“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over?Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsettingnovel in which the hero is the country, and the president is thisdisturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worseand worse and worse.”
“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”