I just opened this email in response to my Hitler/Bush column (I can’t tell if this guy is serious):

Dear Jonah,
I just finished reading your rather long essay defending Bush against the charge of being another Hitler.I agree he is not another Hitler,Hitler was a helluva lot smarter–but that is beside the point.
What I wanted to ask was:Do you think your socks,after a year under the fridge would taste better than Al Sharpton’s? Do you think George Bush’s socks would taste better than Hitler’s after a year under the fridge?I think they would be equally untasty.This should be proof enough of their similarity,never mind their mutual use of fear to motivate their people to go to war and the rest of those idiotic partisan political arguments. Strip them of their socks and you will see that they were true spiritual brothers.
[Name withheld]