This 11 page bush bash was in the NYT on Sunday. I've been avoiding memeing it for 24 hours. Its just too long. And its not news. But its absolutely everywhere. Every blog is discussing it. So I decided that some people up here might enjoy reading it. So here it is.

] In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that
] the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications
] director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush.
] He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me
] something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I
] now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
]
] The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based
] community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions
] emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and
] murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism.
] He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he
] continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own
] reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will
] -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too,
] and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all
] of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"

The New York Times - Magazine - Without a Doubt