See George Read?

Bob Cesca at The Huffington Post posted today on the White House claim that Dubya has read 60 books this year.

Sure.

That is absolutely impossible for me to believe unless someone translated the literary works into Bazooka Bubble Gum cartoons.

People who are at least somewhat well read learn how to present themselves to people, how to communicate and formulate an opinion, and show some measure of empathy and understanding.

They also learn how to think.

I provided these recommendations to Bush last year, but somehow I’m quite sure that he chose not to act on them.

Also, in this week’s New Yorker, writer Adam Gopnik reports that Bush has read “The Stranger” by Albert Camus about “the mysterious origins and horrific consequences of irrational acts of violence committed in the Arab world.” As Gopnik notes:

Camus’s purpose is to dramatize the psychology of pathological violence as a self-defining act, and his point, though open to debate with Tony Snow, is that violence may arise not as a result of premeditation and ideological fixation but as a sporadic and unplanned impulse, a kind of perpetual human temptation.

Hmm...maybe Dubya actually hunkered down and crammed this one after all.