11,600 google news results for Tom Wolfe and “Kool Aid”.  248,000 for Tom Wolfe and “Right Stuff”.  12,900 for Tom Wolfe and “Radical Chic”.

Strangely, “Acid Test” brings in 11,300.

I do see obituaries whose headline notes him as the author of “Electric Kool Aid Acid Test”, though — as you would expect from the search results here, the headlines highlighting “Right Stuff” are picked up by more sources.

Interesting to note.  Like assembling a new Beatles song out of old recordings, I suppose… John F Kennedy’s speech warning about the coming era of Trump (oh, if your partisanship fits that screed, you can read it that way), to be delivered right after he was shot in Dallas… now… delivered, out of old components of speeches.

The effect is powerful, if not perfect. At its best, Kennedy is clearly doing the talking; hearing him complete his mission for that day has moved many listeners to tears. At its worst, a robotic inflection on some phrases makes it sound like JFK inhabits an automated voice mail system.

Or, like South Park disassembling old episodes of Jerome “Chef” McElroy, when killing him off because of Issac Hayes’s dispute with the show over Scientology.  Which is pretty much how Kennedy is being automated here, right?  Just gotta find the right inflection of when Kennedy said the word “of” and “the”, or … autotone it, I guess.

And how is this being set up in the conspiratorial land of Trump?  Wait for it.

They’re about to fake a sex tape with Stormy Daniels!

Or, the They of the Deep State Industrial Complex New World Order can find tape of Stormy Daniels engaged in sex (is that available anywhere?) and merge it with the same of Donald Trump (I think the Ruskies may have some).

… unless we do.  Which… who knows?  Could resurface as a perennial candidate who wins eventually.
And, truthfully, someone will show up — maybe even win a primary… maybe even win the general… and it’ll be extinguishable from… hm… Don Blankenship’s contribution to campaign ads …

“Swamp Captain Mitch Mcconnell has created millions of jobs for China People.
While dosing so, Mitch has gotten rich.
In fact, his China People has given him tens of millions of dollars.
Mitch’s Swamp People are now running false, misleading ads against me.
They’re also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill.
The War to Drain the Swamp and create jobs for West Virginia People has began.
I will beat Joe Manchin and ditch Cocaine Mitch for the sake of the kids.”

It may be that elections are now the last refuge for a sort of public vindication — or at least airing of grievances– of a scoundrel.

Blankenship spent much of his campaign attempting to re-litigate the event for which he is now infamous—the 2010 explosion at his company’s Upper Big Branch mine that killed 29 miners—and his subsequent conviction for conspiring to commit federal mine safety violations. In the Trump era, he found a sympathetic audience by presenting himself as a “political prisoner” of President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.

All right.  So.  Joe Manchin-mania is… sweeping…
[…]

Points made about the naming of Oliver North as president for the NRA.  See Boing Boing comments.

I think there’s only one way to read this exhumation:
Suck on THAT, stupid libruls!!

A corrupt arms dealer who sold weapons to terrorists, in an effort to undermine a democracy.The NRA has become a left-wing parody of the NRA.

As described about here.

Sometimes it feels as though the current moment in American history is unique. At other times, there’s a disquieting déjà vu—for example, this week, when both Daniel Ortega, the Nicaragua Sandinista leader, and Ollie North, the American Marine who funneled weapons to his right-wing opponents the Contras, are both in the news.

And… wait.  What do we got here?

Can we get a HELL YEAH?! Oliver North to become next NRA President (cue snowflakes melting)
This. Is. So. Damn. Cool.

Sure.  The Heat.  Brought.  Snowflakes.  So fragile against the heat rays of Oliver North.  Just as… back in the day

may 4, 1993
Oliver North, the central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, blasted the Clinton Administration, suggested spending less on teaching foreign language in high school and reducing taxes during a speech Monday night at Hartwick College in Oneonta.

Or, you know.  Guns don’t kill people, Uccidere persone persone.  Some point to the cessation of school prayer, but really… it was…

The political divide showers us with… Evan Mecham showers us with a mock Communist letter telling us about the plot for gun confiscation.  It does take a minute to figure out from whence this letter is coming from, because the sarcastic arguments would have to be explained, even if it is fully encapsulated in the letterer to the editor’s mind.

Align this with the flutter of the comic at the Correspondents Dinner, with defenders at twitter making the charge in the way of “black woman says this — HOW OUTRAGEOUS.  Pro-lifer suggests death penalty for women — Let’s listen to what he has to say”…  Again, forced sarcasm, which we’re now mixing up hot topic issues and jumping to extremes to get to a argument of a double standard.  It’s a bit of a thick wicket… the twitterers who stuck with the obvious “… and Trump said what?”… are on better and more immediate ground.

(Then again, my point on finding next year’s safe comic brought me to Rich Little — which offers the question: is there someone female who can step in?  Oh.  Here’s an idea:  Roseanne Barr!!!)