I really think all those specialty Monopoly games are a bit much, but I think it's really cool that someone made a Classic Video Game Monopoly.

I'd like to start with a disclaimer. I'm not making light of this situation. But, I am making light of one aspect of the media's coverage.

Right now, an armed adult is holding hostages and making bomb threats in a Colorado school. Coverage has been scant, and there are a few details I'd really like to know:

• What kind of music does he like to listen to?
• What kind of clothes is he wearing? Does he have a fondness for hawaiian shirts? Backwards baseball caps?
• What games does he play in his spare time? I bet he's one of those fantasy football fans, isn't he?
• Does he have a MySpace page? Livejournal? Rushlimbaugh.com membership?

I've developed a fondness for licorice candies in recent years. It started out with me just being cute, black-colored candy being the next step in making my life increasingly monochromatic. But I started to realize just how much I love the taste of licorice — call me weird, but I do. Twizzlers, Good & Plenty, black jelly beans…I even found black jelly bears…mmmm.

But in order to make these candies blacker-than-black, the candy companies load them up with dark green dye. Well, this dye doesn't get digested and I poop green the morning after. It's…disturbing.

Does anyone know of any good licorice candies besides Good & Plenty that don't have this heavy concentration of articifical "black" dye?