>This is no
>Legitimation Crisis, but is sure is funny.
Sometimes it's real tempting to take the H.L. Mencken route and give up taking American politics seriously and just treat it as a circus. Today's Wall Street Journal has a story on a chain of for-profit Christian charter schools - which uses E. Don Hirsch's cultural literacy canon, by the way. William Gaddis could hardly have done better. And then there's George W. going on about the "East Timorians," a sequel to his earlier ruminations on the "Kosovanians." And he's at least a third-generation Yalie. What a nuthouse.
Doug