elfs | When Prophets Fall

One of my other errands this weekend was off to the used book store, to drop off two shopping bags full of books (mostly out of date Unix and Java texts, a ton of unloved romances, and some equally unloved sex manuals, starting with Different Loving and working my way up from there).

The guy at the back of the store said it'd be about 20 minutes, maybe longer, to process all of them, so I wandered up and down the aisles, looking for stuff. Picked up a copy of Dhampyr, finally; I promised Barb and JC months ago at the Rainforest Writers Retreat that I'd get around to reading it eventually. I also found a book by Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun who's made quite a name for herself by writing accessibly and who I've wanted to read even though I have an essential distaste for the Mahayana progress-through-others approach. So far have been modestly impressed.

But as I was wandering through the aisles, I came across the remaindered bin, the last of the last, "buy it before we pulp it" table. And there on the table was Can She Be Stopped, a book that said "Hillary Clinton Will Be Our Next President, Unless..."

Unless the Republican party nominates Rudy Guiliani, apparently.

Well, we all know how well all that prognostication worked out, don't we? The book is by Norman Podhoretz, PNAC founder, self-described neoconservative, and writer for Commentary, a magazine that tries to out-Buckley National Review.