Madeleine Not-At-Albright

Madeleine Not-At-Albright is such an absurd figure -- easily the worst Secretary of State in my lifetime (Warren Christopher doesn't count because it's not nice to make fun of nearly dead people, even if they hold an important office) -- and at some point, I began to look forward to her public appearances, which always led to public utterances that were just too easy for a laugh, in the same manner of, say, Gerald Ford falling down stairs and off stages, or Jimmy Carter being attacked by a rabbit, or Joycelyn Elders expressing delight at her condom tree. But my heart just isn't in it now. I could only get about halfway through the coverage of her latest idiocy, and my eyes glazed over. When she started talking about North Korea, I could only think of her Y2K fashion standoff with North Korea's dictator.

Kathryn Lopez has a slightly more analytical reaction.

[Posted at 20:19 CST on 02/01/02] [Link]