text: How timely!
  
  A new book out: "Hitler, Ascent" by Volker Ullrich
  
  From the NY Times review:
  
  "A new biography portrays Hitler as a clownish, deceitful narcissist who took control of a powerful nation thanks to slick propaganda and a dysfunctional elite that failed to block his rise."
  
  "How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a 'half-insane rascal,' a 'pathetic dunderhead,' a 'nowhere fool,' a 'big mouth' — rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? What persuaded millions of ordinary Germans to embrace him and his doctrine of hatred? How did this 'most unlikely pretender to high state office' achieve absolute power in a once democratic country and set it on a course of monstrous horror?"
  
  Hmmm ... do the descriptions fit any contemporary political candidate?
  
  Should we be worried?  Nahhh ... vote Libertarian so you can feel superior.
  
  -- Paul