Wednesday, January 24, 2007

 

Watching the SOU on mute last night, and railing about the close-captioned words of the President, I came up with the idea that Bush should just pack it in for the next 22 or so months, and devote the rest of his lame-duck presidency to forming a book club to rival Oprah's. Then followers of the Oprah Book Club and the Bush Book Club will form gangs of vicious book club supporters, prone to beaning members of the opposite faction over the noggins with copies of their leader's book for the month. Bush can only win if he assigns nothing but really hefty hard-bound biographies, or searching careful detailed accounts of entire wars. Otherwise the Faulkner-toting Oprahrians will knock his followers down where they stand. The can also all devise intriguing book club cheers and jeers for their opponents. If nothing else, it will amuse the rest of the nation and form a pleasingly whimsical historical footnote in an otherwise morose and stolid time.

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