It's that time of year again, folks. With Thanksgiving right around the corner and Turtle Creek Mall putting up their decorations, you probably ought to be making your Christmas list. On the top of the list is undoubtedly Shelby F. Thames, the person who has made the biggest impact on your life over the past year. So . . . what to get for the college president who (at least thinks he) has everything? Here's a thread for suggestions. Surely, Dr. Goebbels is maintaining Shelby's wish list. In the meantime, this is my choice for my buddy Shelboo:

How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator (2003)
by Andre de Guillaume
Hardcover, 140 pages, $15

Covers important topics like destroying your enemies, imposing a tyrannical regine, founding a new religion, maintaining a mistress, and retiring and getting away with it all.

Quote from the book:

"An absolute ruler may well stride about in an impressive uniform, live a life of wanton extravagence and be driven by crippling paranoia--this we know. But the true despot will deviate from such established norms. In delightful, eccentric fashion, a really masterful ruler will astound us with the very irrationality of his excesses."

Other suggestions?