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Looks like Momo has entered the Russell Baker - Art Buchwald Zone. Years ago you'd open up your paper and find such unfunny little skits and wonder if anyone actually read or enjoyed them.

Buchwald always had some crazy acquaintance with some crazy idea that was supposed to be a devlishly witty commentary about contemporary politics. I don't know much about Baker, except 1) he hosts Masterpiece Theater now and tells us every week how horrible those Victorians really were (according to a script that some overworked intern churns out the night before) and 2) he thought he had "a country in his cellar." Don't ask me what it means. I couldn't figure that one out.

The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved.

Isn't this the old Doonesbury "I can't draw faces, so I'll just draw a feather floating in space" gambit?

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In the Clinton years, any writer who could spell Clinton and Jones was a hero to the right. Let any writer today take after W they are insured instant flames from the right (or as some of us are inclined to think, the wrong).