Boxer shorts

Bill at INDC Journal has scored 3 -- count 'em -- 3! excerpts from Senator Barbara Boxer's forthcoming novel (here, here, and here) to be published by Chronicle Books in November, 2005 -- too late for that killer beach book you were hoping for, but just in time for stuffing some Blue Stater's stocking.

Ok.Ok. Here's a tease:

"'NO! I will not permit the rape of this fragile ecosystem!' bellowed Ellen courageously, staring down the inhuman glare of the bulldozer's jagged jaws, as she determinedly set the heels of her Kate Spade tan suede boots into the spongy Alviso silty clay loam of Gaia's exposed and trembling bosom."