I was a huge fan of MAD Magazine when I was a kid and I really liked Mr Berg’s “Lighter Side Of...” strips so this seemed like an interesting read when I was much younger. As someone who is now of a similar vintage to the author when he wrote it, though, I feel a little differently. I get that his heart is in the right place but his sentiments haven’t aged very well. The idea of centrism when discussing political/ social issues seems a little odd when he talks about POC people having the same opportunities as he did simply because he grew up in a poor neighbourhood, and I get his sympathies towards the Israelis during the late 60s/ early 70s conflicts, and I even agree with them in part but he refuses to apply his own”fault on both sides” argument to it and he is definitely laying out his support for one side of the generation gap (hint: it’s not the people who might conceivably have bought his book) in the latter chapters. It was a good barometer check for how my attitudes have changed over the years since I last read it, but I’m not sure I’m going to need any calibration like this for a while longer. It’s still funny, but not in the way it used to be.