Mr. Bush is vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, reading Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”. Maureen Dowd of the NYT had this to say about the president -

If you think about it long enough, though, it begins to make a sort of wacky sense.

”The Stranger” is about the emotionally detached Meursault, who makes a lot of bad decisions and pre-emptively kills an Arab in the sand. Get it? Camus’s protagonist moves through an opaque, obscure and violent world that is indifferent to his beliefs and desires. Get it?