Rivka, the thoughtful psychologist who writes Respectful of Otters, lambasted psychoanalyst Justin Frank’s armchair analysis of George Bush even more vociferously than I did. Remarkably, Frank wrote back to Rivka to defend himself. I agree with her that his defense is not very convincing, but he joins me in wondering if we don’t have a special abiding interest in this kind of knowledge about our national leaders, particularly with an election looming (particularly with the fate of the earth looming…). On the other hand, I suspect that anyone au courant enough to become concerned on the basis of a psychoanalytic portrait is someone who had already made their mind up on the basis of more conventional evidence, as Rivka agrees.