John Ralston Saul

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (2002)

This is a damned interesting and amusing book.It's a dictionary in the same vein as Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. It ruminates on the meaning of words and phrases rather than sets the meaning in stone. The author makes it very clear that this is his opinion and not The Truth.Here's an example:...