Boviosity!

Dennis Miller lets fly in the Times. If I'm a simplistic neanderthal in my views on the war against terrorism, at least I'm in good company:

The Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Miller said, changed him. "Everybody should be in the protection business now," he said. "I can't imagine anybody not saying that. Well, I guess on the farthest end of the left they'd say, `That's our fault.' And on the middle end they'd say, `Well, there's another way to deal with it other than flat-out protecting ourselves.' I just don't believe that. People say we're the ones who make them hate us because of what we do. That's garbage to me. I think they're nuts. And you've got to protect yourself from nuts."

Exactly. Sometimes, nuance is overrated. Especially when it starts looking like intellectual preening.

Plus if you read all the way to the end, you get to learn about the "genius" of heroin addicts like Lenny Bruce:

"Once I hear a guy is a heroin addict, and they tell me he's a genius, I think, really? I'm not trying to be judgmental. But anybody whose last vision is of a tile pattern on a bathroom floor, I don't know what kind of genius they are."

(Link via the Perfesser)