Joe Garofoli writes:
Is Goodnight Bush, the recently published parody of the best-selling children's classic Goodnight Moon, supposed to be laugh-out-loud funny or heaving-sigh sad?

The authors - San Franciscan Erich Origen and Los Angeles resident Gan Golan - prefer the term traumedy. As in, they're trying to wrap eight traumatic years of the nation's history in a few good laughs.

It's full of lines like "And a quiet Dick Cheney whispering 'hush.' " The accompanying image: The vice president, wearing bunny slippers, with a shotgun across his lap.

The book is a visual critique of the Bush administration, from the culture wars to the Iraq War, with the only constant being George W. Bush, clad in a "Mission Accomplished"-era flight suit, curled up on his bed. READ MORE