Review
Stuart Whatley
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
Asshole
Rising
by
stuart
whatley
DAVID TROOD/GETTY IMAGES
HuffPost senior
blog editor,
possible asshole
EOFFREY NUNBERG STATES early in his new book, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, that,
“What I’m interested in isn’t a distinct species of congenital jerks, but a social condition and a disposition that everyone is liable to on trying occasions.” He dismisses those
who would limn the subtle distinctions between “asshole,”
“assclown” or “douchebag,” writing, “everyone recognizes
asshole as the primary name of a basic category of Ameri-