Ah, LH, your rant about "like" reminded me of one I can't believe I forgot. You folks across the pond have taken a ma09999999999j (cat again) major cultural icon off our hands, and welcome to her.

I am speaking of course of Madonna, who now adds the children's author string to her -- bow, saying she couldn't find any books about values, and like, they aren't about anything.

Well, who did she ask? A knowledgeable bookstore person? A young people's librarian? Does she read books she bought at Kmart or Walmart? And why did she wait until her kid was 2 to start reading to him, anyway? Why does such a great mother not know you start 6 months, at the latest?

Or might a c54allruslewsd (cat) I callously think it is a shameless self-promotion ploy for her book, which just happens to insult the talented writers and book people already in the world?

Everyone in my field is waiting with bated breth to see what the material girl, whose first venture into publishing was hard-core porn, thinks is a book about "Values."