Well, I wouldn’t drive a VW bus, or wear tie-dye

either. In fact, I pootle around Dallas in an 11-year-old blue Mercedes

sedan with a broken air-conditioner (and let me tell you, if you ever have

to drive from Dallas to south Louisiana in August without an air

conditioner…), and wear dull, sensible clothes. Except in my

air-conditioner-free car on long August roadtrips, which I drive either

naked or wearing a muu-muu sewn out of dryer softener sheets. The VW van

thing on the cover of my book is a joke. And honestly, is it really the case

that you don’t consider Chambers a conservative? The distinction you draw

seems to me to be pedantic. Anyway, this sensibility I’ve written about is

NOT about the clothes you wear or the car you drive … but we’ve talked

about this before. Besides, Jonah, how can you even bring up dialectics when

the Simpson-Lachey marriage has reportedly gone kaput?