"It's a book." Yup. Others have said what I would say in answer to that. Just to add to the list, so is the Bible. So is the Koran. So is Das Kapital. "That's all it is," you say? That's all it needs to be.

Too bad I'm going to have to miss 60 Minutes tonight. It sounds like it's a good one. But at 7:00 p.m. when it comes on here locally, I will be at Central Lutheran Church on Seattle's Capitol Hill, where Washington State 7th District Congressman Jim McDermott (D) will be speaking. Got to get there early, because the place will be jammed. Last time he spoke there, the church was so packed that people who didn't get there way early didn't get in. I'll take notes.

Don Firth