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My god, you really are stuck in the past
Robert — (archived)

It must've been almost three years ago I read Dean's book, and yet that's your benchmark. I've gotten the distinct impression from your reaction every time I bring up a book that the last book you read really was Atlas Shrugged. In college.

What've I been reading in the last couple of months, let's see...Tenet's autobiography and an independent history of the CIA (entertaining contrast); historian Richard Hoftstadtler's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition; The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington by Jennet Conant; and this morning I started Setting the desert on fire : T.E. Lawrence and Britain's secret war in Arabia, 1916-1918 James Barr.

So forgive me if I'm not particularly bowled over by insults from a semiliterate lout who's a bitter partisan for an anti-intellectual political party whose official avatar is the drunken slob Joe Sixpack.

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