Ha! "Chicken shittery" may be my new favorite term from a book. I'm so glad she's the narrator of her book.
#Audible
KathyWheeler I really liked this book. 5y
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | 
Ha! "Chicken shittery" may be my new favorite term from a book. I'm so glad she's the narrator of her book.
#Audible
Maddow spoke here about the Reagan presidency, but also be said about many presidents since.
pickListened to this audio book over several days of cleaning. Meticulously researched, thoroughly explained. Rachel traces the drift away from recognizing the costs of war on a human level as well as a monetary one. Also covered in this book are alarming facts about military privatization and the state of our nuclear weaponry and the handling of it. I learned a great deal and need Rachel to write more books!
Welp, Maddow just spit out a racial slur ("j*ps"). How hard would it have been to just say "the Japanese army?" We're fucking done here. I'm never watching her fuckass show again either.
I'm not sure if I'm going to finish this audiobook. I love the sound of Rachel Maddow's voice and always have, and it has a lot of concrete, helpful facts I need in order to understand the Bush era, but her analysis, history, and vision of the US steadfastly ignore or justify its many crimes against nonwhite people, especially through her veneration of the founders. Maybe the facts will be helpful enough to make it worth my time, but I don't know.
pickSo good. finished this up while #audiocooking tonight - my husband is serving lunch for 125 people on Saturday and I‘m in charge of dessert.
Doing some #audiocooking while I prep this week‘s CSA haul. Loving these watermelon radishes!!!
Long day at work for me today, but at least I have Rachel Maddow to keep me company...
pick.Maddow takes us on a journey from the war in Vietnam to Afghanistan, explaining how the rise of executive presidential power and our out - sourcing of weapons to private corporations may not be a wise thing...
Rachel Maddow is courageous, witty, provocative, intelligent and hard to ignore.You love her or you hate her....her common sense attitude makes sense to me...
Highly recommended
So excited to have discovered that Rachel Maddow has written a book! How did I not know already?? 🙄*Any*who, it's now a #tbr title!
pickA strong, comprehensive, and surprisingly entertaining argument from Maddow about the slide of the American military from an essential part of civilian life to a secretive organization in a neverending war without oversight. Her history, which goes from LBJ to Obama, points out where both parties and all branches of government ceded essential responsibility, and in doing so did severe damage to our military men and women.
Changing it up and showing my husband's bookshelf since I always show mine. He was tired of always getting pushed off of my shelves (the #spacejam was real in our last apartment), so when we moved I told him I wouldn't add a single thing to this shelf. It's full of about 90% nonfiction, 5% John Updike, and 5% random miscellaneous stuff (records, a wild thing, presidential M&M's, a Star Trek phaser). This is why I love him. 💕
So, so proud of Rachel or local hero!! This is on sale from Read It Forward
Dang you Amazon!!! Shakes book-loving fist at app, another book I've wanted to read is on sale today.
I think I need an addicts book buying anonymous!
What does it mean when you know you have a problem, but aren't sure you want help...
Today's #signedSundays post is one of my heroes. My wife (also Rachel) and I ran an event with Rachel and she was a complete delight. A crowning achievement of my life was making a joke that cracked her up!
pickThis books had just about everything I love. Maddow's insight and wit (swoon), new (to me) historical facts (YASS), and modern American war analysis (*faints*). If you're familiar with Maddow's style of getting to a point through pointing out its historical significance or modern parallel, you'll find this book easy&entertaining to read. It shows how we got from the Framers' intent that only Congress could declare war to our constant "conflicts."
"Chickenshittery" is my new favorite word.
Unfiltered Maddow is even better than adorable TV Maddow. Like my massive, long-standing, verging-on-obsessively-weird girl crush needed more fuel. 😍
This book is making my head want to explode! "Saint" Reagan seems to be the biggest chicken hawk (emphasis on the chicken) I've ever heard of. I can't believe the GOP has practically canonized this schmuck. ?
I usually post the front cover of my current read, but I find the back cover of this particular book to be much more … aesthetically pleasing. 😍 (Because Rachel Maddow is a total babe ❤️)
The Thinking About War Pack. Cannot recommend the top 3 in this stack highly enough--all thought-provoking and well-written. Looking forward to the rest. Are you one of those readers who starts on a subject and must keep drilling down and spreading out? I know I am.
