An equal-opportunity irritant

You don’t have to agree with former Mexican president Vicente Fox on everything to enjoy his book, "Revolution of Hope," which I’m barely fifty pages into and already impressed with its compelling candor and humor. It’s easy to see why some Mexicans find him as hard to take as some gringos do. He irritates them by airing such dirty laundry as their culture of bribery and manana tardiness, while bugging us by championing the illegal immigrants who swarm our southern border. But it’s hard not to listen to (and like) the fellow who grew up milking cows on the rancho of his Cincinnati-born grandfather, and tying strings to the tails of dragonflies because he couldn’t afford a kite. I think he’s short-sighted about Iraq, but in his best incarnation, he’s a globalist, a capitalist and a free-marketeer whose ideal is the one his Jesuit professors taught him and his peers of being "men for others."