The president as towel-snapper

Did a search and didn't see a post on this; apologies if I'm repeating.)

There's a brilliant piece today over at the Santa Cruz Sentinel on the rise of "bully culture" in politics, entertainment, sports, and business. The snarling John Bolton. The swaggering Donald Trump. The sneering Darth Dick Cheney. Reality TV, American Idol, and Survivor. The screaming End Timers. The Republican Party as "spiritual home of the bully, where merry thugs like Tom Delay and Rick Santorum thrive like cockroaches in a junkie's kitchen."

And W?

As for the president, he's always struck me as a particular sub-species of the bully you might call a "towel snapper." You know the type, the guy who puts his arms around your shoulders for a good-natured, insincere apology after pulling a nuclear wedgie on you in front of the whole school at assembly.

The author thinks bullies always get their comeuppance; let us fervently pray he is right and work to make it so....