{"id":13562,"date":"2019-01-04T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2019-07-20T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:50:25","slug":"final-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/final-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I don&#8217;t know much about science, but I know this: They didn&#8217;t land a spaceship on a comet using anecdotal evidence, and they didn&#8217;t calibrate the rate of descent using focus groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Report<\/strong> by Rick Mercer, published in 2018<\/p>\n<p>This is mostly a collection of Rick Mercer&#8217;s rants from his TV show, <strong>Rick Mercer Report<\/strong>. He comments on things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Syrian refugees<\/li>\n<li>American politics, including Donald Trump<\/li>\n<li>modern technology<\/li>\n<li>anonymous internet comments<\/li>\n<li>civility in politics<\/li>\n<li>Canadian politics, including Justin Trudeau and (in older rants) Stephen Harper<\/li>\n<li>carding aka street checks<\/li>\n<li>judges who don&#8217;t understand consent<\/li>\n<li>minimum wage<\/li>\n<li>payday loans<\/li>\n<li>bad drivers<\/li>\n<li>enthusiasm of school kids for the Spread the Net campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He also adds some new material, regarding the time he worked on a movie script with Norman Jewison, and his adventures with Jann Arden and Pierre Berton.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer is smart and funny. He knows what&#8217;s going on, so he&#8217;s worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a short book, but many of the topics are worth thinking about &#8212; and doing something about.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book I&#8217;ve read by Mercer.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever he does next, it&#8217;ll be worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I don&#8217;t know much about science, but I know this: They didn&#8217;t land a spaceship on a comet using anecdotal evidence, and they didn&#8217;t calibrate the rate of descent using focus groups.&#8221; Final Report by Rick Mercer, published in 2018 This is mostly a collection of Rick Mercer&#8217;s rants from his TV show, Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,23,5],"class_list":["post-13562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-nonfiction","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}