As he mentioned the other day, Mitt Romney graduated at the top of his class at BYU with a degree in English. Yet his favorite novel is the L. Ron Hubbard potboiler Battlefield Earth. Hmm. Romney spent at least two years studying the vast canon of Western literature and his favorite book is third-rate sci-fi pulp from the author of Dianetics? Not Stendhal? Faulkner? Shakespeare? Why isn't this a campaign issue?