I Told You So

I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island.

Kate Clinton

Introduction    MSM  Democracy Diet    I Want My Gay TV    We’re Back in Kansas, Toto    The Passion of the Penguins    Why You’ll Never Hear “Heeeeeeere’s Katie!”    Hikikomori    Mashups and Me    He-Who    The Body Politic    Hairspray    Dog Days of Summer    See Alice?    Crabby Putinesca    Sister Friends  Feeling Potlucky    King of My Heart    Desperate Housewiles    Tant P.U.    Kiss My Benchmark    You Logo, Girl!    This One’s for You, Mildred    Argh, O’Mateys!    Big Love Trumps Mr. Big    Ptown GPS    Bawdy Politics  An American Impressionist    Not Full Citizens    Happy Returns    Stupor Bowl    Amazing Grace    B Is for Benchmark    TGI /    Rudimentary    Our State of Affairs Is a Great State Fair    Curb Your Cynicism    Late Adopters    Fighting Weight    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit  Why Not Hillary?    “If you go down to the woods today . . .”    Hillaphobic Blowback    Hillary’s My Guy    Sitting Shiva on She    It Ain’t Over    Hubble, Hubble    Carpooling on the Straight Talk Express    Do You Have to Go?    The Itch to Hitch    Faith-Based Comedy  The Sistine Shusher    Reading Between the Holy Lines    Ding-Dong    Ordained Comic    M’Kay?    St. Alf’s Science Fair    The Closet and the Confessional    Moral Footprints  Gayvolution Theory    I Wish I Could Quit Ewe    Just Rehab Those Slurs Away!    Edible Equality    Incoming!    The Month Formerly Known as June    Friends of Bill and Dorothy    ENDA, Don’t MENDA    Power Is Sexy! Action Is Hot!    Go, Golden Staters! Go, Buckeyes!    The Perfect Heterostorm    He Sees Gay People    Citizen Arrests  Third Term    Peace of My Mind    The UN Goes to Junior High    I Don’t Heart Huckabee    Happy International Women’s Day!    DC    Buzzkill    Lights Out on Bush    Curb Your Mitt!    Hypocrites Galore    Precollision Intelligence    Bush as Belichick    PBTSD    The Unconflicted White Man    On the GLAAD Rag    Wii the People    Come On, Rogue  Project Runaway    Civic Tempura    Even Covergirls Get the Blues    The Palin Effect    The Right to Comfort    The Big Gay Slowdown    Afterword