestness of the writing instead of detracting from it.
 
In this selection of blogs from 2005 to 2007, the subjects are hugely important--from the corporatizing of Congress to failed or stolen elections to the illegal invasion of Iraq and the lies that made it happen--and yet the plain, honest, open voice Gatto uses in writing about them is, in his publisher's words, a "zingingly on-the-mark American voice in the tradition of Ring Lardner, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Will Rogers."
 
Gatto knows what he's talking about also from the inside. He joined the army in 1968, at age eighteen, grew to political maturity--as a liberal--during the Vietnam years, and then, left-leaning all the way, put in almost 21 years in the service. After the Iraq invasion, he again became politically active and has been writing steadily ever since.
 
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