Nuts & Mutton

Susan J. Douglas asks How Does Laura Bush Sleep at Night? in a take-no-prisoners article in the August edition of In These Times. I like her characterisation of Laura as George’s beard. Despite her recent OpEd in the Washington Post on Myanmar, she really has been a pretty useless First Mate. And it’s true what Douglas says: how can the mother of two girls stand idly by while her husband and his cronies gut women’s programs? The same question could be asked of that other beard, Lynne Cheney.