I'd be all for taking Dubya out were it not for the fact that this would make Cheney the Vile President. I can't remember the last time I was so anxious about American elections...

I've been meaning to ask - would John and Scorpius in "Kansas" (your story, not the episode) have been gallivanting about in a post-9/11 America, or was the story written before the Patriot Act?