In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, the bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk show host and wise-cracking analyst for ABC's "Monday Night Football" makes hamburger out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kind of allusions that require high SAT scores-or at least a smart crib sheet. In ranting against bureaucrats, for instance, Miller notes, "They may bestride the rest of us like some kind of Cubicle Colossus bellowing, 'I am Ozymandius, Clerk of Clerks! Look on my Files, ye Mighty, and despair!' All ye who enter here." Long before he became a network football analyst, Miller was an expert commentator on another violent, full-contact sport: American pop culture.
Here, Miller takes on Bush-league politics, child stars with rap sheets, women with bigger muscles than he has, herbs you don't smoke, God, and, yes, football. Nothing is out of bounds. Don't feel guilty for laughing-these rants are actually good for you. (They provide your daily irony supplement.) Hilarious, sometimes angry, always insightful, "The Rant Zone" is Miller's most provocative book to date. With Dennis Miller calling the signals, the comedy always goes deep.