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...justify the war in Iraq doesn't look convincing. Both the British and American governments are telling lies to improve their credibility. That's common practice with most politicians. But how can they be so naive or so full of contempt to think that the ordinary citizen is stupid enough to believe their fabrications? Pierre Marechal Calgary, Canada...
...countrymen have for their neighbors across the Channel, "it's a kind of litmus test of my audience." His audience - somewhere between big cult and the bottom of the pop charts - will be relieved to discover that the essence of Hefner is still there: the realization that the stupid experiences we all have can be the building blocks of art. Hayman's is the music of false starts and dead ends; like Woody Allen and Philip Roth, he turns unvarnished neurosis into art. The French sounds much as Hefner did on their last album, Dead Media: sparse organ arrangements that...
...until last week, almost every employee got stock options, in varying amounts, every year. Whether they made you rich depended on how early you got there, how long you stayed and how smart or lucky you were about when you cashed them in. (I was moderately late, and moderately stupid.) One of the charms of the stock-option culture is that it scrambles the usual linear relationship between status and wealth. Secretaries, if they got there in the 1980s, own big boats and second homes. Senior managers who came later have smaller bank accounts than some of their subordinates...
...problems that a liberal would face in trying to compete with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. My theory about the hosts of conservative talk shows is summed up beautifully by a quote from Bertrand Russell: "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." SCOTT TYSON New York City...
...estrangement, plus the sex, that made his second novel, The Elementary Particles, a huge best seller in Europe and made Houellebecq (pronounced Well-beck) a heavily contested literary star. Last year he was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred after he called Islam "the most stupid religion." (Does it help to know that his mother left him in childhood for an Arab and converted to Islam?) So is he a new paradigm of loutish lucidity, a potty-mouthed Camus? Or just a racist drunk? Platform (Knopf; 259 pages), his third novel, is a heartfelt defense of sexual...