Here's this week's gem (retrieved from behind the annoying log-in wall of the Sunday NYTimes online): P. J. O'Rourke absolutely takes apart a new book on slanguage and pop cultcha references in speech. There is, I suspect, a mostly unvoiced political edge to O'Rourke's critique. The author of the book in question, Leslie Savan, got her start as a media/advertising critic in Village Voice. But he stays pretty well away from screeding and focuses on ripping the book a new one. Reminds me of what, to me, is still the gold standard of NYTimes Book Review slash-and-burns, a review (this must go back a good 10 years or so) of one of the Tom Clancy books by G. Gordon Liddy, of all people.