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This is one of the best glossaries of the Busheviks that we have come across. It is billed as "a comprehensive alphabetical guide to George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, other aspects of the Far Right, and related topics."

In short, this 333-page book by Bill Potts is a clinical guide to the key players and concepts in the psychotic cult of Bushevism.

This is a multi-use book, meaning you can read it from cover to cover, browse through it at the entries that interest you, or use it as a reference book on all things Bushevik.

Potts is thorough and comprehensive, but not without a wry sense of humor.

Take, for example, Potts' definition of disassemble: "Take apart, as in 'He disassembled the entire mechanism.' However, in Bush's vocabulary, disassemble appears to have an entirely different meaning. [Then Potts includes a May 31, 2005, quotation from Bush.] 'It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of – and the allegations – by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble – that means not to tell the truth.'" As Potts drolly notes, "His meaning may, of course, be applicable to him."

Of course, what makes this so pathetically humorous is that Bush meant, of course, the word "dissemble," defined in the Miriam Webster dictionary as "to hide under a false appearance." This, of course, correctly captures the essence of Bush, even if he can't get the word right and turns alleged terrorists into assembly plant workers.

And can you get anymore succinct and accurate than defining the word "distortion" in the cult of Bushevism to mean, "This is the stock and trade of the Bush Administration." It certainly covers the recent terror "alerts" that were blown out of all proportion to press the emotional hot buttons of fear in the American public so as to get them to vote Republican in the fall.

Of course, who could forget the loathsome Ma Barker of the Bush clan, Barbara Bush?

Potts claims that Nixon said in praise of her, "She knows how to hate."

Of course no one says it "better" than Barbara , as Potts reminds us of Babs' comments on Good Morning America in 2003 when she told Diane Sawyer, "But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

Or how about the priceless Cheney quote during his service in the Ford Administration: "Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose." Maybe Cheney was just expressing his admiration for Stalin.

But "Bushopedia" isn't just focused on the heads of the Bush crime family. It delves into the made men and women in the "enforcement crew" -– and to the decimated government agencies and radical concepts of Bushevisim.

As we've said before, you always need a well-researched, entertainingly written book like this now and then to help you tie the dots together of the Bushevik pathology.

Reading "Bushopedia," you are reminded that it is the social and civilized outcasts and extremists who are now running the nation.

It's all right there in black and white in "Bushopedia."

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