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Pumping Irony

Jeff Taylor | 10.8.2003 9:31 AM

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As I sat bleary-eyed at 1:41 AM EST listening to an impossibly broad-chested man declare he was an "out-sidah," I couldn't help but notice that arrayed behind him, with their fulsome smiles and die-cast cheekbones, was an entire wing of an American political dynasty.

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Jeff Taylor is a contributing editor at Reason.

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