Daily Blague

Paul Krugman's column in today's Times calls George W Bush "The Crony Fairy." The Crony Fairy does strips federal agencies of qualified personnel and replace them with idiots who belong in country clubs. It's a good piece,  and Times Select readers will find it without help from me.

I continued reading the newspaper, but, for some reason, the moniker lingered and intensified. "The Crony Fairy" - hmm. How about, just, "The Fairy"? You don't hear that much anymore, at least, not here in New York. "Fairy" used to be a standard insult meaning "homosexual." What it brought to the table was the idea that a man who was a fairy wasn't really a man but an incorporeal being lacking you-know-what. The accent wasn't on sexual preferences, but rather on the lack of sexuality. Perhaps what "fairy" really expressed was wishful thinking on the part of straight men.

Transpose all this to "leadership." Replace testicles with integrity. It becomes obvious in an instant: George W Bush is a fairy. The beauty part is that for once we have a nickname that would really piss him off!