I was posed the following question tonight at a party: what happens if you send a werewolf to the moon? Is he always a wolf? Only if he's on the light side? Only when there's a full Earth? It's really quite a serious philosophical dilemma.

(The party, by the way, was described to me as a "typical college stoner party" by someone who knows about such things. Lots of pot, an 18-year-old crasher, a keg of Guinness which someone was drinking directly from the tap, etc. We stayed for about 20 minutes.)