Thinking Like an Apparatchik

Atlantic Monthly ^ | July, 2003 | Christopher Hitchens

[Howlin]

He nailed Sidney to the wall.

[McGavin999]

I have this theory, Monica is really Sidney in drag.

[Howlin]

After reading excerpts from the book like this:

Clinton brought in with him a stream of cool, brisk air from outside. At six feet, two inches, with a jutting jaw, gray-green eyes, a ruddy complexion, and loose long limbs, Clinton was the most physically imposing person in the room, as he almost always was.

you could very well be right! Sidney must have gotten the very first pair of officially issued Clinton kneepads.

[Victoria Delsoul]

It makes me wonder how Stephen King holds his sanity!

LOL, I think you and I may differ on the meaning of sanity in this case.

[Frank_2001]

I agree OMG...you could gag reading this slop. We narrowly missed becoming The Soviet Socialist Republic of Amerikanistan...

[Howlin]

It's unreal, isn't it?

[MHGinTN]

Ping-a-ling ... thought you might enjoy reading what Hitch has to say, re Blumenidiotathal

[cricket]

"Blumenthal was on FNC last week and I just sat there shaking my head .. "

. . .while he may have been elsewhere on FNC; did sit through his almost too-painful-to-watch book/self-promo with Greta Van Susteren; who seemed totally oblivious to Sid's compromised reality.

[cricket]

"Thinking Like an Apparatchik"

. . . a bump for 'truth in labeling' and no one says it better than Hitchens.

[TomB]

Bump for a great weekend read.

[MHGinTN]

^

[E Rocc]

You have to duck and weave sometimes through Hitch's politics in his writings but he's the best writer today in America.

Actually he's a close second to fellow Atlantic Monthly columnist and sometimes drinking buddy P. J. O'Rourke. Still, this was the best Sinkmeister slam ever.

-Eric