DAMN YOU LEMONY SNICKETT!

as usual, the book was awesome. But due to Handler's handlers, we must wait another year to find out the plight of the poor Baudelaire children and the plans of the evil Count Olaf.

I gotta confess, if you like fun writing, with a flair for the slightly gothic, The Series of Unfortunate Events books are awesome. Currently, there are 11 in the series, and they do come out more consistently than a certain British author of children's' books with more money than the bloody queen.

Also reading: Hegemony or Survival: America's quest for global dominance (Noam Chomsky) and You Have The Power: take back our country and restore democracy in America (Howard Dean.)
Just thinking again (watch out everyone!): how much more fun would the Dean/Bush debates have been? Dr. Howard would have never agreed to this kind of wanton censorship of the democratic process. But, really -- is anyone surprised that the Bush administration (with the aid of Democratic complacency) has absolutely ransacked the idea of free and open debate in the American political arena?