Mark Kurlansky on G. Dubs reading his book.

From The Guardian:

What does it mean that George W Bush, a man who has demonstrated little ability for reflection, who is known to read no newspapers and whose headlong charge into disaster after cataclysm has shown a complete ignorance of history, who wants to throw out centuries of scientific learning and replace it with mythical mumbo-jumbo that he mistakenly calls religion, who preaches Christianity but seems to have never read the teachings of the great anti-war activist, Jesus Christ, is now spending his vacation reading my book, Salt: A World History?

I haven't read Salt yet, though it seems like I have.  I gave it to Josh for Christmas last year and it was all I heard about for two months afterwards.  Salt salt salt.  He still pulls out little factoids from time to time.  He was even inspired to buy salted cod a few times.  (GROSS).  So while I'm not able to give the book the thumbs up yet (I'm going to have to break down and read it now--that first paragraph from the Guardian piece is pretty wonderful), I suspect that I'll end up liking it quite a bit.