On the eve of Scooter Libby’s arraignment (who’s bringin’ the bubbly?), 
Atrios writes:
“Between Horny Bear Scooter and Strip Search Sammy I’m really starting to wonder what the hell is up with your modern Republican party… ”
Scooter Libby’s The Apprentice: A Novel is selling hot here through our association with Powell’s.
And, who wouldn’t buy the novel by an indicted former chief of staff to V.P. Dick Cheney?
But, lordy! What’s in this book! Check this out:
“At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.”
Shakes Sis has more. There is a lot I could say about this but I’ll just note in passing that it took Libby 20 years to finish this book. Which means that this passage about poking a horny bear with a stick is the product of a labor of love that lasted longer than many marriages.
Shakes Sis also has quotes from the New Yorker review in 1996:
Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”
