Slam Dunks and No-Brainers - Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever Popular Culture Trumbo sets this story down

Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence

A racing card game where you join fellow drivers in a battle to the finish line

Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world

Break free from overthinking

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers - Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever Popular Culture Trumbo sets this story downIn this marvelously original book, three time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why were all talking the talkDuh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as no brainers) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a