The Month in Review

The President-Elect
Here.

No ado. There's never any ado anymore.

OCTOBER BOOK LIST

COMICS

Jason Aaron
-(Guera, illust.) Scalped, issue 22.

Jonathan Ames
-(haspiel, illust.) The Alcoholic.

Warren Ellis
-(Pagliarani, illust.) Aetheric Mechanics.
-(Rodriguez, illust.) Doktor Sleepless, issues 1-9.
-(Ryp, illust.) No Hero, issues 0-2.

David Lapham
-(Lapham, illust.) Young Liars, issue 8.

Matt Wagner
-(Hadley, illust.) Madame Xanadu, issue 5.

Joss Whedon
-(with Matthews; conrad, illust.) Serenity: Better Days.
-(with Matthews; conrad, illust.) Serenity: Those Left Behind.

Bill Willingham
-(Buckingham, illust.) Fables, issue 77.

G. Willow Wilson
-(Perker, illust.) Air, issue 3.
-(Perker, illust.) Cairo.

Brian Wood
-(Donaldson, illust.) DMZ, issue 35.
-(Kelly, illust.) Northlanders, issue 11.

FICTION

Cormac McCarthy
-The Road

NON-FICTION

Richard Dawkins
-The God Delusion.

Al Gore
-The Assault on Reason.

Sam Harris
-Letter to a Christian Nation.

Hotteterre
-Principes De La Flute.

Sarah Vowell
-The Wordy Shipmates.

C.F. Weideman
-(with Anonymous) Compleat Instructions for the Fife.

I want to pull on one thing this month: The Assault on Reason. I read, of course, Al Gore's The Assault on Reason, Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, Damian Thompson's Counterknowledge, and Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates this month, and all of them had at least a little to do with the rise of Bad Ideas to prominence in our cultural-political sphere.

You know who personified that? Sarah Motherfucking Palin. You know who won't be our vice-president anytime soon? Sarah Motherfucking Palin.

W00t.