George W. Bush: Stupider Than Mr. Bill

“I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees.”

Well, nobody apart from all the scientists, disaster preparation experts, and Mr. Bill, that is. Oh, and Fanny Trollope, back in 1832.

While we’re on the subject, loosely speaking, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is a bald-faced liar who in any other administration would be hung out to dry. With the idiot we have running the show now, though, he’ll undoubtedly get a medal.

5 September 2005 | uncategorized |

Philip Roth’s Pre-Science Fiction Endeavors

Sunday’s NYT Arts & Leisure section puts Philip Roth on the cover in recognition of his double-barreled entry into one of the most substantial guideposts to our nation’s canon, the Library of America. The first volume combines Goodbye, Columbus and Letting Go, while the second volume runs from When She Was Good through Portnoy’s Complaint to Our Gang and The Breast—a lineup that’s led Jonathan Yardley to suggest already that the comprehensive inclusiveness of this projected eight-volume series is “nuts.”

5 September 2005 | uncategorized |