I am not a habitual a visitor to rotten.com, as just a handful of the images of human suffering resident there, viewed years ago, were enough to permanently scar my mind.

However, I’ve just discovered that the site also hosts a series of biographical articles. There are few guilty pleasures more guilty or pleasurable than reading a hatchet job done upon a richly deserving target; there are few targets more richly deserving than Karl Rove.