I suggest cherishing this novel like an expensive box of chocolate.

Mexican pigs had nothing to do with it.

Written as if the author were attempting to channel the very worst components of Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy.

How could you tell?

Education has been so co-opted by business and entertainment values that what learning takes place is entirely accidental.

Why in the hell are there guards patrolling the dumpsites, unless illegal activity is taking place?

The master of the infinite entendre.

It is true that many state constitutions freely mixed religion and government in the pre-Constitution days, but…

The flag has been marketed and exploited to the extent that
it’s the pet rock of 2002.

Sacred cows simply mean nothing to her, and she is at her gleeful best when applying her unique savagery to a beloved standard or timeless hit.