This collection of monologues and op/ed pieces originally written for broadcast on CBC's The National and the Globe and Mail among others gives us Murphy full-stop, weighing in on everything from Canadian icons (Glenn Gould, Wayne Gretzky) and celebrities and their culture (Spice Girls, rappers) to politics, immigration, cell phones, the state of the union, and anything else that's made headlines during his tenure as the country's foremost barometer of current events.