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I’ll have my complimentary cheap shot, please…

There’s something of a brouhaha over the proposed George W Bush presidential library, museum and institute. This was my favourite bit:

Alarm has also been expressed over the independent institute that will fund research promoting Bush’s ideas and vision.

How much money will it take to research Bush’s ideas and vision? Once you’ve ascertained that shooting, bombing and torturing people doesn’t make them free, I mean. You could hold a whip-round in a phone box and raise enough money.

Never mind a library, a small book case would suffice. The George W Bush presidential tea chest, perhaps. It’ll be an important monument to wrong. Put a big sign on the door warning anyone visiting that they are risking their life chances and intellectual well-being, and then let them get on with it.

Let him have his ‘library’. It’ll let us milk this over-producing cow for a little while longer.