John Moe
Bio: John Moe is well known to humor fans as one of the writers of the award-winning highbrow humor website McSweeneys.net. He is also a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and a regular contributor to the nationwide public radio program Weekend America. He lives in Seattle, where he hosts several public radio programs dealing in politics, business, technology, liter-ature, and culture. Some of his short humor pieces have appeared in the anthologies Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, Mountain Man Dance Moves, and More Mirth of a Nation. This is his first book.
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We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change someone's mind and get them to cross over to the other side of the ideological fence? Is it possible to do that to yourself? For John Moe, it simply wasn't enough to just read the Wall Street Journal editorial page a little more often or buy a framed ... 
