Dr. Lynne Cheney, PhD

I have a feeling everyone knows this already. But I'm supposed to know stuff like our current reactionary VP's wife wrote a hot and steamy novel about strong women of the Wild West in quasi-lesbian situations. Thanks for Frank Rich for the heads-up in today's NYT column about Deadwood. Here's some good info on the book. Here's excerpts from the boys at whitehouse.org. Here's a more sardonic look. Score one for irony that first editions cost more than first editions of Huck Finn.

P.S. All you generous gift-givers out there, I'm still waiting for that first edition of Gravity's Rainbow. Hell, its cheaper than Sisters.