Publisher's Synopsis
Tom Hanks once said that 'the world is just plain goofy.' There's no doubt about it. We've all often commented how insane, nuts, weird, and plain whacko way too many aspects of our lives are. It's happening more each day, with the latest and greatest in the world of whacko somehow able to top that which we previously thought was too hard to believe. There is also a large group of folks that conduct themselves in such idiotic ways or create such stupendous blunders that they deserve a "whack upside the head." Some of it qualifies as being sound evidence that the end of the world is near, whether the current prognosticators of that event or close to being right or not. Even if the end is not at hand, things have certainly become much stranger in the last few decades. Much of it is so hard to look at or to contemplate that we might cry if we could not laugh about it. In this volume, you will find the strange, odd, weird, ridiculous, just plain dumb and occasionally horrendously stupid acts, products, language, events, and other assorted nonsense that must be at least laughed at or, in some cases, soundly lambasted, including many of those bizarre folks who deserve a good whacking. While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact start date for when things really started to get wacko, it can easily be traced to December 18, 1989, the date of the first entry in the Whackopedia took place. "Phenomenal insight! A must read!!!"- a NEW YORKER friend "Ken's finger is on the pulse on what's wrong out there in the world." -a VARIETY of folks said "Can't wait to see what's on his blog!" - those with TIME to look
