I've felt guilty devoting what tiny reading time I can scrape together to something completely unrelated to politics, nonprofit startups, volunteerism and social theory. George Lakoff and volumes like What's the Matter With Kansas? cause me to shrink away and immediately think about something else. Like those kooky jokes in Laffy Taffies. I just shoulda been sucking those pertinent books dry, but they had to wait. Instead, for the last months, I've eeked through a random historical text... about the 1883 Krakatoa eruption off the coast of Sumatra, and its deadly tsunamis. 120-foot waves, versus the 40-foot ones this last Sunday, if you can imagine. That one only (if only's the word) killed ~30,000 people. Let's just hope the numbers from this one slow their upward march.