While shoving individual cheerios in my baby's mouth with one hand, and feebly attempting to shove oatmeal in my own, I was multi-tasking by going through the mail pile, and noticed started thumbing through a catalog, where I discovered this book and burst out laughing.

Nothing against the author, but but are you kidding me? What would a book about "past life regression" contain? Especially a book designed as a do-it-yourself tutorial. But in trying to find the picture of the book, Amazon recommended, "The Idiot's Guide to Reincarnation." I think I could write that book...

Chapter 1
Don't do anything different than what you are doing right now. Good, you'll be reincarnated.

I guess it just goes to show that you can write a book for idiots and dummies on just about anything, and the idiots and dummies will buy it. I should say that, those series are pretty good (hey, they have a formula that works), and while I would be embarrassed to buy or display one of those books, the one on Wine Tasting was actually pretty interesting.

Anyway, I was thinking it would be fun to come up with my own idiot and dummy titles that would be amusing. This like:

• Texas for Dummies
• Burning Down Your House for Dummies
• Ingesting Snail Bait for Dummies

But not only am I not that funny or clever, I figured that someone must have already done this. Sure enough, we have, Running for Governor for Dummies.

But still, the best ones are still real, like, Sex for Dummies, or even The Idiot's Guide To Amazing Sex. You'd think that if rabbits could figure it out, homo sapiens could. I bet most people buy them for friends as jokes, but that the recipient reads them. Hrm... maybe I should buy them for my wife … you know, as a joke.