The Family Circus

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Summary: Whoa
Review: A remarkable achievement given Keane's notorious consumption of psychedelics during this period, the running joke on cow ejaculations not withstanding.

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Summary: A book for the ages
Review: Despite the blotchy blunderbuss visage of Ted "Ted" Kennedey's thoughtful support, the senate has chosen to ignore Senate Bill 2006 which would extend unemployment benefits to crack-addicted negroes such as myself. Bil Keane chooses to look beyond race and politics and sees instead a nation of folks just like him. Looking for the rock as the rock looks for him. Bil's ribald tales of back alley assignations and depositing his seed in the orifices of pre-teen Mexican children are not to be missed. TWO THUMBS UP ***** FIVE STARS!!!

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Summary: Facinating, If Controversial, Reading
Review: This treatise is a must-read for anyone truly interested in the origins of man. While I understand the need for covert distribution to an otherwise jaded scientific review audience, it still came as a surprise to me that Professor Hawking would embark on such a monumental work under a pseudonym.

Against the backdrop of the Big Bang-initiated universe we find ourselves dwarfed by 'Keane's' laser-focus arguments concerning bacterial spontaneous generation and their link to a modern cartoon character boy. The intervening billion years is naturally where the bulk of the story takes place -- and where the controversy of course ensues.

I was particularly drawn to the extensive sections elucidating the age-old theory of 'spontaneous evolution.' Our subject here, Billy, is made the focal point of a lengthy examination of a fairly ordinary bacterial vegetation, existing on the underside of a rock. By pure chance that rock is shaken loose of its footings and careens wildly down a hill (perhaps a metaphor, perhaps reality -- we don't reallly know, do we?) toward the now-familiar volcanic fissure. Billy spontaneously 'evolves' legs, arms, a brain and hair to leap nimbly out of danger's catastrophic grasp.

Taken as a whole, this semi-scientific tome works on a variety of levels; it is both incredibly educational and incredibly visionary in its embrace of seemingly insane theories. Only the most conservative, backward, low-brow readers will find fault with the obvious explanations of our 'true history.'