Friday, February 22, 2008

Brian Urquhart reads John Bolton's Memoir

...and you can too:

Not surprisingly, Bolton's stubbornly held opinions often involved him in arguments and even rows, which he appears to enjoy in a joyless sort of way. His epithets map out the vast landscape of disapproval: The High Minded, The True Believers, Candle Lighters, Crusaders of Compromise, The Weak-kneed, The Chattering Class, Euroids, Mattress Mice, EAPeasers (members of the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs), and so on.

--Brian Urquhart, "One Man Angry," New York Review of Books
March 6, 2008 12-15,14.
Mattress Mice?

Update: Mrs. B says he must have meant mattress lice.

Update to Update: A web search yields this, but I still think maybe Mrs. B is onto something.

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