Is it just me, or are there a few too many reviews of Nancy Pelosi's book on Amazon.com? I'm not saying I don't think it's possible for the American people to be quite so interested in this book. It is rerun season after all, people have more time. But here's the thing. The book came out TWO DAYS AGO, and there's already 195 incredibly negative reviews on it. For some reason, this raises a flag.

First off, I want to say "fuck you, conservatives" for leading me down the dark conspiracy theory highway. It's a place I like to avoid because personally, I like logic and science and a conspiracy theory sort of spits in the face of both of those concepts. But when the reviews start pouring in, I start saying to myself, "this seems organized..." Cause here's the thing: I'm an obsessive type. So I went on Amazon.com and counted how many reviews of Harry Potter: Book 7 came out by July 24, 2007. Deathly Hollows came out on July 21, 2007, (21st-24th is the same time span as Nancy's debut date to now.) The number is around 570. OK, I didn't count them individually, eventually I just started counting by the tens. Counting isn't fun for me, ok?

Now, 570 is bigger than Pelosi's current (I'm writing this at 10 AM) 213, no question. I'm not so stupid that I can't see which number can eat the other. But it's only about half as small. Is someone out there really trying to say that Nancy Pelosi is half as reviled as Harry Potter is loved? I say to you, BULLSHIT. I live in New York, a city of cynicism and anger. Last night, I was hanging out with a couple friends and the discussion came up about there possibly being anti-depressants in NYC water. All three of us had the same thought: The subways wouldn't be cranky. Have you taken the L at eight o'clock in the morning? Have you watched as three packed trains fly by your stop, standing there, tapping your foot in the humid depths of a Brooklyn subway stop and knowing that your boss just won't accept the train as your excuse anymore? It makes you pissed off enough that you need happy pills by the handful, and then you get on the train and it's worse.

But when The Deathly Hollows came out, the city read it. New York City was swept up in a tale of a magic 17-year-old, doing magic with his gal-pal who there was NOTHING going on with. You'd get on the trains and people weren't talking to each other. Everyone was just reading Harry Potter. Harry Potter turned an island and at least three separate land masses full of impatient, grumpy mother-fuckers into fantasy obsessed ten-year-olds.

I don't believe that Nancy Pelosi hits half the people that Harry Potter does. I don't think that two hundred people bought her book, read it, and felt so mad that they had to blast her on Amazon.com in a two day period. Frankly, I don't think America is interested enough in women's rights (the subject of the book) to do that. And that's why I encourage all of you to follow my example and write a review on Amazon.com. Here's mine: