From the author's introduction:
"I read four newspapers a day and almost never reach that page of the papers that the liberal-minded call the comics page. Like so many Americans, I enjoy a good laugh. Usually the front section is good enough for me. If I need a bit more hilarity, I proceed directly to the editorials. An American editorialist full of moral indignation is funnier than a chimpanzee on a unicycle. For years now, I have been surgically removing the more risible clippings from the month's news and reproducing them in a section of The American Spectator under the rubric 'The Continuing Crisis.'"...