So Mad magazine—the “usual gang of idiots”— has compiled a gaggle of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists to depict George Bush’s “support” of global warming.
I await the “very special” issue of Highlights , featuring an image of the president pushing a baby carriage down a flight of stairs toward a door marked “TESTING,” with a caption that reads “No Child Left Behind.”
Notes on Anosmia
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Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…