for the ill, the pills

special medical announcement:

the antidote to joan didion has long been available.  keep this in mind if you encounter this (all too typical) report of the old lady's recent activities in today's nyt:

The week after the election, in a talk at the New York Public Library, Ms. Didion lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama had become an “irony-free zone,” a vast Kool-Aid tank where “naïveté, translated into ‘hope,’ was now in” and where “innocence, even when it looked like ignorance, was now prized.”

barbara grizzutti harrison's original antidote dates to 1979.  but medical science is always advancing: in 2007, bruce bawer offered another curative breakthrough.