Kids love Michael Crichton’s popular dinosaur stories, but they probably don’t know he’s a demented right-wing crank who stuffs his wooden-plotted thrillers with puerile attacks on his many, many enemies — mostly journalists who call him on his endless sociopathic bullshit.

The latest victim of Crichton’s typing-with-boxing-gloves characterization skill is New Republic writer Michael Crowley, who magically becomes a child rapist in the wonderful imagination of Michael Crichton. Details after the jump.

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We generally give the President the benefit of the doubt, dismiss claims that he’s an imbecile, and find the often obvious political and tactical brilliance in his seeming missteps. Then we go and read something like this: MORE »

An operative writes to alert us that certified blockbustersaurus Michael Crichton is testifying today before Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The man who gave the world Disclosure–you know, the book that demonstrated sexual harassment is a tool of oppression wielded by powerful women over their countless male-drone underlings–will now be holding forth on the state of global warning. His qualifications, you ask? He’s written a novel about on the subject, and–we hope you’re sitting down–the book in question, State of Fear, is, in the words of our tipster, “a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat story about its hero’s struggle against those who are trying to dupe the world into thinking global warming is a real problem.”  MORE »