My Favourite Author Speaks

On the US President in his latest novel:

"And in terms of the president, there are similarities, but I wanted mine to be much nicer. The current guy [yup, Bush] is worthless, probably the worst president in American history. There's a sort of stupid, small-minded meanness - a pathological assholery - to him. I think he likes doing bad things. And I think a fair amount of his base approves of that resentment - against the idea of progress, against the future, against the rest of the world."

That's my new favourite adjective. Pathological assholery. I love it.