The Idiocy of my Odyssey: Excerpts and explorations of one man's adventures, family, faith, education, and experiences. "I have lived about half my life in each of the two freest societies on earth, and they could not be more different. My life in each has, however, had two constants: change and a proclivity towards making the idiotic choice wherever possible. The results are funny and tragic; sometimes odd and occasionally conventional. One example is prefaced as follows: 'This is the story of my transition from working-class boy to teacher to salesman; a profession my mother regularly compared either to Gypsy peddlers, or a piano player in a brothel.'"