Publisher's Synopsis
"My best friend once told me that I was a curious combination of naiveté and expertise. When he expected naiveté from me he got expertise and when he expected expertise he got a state of confusion. I can recite the Boy Scout motto, but I don't remember the password to my computer. I can change a furnace filter with aplomb, but I can't find the dipstick in my car. I'm a middle class, middle-aged Midwesterner whose belief often straddles the middle of the road. In a time when we are supposed to be politically correct, we have opinions coming at us from every nationality, race, gender, social group and economic level. They are conservative, liberal, common sense and nonsense. What does a middle man think? That's what my columns in "State of Confusion" are all about. You'll get the point of view of someone who has been there sometimes and is out in left field at others. I'll share my expertise on everything from pennies to pornography, from certain words to swear words, from political campaigns to political correctness. I'll talk about anything I can examine, praise, criticize or condemn. My friend was right. I am in a state of confusion. That confusion isn't only mine but others' too. That's the appeal of this column. Readers will see my column and relate to it or hate it, see I've got a point or wonder what's my point." This book, the first of a series, features Grant Fredericksen's columns which appeared in local central Illinois newspapers from 2001 to 2006.
