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You may recall Benjamin Hoff’s popular book Tbe Tao of Pooh (“[i]n which it is revealed that one of the world’s great Taoist masters isn’t Chinese–or a venerable philosopher–but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear”). When President Biden welcomed the Irish Prime Minister (“Taoiseach” Leo Varadkar) to the White House yesterday, the president displayed the Tao of Joe. It is the Tao of a senescent dolt. The Daily Mail goes in for a close-up in “Joe Biden wields cheat sheet for White House meeting with Taoiseach telling him how to pronounce Irish leader’s name and title.”