Maybe there's another reason besides volcanic ash that Obama is cutting his trip to Indonesia short. Among the handful of eye-opening tidbits that emerged when the Times talked to locals about the boy they once knew as Barry — such as the fact that his former nanny later joined a transvestite group called Fantastic Dolls, who, as per Jakarta custom, entertained people by dancing and playing volleyball (volleyball?) in the street — is that young Barry was a sort of amateur Vizzini.
His nanny was an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia's relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher, ...