Global Village Idiot

In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins ( Publishers Weekly ).   Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America’s right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself. “Just when we thought the lawlessness in Iraq was over,” O’Farrell observes, “even more bla