Bulletin from the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" Dept.: Chimpy the Prez threatens to write a book

"Look up!" cried Prince Phillip, but our Chimpy wasn't falling for that one -- again. Luckily, Mrs. Chimpy was on hand to look up, just in case there was a safe or a piano or something falling on her husband at Windsor Castle. Chimpy was only the second U.S. president, after Ronald Reagan, invited by Queen Elizabeth II to her favorite residence. The Reagans, however, were overnight guests, while the Chimpys were hustled out after an hour. (As the president himself might put it: How do you say "trailer-park trash" in English?)

"[I]n an interview with the Observer, Bush said he's thinking about writing a memoir.

"'I'm going to think about that, yes -- writing a book,' he said, adding that he also planned to build a 'freedom institute' along with his presidential library at Southern Methodist University."

--Chimpy the Prez, in London, quoted by Dan Eggen in today's Washington Post

Meanwhile, our Chimpy was telling Rupert Murdoch's Times, speaking of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq:

"I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," he said, adding that phrases such as "bring them on" or "dead or alive" may have "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."

Both thunderbolts seem to call for comment of some sort, but I'm rendered speechless.

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