There’s a “hoo-ha” brewing in the underground these days, and we all know that every hoo-ha is worth looking into. The Post and the New York Times are both reporting about a smackdown by those elitist Washington intellectuals in an ad campaign that has Nora Roberts ripping off her bodice in rage.

The Greater Washington Initiative didn’t know the passion that would embroil them when they hung their enormous advertisements from Metro station walls. On the side labeled “Greater Washington Subway Reading,” a raven-haired man holds a copy of Plato’s Republic with his strong, weathered fingers, while his counterpart on the other half weakly holds “Average Subway Reading,” a romance novel titled Abandon.

An audible gasp was heard from enraged romance bibliophiles everywhere as they shook their fists in vain at the injustice of it all. Ms. Roberts’ angrily tossed her auburn locks over her shoulder as she noted in the Times that 50% of fiction sales are romance novels, making the ad offensive to the great number of Metro riders who enjoy getting aroused on mass transit. Bosoms heaved mightily at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, where the perky bloggers adjusted their smart-person glasses and vowed never to expand into the D.C. area.

We ask you, dear readers, what do you make of the ad? Did it make you angrier than that time daddy took away your beloved wild horse and half your inheritance because you made off with his darkly handsome sworn enemy? Or did you chuckle deeply as you tapped your pipe clean and dog-earred another page in your worn copy of Leviathan?

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