You can smell the whiny paranoia a mile away: menopausal white man and once-talented playwright David Mamet now goes all in with a bitter, ridiculous screed that has nothing to do with knowledge or culture, and everything to do with repeating neocon and Fox [Surely, faux? – Ed.] talking points about how those evil liberals are ruining a once-great land with – well, what exactly?

What difference does it make, when you're just making **** up, the forensic technique favored by Mamet and his likeminded friends Dick "Bitch, show me your toes" Morris and the certifiable Glenn Beck.  String together a few lazy falsifiable generalizations about what these "liberals" supposedly believe, being careful to avoid any real engagement with liberal ideas like tolerance, protection of the unfortunate, and respect for individual rights, and bingo you've earned your advance.

Once thing we'll grant Mamet – unlike some of his fellow "writers" we can't believe that he needs the money.  He must really believe this crap about what kind of a world is it when the chief of the International Monetary Fund can't rape a chambermaid with impunity and hate-filled homophobes are excluded from the universe of reasoned discourse.

As for us, we'll save our money in the hopes we can someday buy a copy of Why I Married That A**hole, by Lindsay Crouse.

You've got to hand it to Henry Kissinger, unless you're one of the thousands  of victims of his illegal bombing of Cambodia and don't have any hands: 188 [Get the interns to check this – Book Review Ed.] years old and he's still prevaricating with the energy and enthusiasm of a liar half his age.

His latest effort at rewriting history covers his prayer partner Richard Nixon's courageous effort to re-establish relations with the government of China after 22 years of smearing any Democrat bold enough to suggest such an approach as a Communist or worse.

We're sure this volume is packed full of possibly accurate trivia about what a party animal Mao Tse-Tung was.  Come to think of it, maybe that explains why Kissinger had so little difficulty is sitting down with what his political bedfellows had invariably referred to as "Red China":  it must have been nice for Henry to spend time with perpetrators of crimes against humanity many times worse than his own. 

Did you know that Republicans have sex? Or did you think they reproduced parthenogenetically, like other lower life forms? According to our authoress, they get it on with the same enthusiasm they show for launching unnecessary wars and enriching the rich.

Given that there are white people in Texas, you probably suspected as much already, but you might not have known, had you never set foot in Washington, that they can skank around with the best of them, by which we mean ex-Governors of New York and ex-Congressmen from Queens.

That's pretty much her book in its unreadable glory. We admit that Republicans have the right to engage in consensual sexual activities in the privacy of their mansions and think tanks, but we'd really rather not hear about it.

Some of us actually observed this slagging around first hand during the reign of the Great Prevaricator himself and are still haunted by what we saw. Maybe we should pay the $10 to confront our demons and achieve what Oprah would call closure.

Nah.