Zut alors! Shrub est l'etranger!

You couldn't make this shit up. It has just been revealed that George W Bush's holiday reading included The Outsider by Albert Camus.

Now, don't get me wrong - The Outsider is a great book, albeit one of those books (like The Catcher in the Rye, On the Road and Siddhartha) that you should probably read in your late teens or early-to-mid 20s. Or at least somewhat before the age of 60, George.

Still, whatever - after all, I'm no better - there are thousands of books I feel I should have read by now, but haven't. These things are always better late than never.

But here's the funny-stroke-weird thought that sprung into my head when I first heard about this (apart from the general, bizarre concept of Dubya reading existentialist, anti-authority, anti-religious - not to mention French - literature in the first place)...

It's that The Outsider is the book Robert Smith was writing about when he penned The Cure's first single... which went by the name of... 'Killing an Arab'... (for that is the main incident that happens in the book).

Hmmmmm.