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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Sometimes the joke is all in the title, but this one is worth reading all the way through.

“Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil’s Minor Works”

Brilliant. I can’t stop laughing. (And oh, do we need a laugh when it comes to Bush.)

Yet, it does make you all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the days when the president of the US invited Carlos Fuentes and Garcia Marquez for dinner. (Nostalgic for the literary dinners, not the politics.)

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