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"The 2002 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker, is due out with Checkpoint — an extended dialogue on killing (in a variety of strange ways) George Bush. Last year, comedian Rick Hall played to full houses in the U.K., performing his newest composition, “Let's Get Together and Kill George Bush.” A so-called pacifist group announced its sponsorship of a rather violent-sounding off-Broadway “guerilla comedy” entitled, I’m Gonna Kill the President."

Taking cues from AQ?

Scary stuff ... .

"The 2002 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker, is due out with Checkpoint — an extended dialogue on killing (in a variety of strange ways) George Bush.

I walked into a S.F. bookstore looking for Unfit For Command and didn't find it, but did find Checkpoint. It's a tiny, short book. I breezed through it in about 45 minutes just so I could say that I didn't judge it before reading it.

My verdict? I'm no envirowacko, but it's sad trees died to make that book. It's an extended rant on how rotten Bush and Cheney are, and the GOP, and how although the Democrats are corrupt too, they aren't as bad.

There was ONE surprise. Baker submits that the Democrats would still be in charge of all three branches of government if it wasn't for their slavish devotion to abortion on demand.

All in all, not worth the money or the controversy. If you want to know the ending, right-click and drag across the below space:

The guy who brought a gun to kill Bush is talked out of it by his friend. The guy was nuts anyway -- he thought he had magic bullets that would seek out their target.