Clowning Around

The following excerpt is from James Howard Kunstler's "The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle", published every monday morning. Kunstler's entry of 9/17/07 "Shocked, Shocked!" follows up on the recently released book by Alan Greenspan "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". While Kunstler may be right that Greenspan bears considerably more responsibility for the rise and fall of the housing market, noone can doubt the veracity of his observations when it comes to the cultural significance of the physiognomy of the venerable Greenspan. On this point, I quote Kunstler in full:

"In his old age, Alan Greenspan's face -- once darkly handsome in his youthful years as a jazz musician -- has taken on the strange appearance of a circus clown. Something about the way his lips have settled into a kind of thick fatuous smile, even when he is apparently not amused by anything. Is it one of God's clever little tricks to leave him looking like a clown in his valedictory years, or has his face just resolved into the perfect embodiment of leadership for a clown nation?"

I don't understand why Kunstler is not tapped to replace Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes. Observations like that are priceless--enough to make a working stiff chuckle week in and week out. If not 60 minutes, then at least the NYTimes. Somebody recognize this guy's talent!