An e-mail:

The Washington Post’s absurd story today that criticizes Vice-President Cheney’s attire at commemoration ceremonies at Auschwitz as childish, while simultaneously describing uber-weasels Chirac and Schroeder as “adults,” puts me in mind of a famous quote by Albert Einstein: “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”