I wasn't going to bother to review this book. On Bullshit is probably no longer than a ten-page Word document. I checked the audio version, and it's 1/18th the length of The World Is Flat. But after today's collective rant about the media coverage of terror in London, one passage really resonated:

Someone who ceases to believe in the possibility of identifying certain statements as true and others as false can have only two alternatives. The first is to desist both from efforts to tell the truth and from efforts to deceive....The second alternative is to continue making assertions that purport to describe the way things are, but that cannot be anything but bullshit.

Today, lots of reporters were making assertions that purport to describe the way things are, but that cannot be anything but bullshit.

Brevity isn't the only reason I'm not reviewing On Bullshit. I'm convinced it's a best-seller on title alone. A book on bullshit by any other name just doesn't smell as sweet to bookstore browsers (see Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide).