Slam Dunks and No-Brainers - Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever Popular Culture Kismet dishes up everything a

Kismet dishes up everything a reader could possibly crave: family drama

He is haunted by events of the past and he uses humor to cope

Schopenhauer

Break free from overthinking

Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers - Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever Popular Culture Kismet dishes up everything aIn this marvelously original book, three time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why were all talking the talkDuh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as no brainers) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a