This book is by a South African surgeon, Dr. Gideon Naude, now practicing in the USA. The book's charm lies in its straight-forward, humble, often controversial and thought provoking insights into a range of subjects as diverse as the thorny issue of immigration in the USA, global warming, hunting, free love and happiness, to war, gun control, lawyers and liars, and seemingly everything in between. Observations takes the form of conversations with people- mainly his children Gideon Jnr. and Nicole, and two fictitious characters, liberal Sarah and right wing Jack, loosely patterned on some of...