You should all be ashamed.

But you have no shame.

We'll see that when Afghan women go back to drinking lye to escape the Taliban and your faces are all nicely averted just like they are right now.

I will celebrate your defeat on abortion.

I no longer care about abortion.

NARAL is never getting another dime from me.

I will not support any cause that is supported by scum who are planning to turn their backs and let Afghan women go back to drinking lye as their only escape from Taliban rule.

There's more at stake in this war than money.

I hate Salon so fucking much.

I hope your publication dies.

You women-hating fucking bastards.

You want Afghan women to go back to drinking lye to escape the Taliban.

YOU WANT IT -- JUST ADMIT THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT

You heartless women-hating fucking bastards.

Or at least those are the only ones who matter at Salon.

Here is Sarah Palin in her RUNNING shorts, in a picture she took for a RUNNING magazine.

Is Sarah Palin an accomplished RUNNER?

Why yes indeedy, she certainly is.

First she ran FOR office, and then she ran FROM it.

Maybe that point is just over her head, or she's found it better to pretend that it is, at least.

What kind of an idiot political candidate signs a model release for photographs without paying close attention to how and where those photos are legally allowed to be used?

That's not someone who is qualified to be involved in negotiating treaties between nations.

ADMIT that this war has in fact done great things for Afghan women, even if it hasn't made the country absolutely uniform in the treatment of women.

ADMIT that Afghan women will be subjected to horrific violent oppression if we lose the war and Afghanistan is returned to Taliban rule.

ADMIT that the Taliban are vicious sociopaths who commit genocide and child rape and are incapable of running any country anywhere but straight into the ground.

ADMIT that even other Islamic extremist clerics, like for example the leading cleric for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, have denounced the Taliban treatment of women as neither a cultural nor an Islamic norm.

And then after having admitted all that, still make your argument for returning Afghan women to Taliban rule.

That is something I could respect.

That's not what you've done. What you've done is hypocritical and sleazy and makes Dick Cheney look like a better feminist than you are.

And now you have the nerve to complain about a modest, consensual photograph of shorts that was published after the model signed a legal release?

People must be snorting some awfully strong politics here if they buy into what you're selling.

I grew with domestic violence back before the police were willing do arrest the perpetrators. I know what a powerless woman really looks like.

I think you're an idiot to complain about a consensual photo of a woman in very modest shorts, so soon after writing off the lives of Afghan women and sentencing them to Taliban rule.

Let them drink lye, right? Tough cookies for Afghan women.

Now let's organize a protest march over those shorts!

I hate you enough right to spend the rest of my life disrupting any public claims you make to feminism.

Women's rights are human rights. You can't just write them off in the name of antiwar politics.

A woman's life matters just as much as a man's.

to be an Afghan woman.

I say she has a thick head, because it would have taken her five minutes on the Feminist Majority website to educate herself about the Taliban enough to realize that they cannot be written off as some creepy Afghan cultural norm.

And she has a hard heart, because she's willing to stand by and let Afghan women drink lye if it serves her so-called progressive politics.

A thick head and a hard heart are exactly what a person needs to become a callous political operator like Joan Walsh.

Are you planning to sit on your hands when Afghan women go back to drinking lye?

Is that your plan, Joan?

You won't be able to say anything in protest, because you've already taken a position of "Tough shit."

But hey, let's organize a protest march over those shorts!

That's so enraging, when women agree to be photographed in shorts, and sign releases allowing those same photos to be published, and then some publisher has the NERVE to publish them!

Let's call the UN and get the Human Rights Commission involved, because this is obviously a threat to the safety of women all over the world.

Afghan women were drinking LYE to escape the Taliban, and now women serve in the Afghan parliament.

And here you are, blowing your stack over shorts, after having written that we should just accept the Taliban as an Afghan cultural norm that we can't fight with guns.

You are a completely ludicrous person and a raging hypocrite and you're also intellectually lazy -- even worse than the mainstream media.

It would have taken you five minutes on the Feminist Majority website to find out that the Taliban are not an Afghan cultural norm.

But of course the Great Joan Walsh, political operator extraordinaire, can't be bothered to risk her political position over a few lousy facts.

This is all I have left to say to you:

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

It's about a lot more than a pair of stupid shorts.