The cheerful idiot

we allow the Current Occupant to leave the Mansion d'Blanc with a big grin in a couple of weeks, his self-esteem apparently fully intact, imagining that his legacy will emerge golden and shining in a hundred years after all of us are deceased. He is one of the cheerfullest idiots you ever saw, a man who could burn down his own house and be happy that the patio was still standing. Had Congress impeached him, his defense would have been that he was not ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.4
by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 7, 2009

Keillor gets in some good lines before he wanders out behind the bushes and writes a sonnet. If he could have stayed on topic, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece review.

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