The winners of this year's Pultizer Prizes were announced today, and L.A. Times, which nabbed two last year, was completely shut-out.

Perhaps just a surprisingly, in the fiction run-off, Aussie Geraldine Brooks's "March" startled industry-types by eliminating E.L. Doctorow's "The March," widely considered the favorite.

Wagged one motion picture lit agent, "It's the Florida election in West Palm Beach all over again."

Geraldine Brooks = The new Pat Buchanan?

Hmm...