THE BUSH DYSLEXICON: OBSERVATIONS ON A NATIONAL DISORDER Mark Crispin Miller

It's scary how sharp media critic Mark Crispin Miller is. But what's even scarier is that some bookstores in the United States put The Bush Dyslexicon, his analytical treatise on the verbal slips of our unelected president -- as well as his equally oblivious administration -- in the humor section. Miller's book is many things, but it is not funny. Rather, it's a sobering look at how the culture of television has shortened the American attention-span to the point that no one blinks an eye when the highest-ranking government official in the United States asks, "Is our children learning?" Or lets slip a naked truth about his administration's rollback of civil liberties: "We are resolved to rout out terror wherever it exists to save the world from freedom!" With over a hundred pages of new material on King George II's post-9/11 manuevers, the paperback release of the Dylsexicon was 2002's most potent exercise in political commentary. And we're not talking Fox News or CNN's lightweight version of it either. Don't just read it, assign it.