Spin Dry

For some reason, Kurt Vonnegut's piece Cold Turkey has hit the top of the blog quote charts today. Perhaps the reason is that he speaks the truth.

But -- he's been doing it for a while. Check out this interview with him from January 2003, in which he describes W to a tee in not flattering terms...

What has allowed so many PPs [psychopathic personalities] to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!

Hm. Does that description sound familiar?