One-liners about multiple topics. Possibly tries to be funny, and mostly fails, even when recycling old jokes. Also, this being a Hugo nominated work, starting with tired material about US (party) politics was quite a turn off, and not being SF-related doesn't help. I'm assuming the nomination was a failed attempt of a joke as well.

This was part of a Hugo voter packet, and the particular version also contains a foreword where the writer complains how some people don't get its/his satire. Classy.