Tell me that this does not make your heart beat a little faster.

Half a dozen doctored "mug shots" of President Bush and other administration officials are decking a hall of the New York Public Library's main Fifth Ave. branch, drawing grins and gripes.

"It's hysterical," Bennett Graff of New Haven said after studying the head shots and adjoining profiles of a particularly befuddled-looking Bush and a finger-wagging Vice President Cheney. "It's kind of bold, to say the least."

I can only hope that this is simply the foreshadowing of events that are yet to come.

Only then will our country really start to heal.