January 1, 2008 at 15:54:43

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Philip Roth's "Our Gang:" A Satirical Purgative for the Last Seven Years

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Help me here. Is the old saying, “starve a cold, feed a fever” or “feed a fever, starve a cold?” Either way, the American electorate of a certain persuasion has been starved of the kind of satire that Roth has achieved in “Our Gang.” It can’t change the last seven years and it may not affect the next seven, but damn, it sure changed the way I felt for a couple of hours.

And I thought how great it would be if Mr. Roth would write, “The Bush Gang.” But then I thought, what the hell, just change a few names.

Admittedly, Roth’s genius is not a cure for a raging head cold, but it is a dose of “yeah, well take that” catharsis that can ease the way into the last 385 days of a difficult eight years.

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