windbag

He inhabits a space populated by right-wing windbags who have convinced each other, through endless repetition, that they are the most put-upon people in history.

Yet there he stood — noted anti-vaxxer, suspected antisemite, overexposed anti-logic windbag — in a position to hijack attention and humiliate a league that has gone to great lengths to promote social equality.

A beekeeper recounts his experience moving from novice to master, providing ample advice and presenting the eccentrics, oddballs and, as our reviewer, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, put it, “flagrantly self-promoting windbags” he encounters along the way.

Its brevity made it an excellent vehicle for wit — a barb for puncturing bloated egos and windbag grandiosity.

He knows which way the wind is blowing, and he will do his best to become a windbag that blows in that direction, whatever humiliating deflation is required first.