Next, You’re Going To Tell Me Someone Remembers That So-Called "Wall" In Germany

Marty Peretz, while engaging in some pro forma lunacy about the Middle East, unleashes some quite original lunacy:

Who knows what animates Gorbachev? Maybe he hopes just to be remembered. He won’t be. Certainly not by the Russian people. A passing figure. Not even one on whom American colleges will bestow honorary degrees.

I mean, really, can you add anything to this that would be remotely as funny? Actually, apparently you can:

I concede that Marty is probably better at extracting honorary degrees than Gorbachev, and conclude that it’s a shame Raisa wasn’t some sort of sewing-machine heiress so her husband could purchase some endowed chairs in, say, yiddish literature.

Zing! But I’m sure they’ve already forgotten that Spencer Ackerman guy…