Great post...as usual.... when is the book coming out? and while on the topic-have you read A brief history of the millenium (until now) by dave barry (I'm sure you have)...its hillarious-and very reminiscent of your style of writing (though yours is more refined-and I mean that as a compliment).
'Someday I will make thousands of India’s common people, the multitudes who have spent their lives in buses and carts and crowded trains, come to an airport for the first time and then stay there without food or water for well over a week because the plane is delayed due to unavoidable technical reason!”' Priceless!!! I am sure this is EXACTLY what he had imagined- don't know how you come up with these gems-but-keep 'em coming....:-)