But the incidence of Yahooism seemed lower than last fall.

Now, it is obliviousness with a dollop of yahooism.

They weren't fooled by the pork-rind act and efforts to plug himself into the yahooism of darkest Texas.

The yahooism he had always despised was suddenly yoked to an ideology he viewed as reckless.

Thursday night's captains' meeting and beer bust on the yacht club grounds had been decidedly lacking in yahooism.

"It was the spirit of yahooism that led to the logging restrictions," says Marc Depolo, a longtime Earth First activist.

My guess is that Mr. Grizzard thinks of himself as a good ol' bad-boy, what with his bathroom jokes (see book title) and studied yahooism.

Poor, confused Dubuque: the epitome of yahooism for Ross and the symbol of pure, upright Americana for Luce.

At best they display a yahooism that says art doesn't matter, at worst a political agenda that says anti-government opinions have no place in any event linked to 9/11.

Buck reaches a height of flailing yahooism in a garbled monologue that imagines the Mayflower piloted by Christopher Columbus landing at Plymouth Rock in 1492.

He includes Decalcomania, Xenophobia, Yahooism, and Zymolysis in a list of human diseases; his "Game Preserve" is a Parcheesi-like board game laid out in a landscape.

"You weren't going to change Yahoo in an important way unless you get the culture and the people to reassess some of the fundamental tenants of Yahooism," said Lanny Baker, an analyst for Salomon Smith Barney.

In its satirical acuity, "Wag the Dog" eclipses even "Network" (1976), Sidney Lumet's bitterly funny attack on the plug-in drug and American yahooism, which until now was as bold a satire of media power as Hollywood had produced.

The notion of a phony war with Canada concocted to distract the United States from its economic woes is the amusing premise behind "Canadian Bacon," a satire of American yahooism that aspires to be the 90's answer to "Dr. Strangelove."