Not that supreme

A couple of weeks ago (August 30), I approvingly quoted a passage from Christopher Buckley's 2008 comic novel, Supreme Courtship. It went pretty much downhill from there, the improbable plot mechanically controlling the descent. The TV judge is installed on the court, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee takes her place on TV (as the President of the United States in a drama based on "West Wing" titled "POTUS"), POTUS's subsequent popularity fuels his run for president against the president who nominated the TV judge, in the meantime the requisite number of states ratify a constitutional amendment limiting presidents to a single term, the incumbent wins and is sued by POTUS, the Supreme Court takes the case, and the TV judge casts the deciding vote in favor of the incumbent. Wow, what a plot <ugh>.
    I'm not sure I'll read another "comic novel" by Christopher Buckley. But I still highly recommend his memoir, Losing Mum and Pup, in which Buckley reports his father's reaction to reading one of his son's novels, "Doesn't do it for me."
    Now I think I know why. From the Buckley family, in the way of fiction, I think I prefer William F.'s novels about Blackford Oakes, the Yale CIA officer.