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Imagine looking at everyday life on Earth through the eyes of an alien from another planet. That's right! Over her years in advertising, as an English coach abroad (in China and Russia and Turkey), as a Mayor of Menlo Park, CA - as well as a wife and mother - Mickie Winkler has wondered whether there is intelligent life on earth. In her new book, Politics, Police and Other Earthling Antics, Winkler presents a collection of 54 illustrated, short and irreverent anecdotes reflecting on the unique and baffling habits of ordinary people, police and politicians. After reading the book, Winkler hopes you look at us all with a new set of eyes!
About the author
Mickie Winkler is an alien from Planet Zalaria who delights in chronicling our antics here on Planet Earth. She has observed earthlings watering their decorative plants. She marvels at the 40,000 state laws Americans pass each year. She wonders why cops buy expensive body cameras when all the cameras seem to fail. You can share her fascination with earthlings when you read her observations, all presented in very short pieces--short enough to share with guests. "Zalarians were once much like earthlings," Winkler explains, "but alas, we now lack the ever-entertaining drive for power and sex, so evident among earthlings and chimpanzees." (Winkler, by the way, has no doubt that when female earthlings achieve parity with males, they too will demonstrate a drive for power and has so written in this very book.) As an illegal alien, Winkler has zero inalienable rights. Before beaming back to Zalaria, she still needs to answer the question: is there intelligent life on Earth?
Summary
Hey earthlings Do you recognize this pornographic plaque? It was sent into space by a U.S. government agency, NASA, in 1972. Really. Your space ship carrying this plaque crash-landed on my planet and, can you believe, almost killed us allThe plaque survived the crash, but what exactly do the squiggles depict? And what kind of creature would recklessly send pornography into space? Could it be intelligent? Zalarians sent me to Earth to find out.The anecdotes I collected for this book were beamed back to Zalaria, enabling Zalarians to judge for themselves is there intelligent life on Earth?
