Republicans are fond of criticizing us liberals for being a bunch of hedonistic, free-loving, natural-law-defying perverts. But you know that all that sexual repression is bound to create some dark alleys in the Republican male psyche. Exhibit 1: The New Yorker’s examination of Scooter Libby’s one attempt at literary greatness, The Apprentice. It’s supposed to be some sort of erotically-charged thriller. Here’s an excerpt:
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
Um, kinky. But kinky in a holy-crap-what-kind-of-sites-on-the-Internet-do-you-visit sort of way. I wonder if Scooter is lying awake at night, hoping that he doesn’t get stuck with a cellmate who read the book and wants to act out his favorite passages.
Just another thing to add to my Amazon wishlist.