I was just getting together a box of acorns to mail to him for his recount campiagn. The acorns would have come in useful: scatter some on the floor, walk on them in your bare feet, and yell "Ouch! It's all ACORN's fault!" Or put them under the hood of somebody's car and when they catch fire, blame it on ACORN. The possibilities are endless!

That's "heads should roll." Damned homonyms!

Yes, I wonder how the Fox news and Newscorp bigwigs would react to "So, how do feel about Glenn Beck's position that the Republican party deserves to be killed off?"

Does this mean we won't be treated to any more reports of Republicans caught with their pants down who are then identified as " -- D"? No more "Larry Craig, D-Idaho" and "Representative Bob Allen, D-Titusville" and "Congresman Mark Foley, D-Florida"? Darn.......

Of course, those were ALL honest mistakes, right????

Thank you for a reminder of why I don't miss the business of being an inkstained wretch - the editors who, sitting behind a desk and not getting out in public - come up with hackneyed ideas and send out a hapless reporter with orders to confirm their conjecture, or else be accused of having "a bad attitude."

I actually loved a lot of the newspaper work I did - it was the editors I hated.

The one where he used the word "bullshit" on the grounds that political ads can't be censored by the network stuffed shirts? This, I admit, sounds like a creative and fun end-run around that. At least it's different from the usual voice-of-doom ads that make me reach for the Mute. Oh, you know, the ones that have a deep voice gravely saying (and this excellent example is from Dave Barry) something to the effect of "My opponent would have you believe he's never tasted human flesh. Don't be fooled!"

"Someday, a few hundred years from now, Americans (if there are any) might think we were a barbaric people for being entertained watching football players knock the hell out of each other..."

Actually, I think that now. I'm amazed to find I was in agreement with Will Whatzizname, the wimpy little Washington Post columnist, on that. And, as George Carlin said, if people want to have football games, it would be much more entertaining if they left the injured players on the field for the remaindeer of the game.

OK, backl to the topic at hand now!

People in the northeast and in the west-coast megacities can be awfully snactimonious. But just as I was getting started, Glockenspiel showed up foaming at the mouth about Muslims and post-menopausal women and a host of things that make him lose his grip, and I lost my train of thought.

Maybe I should mail him a box of acorns. That way he'll al;ways have something to blame his misfortunes on. "Ow, I stepped on something hard in my bare feet! It was that Acorn!"

When you talk about President Barack Obama "going back to Kenya," did you really mean Kihei, which is in Maui County, or did you mean Kekaha, which is near Kauai?

Maybe you meant Kaneohe, which is in Honolulu County.

If more people knew what ACORN is or what it is not, these attacks would sound even more ridiculous than they do! The biggest help to the paranoid Republicans is that most people go about their daily lives knowing as little about ACORN as they do about, say, PNAC, the C Street House, the American Enterprise Institute or any number of secretive organizations that have a hell of a lot more impact than a raggle-taggle handful of people registering po' folks to vote.

AS far as indeopedent voters and Sarah Palin, I had to admit I was startled when I got an e-mail from an old friend out in the Midwest asking me "What do you think of Sarah Palin?" I knew my friend had skewed very conservative after 9/11 - a security mom - so her next sentence caught me off guard: "I think she is a disgrace to women!"

My wife and I watched the vice presidential candidate debate, with Sarah wink-wink-wink you-bethcha'ing her way to avoiding answers. Asked about mortgage foreclosures, she said the answer was to drill for oil. Actually, the thing that really startled me was when Joe Biden talked about the death of his first wife and Sarah Palin, in a happy voice, chirped that "Her reward's in Heaven!" Gee, real sensitive.

Speaking of aides: After her self-pity book, how much luck do you think she'll ever have recruiting talent for a political campaign? I don't think she'll really run, though - she'll be like Newt Gingrich, craving attention with "I might run! I just might possibly run!"

He may not have meant that Sarah can't talk about issues in an intelligent way. But it sure is one hell of a Freudian slip.

Maybe this explains an anti-cyclist column that ran a few years ago in Scaife's Pittsburgh paper (a western Pennsylvania version of the Washington Times, but without the mass weddings).

I also find it interesting that right-wingers rail about liberals being weak and sissy, and yet sneer at people who pursue physical fitness. And I notice that the write talks about the plight of the poor poor Manhattanites beset by bicyclists, while other right-wingers such as Sarah Palin regard those same people as not part of "the real America."