He's about to be interviewed on Fox News.

[a few minutes later]

He looks almost like a normal person. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I always imagine him as looking like one of his own characters (his art imitates his life, as it were).

His excuse is that he wasn't going after the bereaved, per se--just the ones who have put themselves in the news and gone on Larry King.

According to him, we're just too dumb to understand the nuance of his art.

I missed the FOXNews thing, damnit.

So wait -- Am I to understand Rall "problematized" his own "art"? Puh-leeze.

I've answered this same ridiculous charge from his frothing minions over on our site, but I'll repeat it here: We got it. It's just that it was meanspirited, soulless, and -- in word -- flaccid.

It's times like this that I wish I could channel Pope of Twain...

(By the way, Rand, I just read for the first time your "field hospital report" on Afghan and its journalists -- great stuff, and rightly praised! I must have been on vaction or something to have missed that one.) But then, you've always been one of my favorites.

JG