Synopses & Reviews
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island.
Clinton's new collection spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and U.S. politics; Obama props and prop hates; baptism and waterboarding, as well as intelligent design, families of choice, and even bee colony collapses. With intriguing titles such as The Sistine Shusher, Lights out on Bush, and The Closet and the Confessional, the essays in the book are classic Clinton--provocative, thoughtful, and edgy.
As a humorist for over twenty-five years, Clinton believes that making light--light enough to see and light enough to move--is what sustains us. What unites the essays is a Mobius strip of humor intended not to dissipate outrage but rather to motivate action.
Synopsis
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island.
About the Author
Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.
Table of Contents
Introduction
MSM
Democracy Diet
I Want My Gay TV
We’re Back in Kansas, Toto
The Passion of the Penguins
Why You’ll Never Hear “Heeeeeeere’s Katie!”
Hikikomori
Mashups and Me
He-Who
The Body Politic
Hairspray
Dog Days of Summer
See Alice?
Crabby Putinesca
Sister Friends
Feeling Potlucky
King of My Heart
Desperate Housewiles
Tant P.U.
Kiss My Benchmark
You Logo, Girl!
This One’s for You, Mildred
Argh, O’Mateys!
Big Love Trumps Mr. Big
Ptown GPS
Bawdy Politics
An American Impressionist
Not Full Citizens
Happy Returns
Stupor Bowl
Amazing Grace
B Is for Benchmark
TGI /
Rudimentary
Our State of Affairs Is a Great State Fair
Curb Your Cynicism
Late Adopters
Fighting Weight
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit
Why Not Hillary?
“If you go down to the woods today . . .”
Hillaphobic Blowback
Hillary’s My Guy
Sitting Shiva on She
It Ain’t Over
Hubble, Hubble
Carpooling on the Straight Talk Express
Do You Have to Go?
The Itch to Hitch
Faith-Based Comedy
The Sistine Shusher
Reading Between the Holy Lines
Ding-Dong
Ordained Comic
M’Kay?
St. Alf’s Science Fair
The Closet and the Confessional
Moral Footprints
Gayvolution Theory
I Wish I Could Quit Ewe
Just Rehab Those Slurs Away!
Edible Equality
Incoming!
The Month Formerly Known as June
Friends of Bill and Dorothy
ENDA, Don’t MENDA
Power Is Sexy! Action Is Hot!
Go, Golden Staters! Go, Buckeyes!
The Perfect Heterostorm
He Sees Gay People
Citizen Arrests
Third Term
Peace of My Mind
The UN Goes to Junior High
I Don’t Heart Huckabee
Happy International Women’s Day!
DC
Buzzkill
Lights Out on Bush
Curb Your Mitt!
Hypocrites Galore
Precollision Intelligence
Bush as Belichick
PBTSD
The Unconflicted White Man
On the GLAAD Rag
Wii the People
Come On, Rogue
Project Runaway
Civic Tempura
Even Covergirls Get the Blues
The Palin Effect
The Right to Comfort
The Big Gay Slowdown
Afterword