Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas is on schedule to hit bookstores on September 21. My final tweaks were turned in on Monday. Crown Forum, a division of Random House, is the publisher. Already, a healthy buzz about the book is growing. I'm excited. A number of positive developments regarding Intellectual Morons have occured. Let me report on two. First, William F. Buckley, M. Stanton Evans, Burt Folsom, and G. Gordon Liddy have endorsed the book. I admire each of these thinkers and am proud--and a bit overwhelmed--that they've lent their support to my work. Second, American Compass, a division of the Book of the Month Club that specializes in conservative titles, will feature Intellectual Morons as an alternate selection in one of its Fall mailings.

It's a great book! It eviscerates the Bushies, just excoriates their asses. (Because, you know, they invented most things intellectually moronic, and they LOVE stupid ideologies.) In fact, what's not well-known is that the book was written for Laura Bush; the author, as it turns out, wanted her to know that "there are liars here, ma'am, and you may just be married to one of 'em. Sorry to say, ma'am. Now pass the gravy, please." But it really is a fabulous book, and I highly recommend it.

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