Best paragraph of the day, so far

[President Bush] concluded with the traditional (since Reagan) introduction of model citizens up in the gallery, including Julie Aigner-Clark, the founder (with her husband, a generous donor to Republican campaigns) of the Baby Einstein Company. The President did not explain how Aigner-Clark, whose business sells “developmental” videos for infants, which the American Academy of Pediatrics has dismissed as at best valueless, exemplifies what he called “the heroic kindness, courage, and self-sacrifice of the American people.” Maybe it was just another Bush SOTU puzzler, like last year’s warning against “human-animal hybrids.” (To be fair, America remains proudly centaur-free.)

Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker