Oh Ann Coulter, you so crazy!

Thank goodness her name is spelled differently than mine (Anne), otherwise, I would feel dirty. Well not really, but I'm feeling bitchy in my late night, caffeinated tea induced euphoria. But just in case I do start to feel dirty that my first name even sounds like this swamp witch, I'll call her ACoulter.

I'll get to the first problem with ACoulter in a second. (Hah! How 'bout that...I'll get to the first in a second...)

But the second problem with ACoulter is that her domain name is "anncoulter.org", but her web site title is "anncoulter.com". How frickety slick is that?

Anyhow, ACoulter is spewing forth about Richard Clarke. She calls him a chair warmer. She spends most of her time not answering to Clarke's more important criticisms of Bush, but on the one line referring to Condi as not knowing who the Al Qaeda was when he mentioned it to her. She uses that to launch into some slippery slope of suggesting that Clarke is a racist, womanhating paper pusher.

Nice work, ACoulter. You certainly are raising the bar for women in journalism. Your skills of analysis and argumentation are unparallelled in this reality.

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While driving to work, I was listening to Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam".

It starts out funny, and then it turns into a scathing commentary on Civil Rights, all done with a sing-songy tune that sounds like a musical. She herself says, "This song is from a musical that hasn't yet been written."

Good stuff.

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Flibbety floo.

I'm getting a sore throat.

I'm feeling like making some greek style chicken breasts with tsatsiki sauce, however, so clearly I'm not on my deathbed, yet.

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Here's an article from today's opinion section of Salon.com

Grand old profiteering
Conservatives accuse Richard Clarke of using 9/11 revelations to peddle his book, but plenty of Republicans are cashing in on the war on terror.

By Joe Conason

March 30, 2004 | While Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist quickly backed away from the most damaging assertions he made during his floor tirade against Richard Clarke Friday, admitting that he had no evidence of contradictions in the former counterterror chief's sworn testimony, he stuck to his depiction of Clarke as a rapacious ex-staffer looking to cash in on his past public service.

"I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on Sept. 11, 2001," said the Senate majority leader solemnly. In fact, what really disturbs Frist and other Clarke critics is the prospect of yet another bestseller that portrays the Bush White House in an unflattering light. Because they have no problem with profiteering, from Washington to Baghdad, when the business at hand suits their own partisan or pecuniary purposes.

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