Following up their successfully funny and informative approach to philosophy in "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar," Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein follow it up with "Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington," which claims to show the philosophical and logical fallacies of 'political doublespeak.'

The problem is that Cathcart and Klein constantly fall into the same fallacies that they claim to be pointing out in others. Rather than offering a humorous introduction to logic, they simply berate Republicans for their irrational rhetoric, and by implication, their irrational and indefensible political positions.

There is much doublespeak in politics -- talking points from both sides of the political spectrum are rife with logical fallacies. One could write a very funny book that pointed these things out, but this is not that book. Given the insight and playfulness that Cathcart and Klein demonstrated with "Plato and a Platypus…" I expected much better. As much as I enjoyed that book, I hated this one. Any time an author or authors allow their political views to cloud their reason, the result is not pretty. In this book, the result is ugly indeed. ( )

Cathcart and Klein wrote this book to follow up on their first collaboration, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. The treatment here is similar, except that the authors loosely address political speech instead of philosophy. They do this by the rules of Aristotelian logic, sort of. There aren't as many jokes as in the first book, and their political bias (anti-Bush) is outdated. I enjoyed this book, but less than their first. ( )

This "sequel" was not nearly as good, funny, or entertaining as "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar," the authors' original venture into humor/philosophy.

Bad political jokes are used as examples to explain logical fallacies. Mildly entertaining, but only if you are current on American Politics in George W.'s administration. ( )

I thought the author spent far too much time espousing his personal political views. Plato and a Platypus was a much better book, unlike Aristotle and an Ardvark, I couldn't put it down. This one I could hardly finish and I'm not even a conservative. ( )