This Post Is Not A Defense Of George W. Bush...

…okay? Every morning after BBC World Service, my community radio station plays a couple minutes of Texas snark by Jim Hightower, who bills himself as America’s #1 Populist! The late Molly Ivins liked him, enough to quote his Wildean epigram “The only thing in the middle of the road is yellow stripes and dead armadillos” every chance she got. Sorry, Molls, wherever you are, but it’ll never