Hoffman is quite unique. I saw film clips of him during his campaign that lead me to believe that compared to him, Sarah Palin is a Rhodes Scholar.

Palin staggered through five college transfers in five years and three states to get a degree in reading teleprompters. That included her returning to Alaska and enrolling in a third rate community college in what I would assume was an effort to get her grades up in order to be readmitted to a second rate university.

She has never shown the slightest evidence of having a brain. She is indisputably lazy and incurious, but she hasn't had the sense to surround herself with anyone with an actual cue. She picked her top appointees from the ranks of her friends, neighbors, church members and high school buddies. She got lucky with a few, but most are no less dumb than she is.

This is a person who not only doesn't "believe" in anthropogenic global warming, but believes that the world is less than 7,000 years old, and that men walked with dinosaurs.

She's also a prodigious liar. She's too dumb to know that when she lies, many people whom are aware of truth become a liability to her image.

Much of her book was devoted to settling scores with a lightweight interviewer, Katie Couric, who exposed her for the dunce she was. She characterized her as "badgering."

Here's a bit of the transcript with Couric's first interview on "60 Minutes." Judge for yourself how tough an interviewer she is:

Katie Couric asked if Condi Rice regretted using her personal credibility to sell the Iraq War, given the fact that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Condi replied:

"Do I wish the intelligence had been better? Absolutely. I have wished every day since we learned. The idea that somehow because the intelligence was wrong, we were misleading the American people, I really resent that. I really resent it. I resent it, because the administration was using the best available intelligence. And so everybody thought that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He'd used them, for goodness' sake."

Okay. So that's not only a bald faced lie, but it is a lie that lies at the core of the criminal adventure that has taken the lives of 4,400 young American men and women, that has cost the lives of a million Iraqis, turned 20% of the population into refugees, and will cost at least $3 billion.

So what did Couric do? She "left it there." This was on "60 Minutes," not Larry King Live, for pete's sake. She should have ripped her throat out. Couric is a softball pitcher, but those tosses caused Sarah to go down swinging.

Sarah Palin's ghost written nonsense should be confined to the fiction shelves. It's an effort to justify her bizarre behavior and an attempt at self aggrandizement, but I don't think any fact checker has been within a mile of this piece of crap.

She did get a $1.25 million advance on it, however, once again proving H.L. Menken's observation: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.

I could have done a better job for $50.

Here's what I would have proved.

She's a convicted criminal (ah, the national media didn't tell you that, did they?).

She's a liar. She led off with one of the biggest, the "Bridge to Nowhere" claim.

She's a scientific illiterate. She believes that men walked with dinosaurs and the world is less than 7,000 years old.

She believes in witches too.

In the book, she claims she was a "voracious reader" while growing up.

There's actually little evidence she's ever read a book.

She's totally unethical. She tried to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper, wholly without grounds, then had her staffers lie about that.

She was regularly in polar opposition to the large Republican majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

She staggered through five changes of college in three states in five years before she finally got a degree in teleprompter reading.

And, last but not least by a long shot, for those who believe that she's qualified solely on the basis of her looks, she has a big ass. She's always had a big ass and had a hell of a time sutffing it into a bathing suit, back when she was playing the flute in beauty contests. I realize that there's a constituency out there that would vote for big asses, but she won't get mine.

A look at either Orly Taitz's or James David Manning's websites will serve to confirm the bankruptcy of Reagan's policy of deinstitutionalizaton of the severely mentally ill.

But they must have contributors. I can't imagine that Manning's church attendees support his lifestyle. How much can a tinfoil hat wearer afford out of an SSI check, after all? No one who isn't equally nuts would sit through his incredibly vulgar diatribes. This guy is so out of control, he's banned from posting new material on YouTube.

Same with Taitz.

I figured that we could be worse off. After all, they might both be armed like Scott Roeder. But driving 100 mph is pretty lethal in itself.

Someone is supporting both of these lunatics. Richard Mellon Scaife?

They serve a purpose, after all, however ignoble.