Steve D Swanson wrote: Yet you look at a standard bookstore in Canada or the United States and you read through most books and you can come to a pretty fair conclusion; either Conservatives don't exist, or they are all evil, or they simply are incapable of reading. I'm not talking about the political books necessarily (though the Conservative ones are usually heavily outnumbered by the Liberal books)...

You haven't been to a Costco lately, although I don't know if you have them in Canada.  The hardcover book aisle is usually chock full of the latest conservative drivel warning people about the evils of Democrats and/or Liberals.  Maybe it's just the publishing schedule, but conservative books get a ton of play at Costco along with a pretty robust religious section.

She's a hoot. Total goofball - but in that really good way that only hot girls
can pull off.

In a Tea Leone way?

I didn't know the fiction section was divided up into liberal/conservative sections?

And I agree wioth most of the above, if it will sell, it's on the shelves, if it won't it's recycled, if it gets that far.

I have no exposure to Tea Leoni.

Hmm, well, I'm not gonna expose her here AL, sorry. Feel free to google though...

Edit: Dang it, 1000th post went bye bye waaaaay back!?

Dudes, I have a costco membership, but I've only gone once* - it's such a pain - it's insanely crowded, it closes early (hard for a night owl like me) and the lines are ri--god-damned-diculous.

You guys got any secrets?  Special time of the day to go? Shopping tips?

Oh, plus?  One year, at my Masonic Lodge, for the holidays, one of the brothers went to Costco (price tag still on book) and bought us all copies of Rush Limbaugh's book. 

*er - since I got this membership as an adult - I used to go with my grandma all the time when she was around, and a former room-mate worked there, so I went then, too...