Publisher's Synopsis
This book is designed to inform, surprise, stimulate, excite, delight, challenge, influence and entertain. It's a florilegium of scraps, fragments, extracts, briefs, quotes, humor, truths, snippets, and bits & bots, and has readers in 35 states and 13 countries. Topics include history, religion, ethics, language, health, politics, business, medicine, science and social issues. It is the fifth collection of a weekly mini-E-zine 'of interesting things' that is in its twelfth year. Ongoing features included in this volume: 96 Challenges, 480 Quiz Questions, 96 BIG Questions, and dozens of web-sites of interest. Over 610 issues are available free at WalterMathews.me with over 8,600 visitors. One wag has said "Fox News tells you what to think; Potpourri tells you what to think about." Another said: "Potpourri plants seeds and encourages a conversation." In addition to this 50-shades-of-gray edition, all volumes [except #!] are available in a full-color edition. The editor has been described as a polymath who is over-schooled and under-educated, with a pseudo-image of an international man of leisure--but you be the judge.
