And speaking of literary types

And I was, in the previous post. Bob Tyrrell is writing today about George W. Bush's current reading:

He is reading I Am Charlotte Simmons, what the Herald Tribune calls a "racy, new beer- and sex-soaked novel," by Tom Wolfe. Elisabeth Bumiller, the journalist who wrote the piece, speculates that the President is reading it to gain a better understanding of his daughters, both recent college graduates with a sense of joie de vivre. Or possibly he is reading it to "journey back to his keg nights" in college, she adds. Then again Bumiller speculates he might read it "for the writing." Actually he may be reading it for pleasure. It is an amusing book, also instructive. The college life this novel depicts is very much like the college life I glimpse when I am on an American campus, though I believe Wolfe has gone rather easy on the profs. Many are even more juvenile than the students.

My theory about why Bush is reading this particular novel: sheer intellectual curiosity. Here he has already won the last election of his life and he's still trying to gain insight into the minds of his opponents.