QOTD

[randy_byers]

"In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with a hot coathanger. Michel Foucault was at the Societé française de philosophie, considering the question, ‘What is an author?’"

-- Eliot Weinberger, "'Damn Right,' I said" -- a review in London Review of Books of Dubya's new memoir, well worth reading in its entirety (the review, that is)

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant analysis of the book's unintentional self-revelations, marred only by the conceit that Weinberger had never read, or even heard of, a ghostwritten political memoir before.

He should watch his comparisons between the book Bush and the real-life Bush, because sometimes the later comes only from rumor or caricature, and I'd like to know his source for stating that Poppy Bush, the one-time fighter pilot, was "actually considered a coward outside of" the family. Poppy's WW2 hero status comported oddly with his later political reputation as a wimp, but I never heard anybody claim he was a coward, certainly not in his military capacity.