This is a word that gets tossed around all too much these days, especially in a world that seems determined to make the word superfluous.

Still, there is no other word for this piece from today’s Slate magazine.

I won’t give away the whole story, but the headline reads: Why is George Bush reading Camus?

If you are to believe this claim (and it comes in a long line of incredible claims about W’s vacation reading), our President is quite the student of philosophy, fond of discussing the origins of existentialism with Press Secretary Tony Snow.

So let’s just put this up to a vote:

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