just maybe, during her studies at Messiah College and Regent University little Miss Fundie overlooked the scripture that directs: ". . . and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you . . ." (I Peter 3:15, KJV)

Lawrence Walsh caused Caspar Weinberger to be indicted during the week before the 1992 presidential election? The Rethuglicans squealed like stuck pigs.

Senator Brownback deserves kudos for candor for acknowledging the litmus test he would impose. The real target of this century's Junior Anti-Sex League, however, is recreational sex itself.

Griswold v. Connecticut begat Roe v. Wade. To see the Rethuglican candidates squirm like worms on a hot brick, ask which candidates favor returning to state governments the issue of whether the use of contraception should be criminalized.

on Islamic terrorism is a shibboleth signaling to the blastocystophiles that those who bomb women's clinics and assassinate doctors are not a priority--notwithstanding that these crazies kill American citizens and destroy buildings, all on American soil.

The irony is that most of those on Eric Rudolph's side of the culture war live in parts of the country where damn yankee is not two words.

that someone in the Bush/Fudd administration read the House Judiciary Committee's 1974 Articles of Impeachment of President Nixon and mistook it for an operations manual?

How can that be? Republicans are all about control of other people's sex lives. With the possible exception of Giuliani, is there any candidate less sex-inspiring than Hillary Clinton?

"The first black racer in NASCAR got some press for being the first. It happens."

How many people can name the first black racer in NASCAR without consulting Google?

Rush Bimbo's show has been syndicated nationally, the political figures whom he has targeted for invective most frequently probably have been Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. Is it coincidence that each one is a fat guy who doesn't have trouble getting laid? Remember Rush blathering about the "arousal gap" between women who supported Clinton and the rest of the electorate? Remember the parody song which featured a Kennedy imitator singing "I'm a Philanderer" to the tune of a song by Dion and the Belmonts?

Has there ever been anyone nearly so envious because no twentysomething woman wanted to play with his cigar?

Traditionally, more highly educated voters have tended to vote Republican. More recently, Democrats may have gained the edge among those in academia and those with the highest levels of education.

While I have not researched the topic, I suspect that most of those with undergraduate degrees vote Republican, and most with post-graduate degrees vote Democratic.

Traditionally, those with only a grade school education, when they vote at all, have tended Democratic.

"If [Rove] is prosecuted before the end of Bush's term, he will just be pardoned. If he is not prosecuted before the end of Bush's term, he may take advantage of the innate ineptitude of Democrats, get another Republican elected president, and just be pardoned."

What makes anyone think that His Accidency would wait until prosecution is instituted to pardon Rove or any other of the Administration cast of buffoons? President Ford didn't wait before pardoning Prick Nixon.

I fully expect that, before he leaves office, the Doofus-in-Chief will issue blanket pardons to dozens of Administration officials, regardless of whether any one of them has been charged.

Under those circumstances, Congress would still have one remedy available. Article I, § 3 of the Constitution states that "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States". An official's departure from office, whether by expiration of his term or otherwise, would not prevent Congress from impeaching in order to disqualify the malefactor from holding federal office in the future.

If God had intended for humans to show their bodies, wouldn't He have created Adam and Eve naked?

Oh, He did? And they were not ashamed?

My bad.

about Senator Thompson that I haven't seen discussed in the media is his church's position on his remarriage.

Fred Thompson claims membership in the Church of Christ, a fundamentalist body whose doctrine generally forbids divorced members from remarrying. (Some, but not all, members thereof make an exception when the divorce was based on the other spouse's adultery.) Sen. Thompson's second marriage reportedly occurred in the United Church of Christ, a very different (and very liberal) Protestant denomination.

Has anyone reported on whether Sen. Thompson's local congregation (each local church of Christ is autonomous) has inquired into the circumstances of Thompson's 1985 divorce from his first wife and, if so, whether he is in good standing since his remarriage?

that Justice Scalia continues to go duck hunting with Vice-President Fudd and that, should the Veep's pellets find their mark, the Senate does to any successor's nomination what it did to Abe Fortas in 1968.

for Sen. Craig's guilty plea? Even if one assumes that Craig was in search of and fully intended to consummate something more intimate than a toe-tapping good time, what facts indicate that his conduct had ripened into a completed crime, or for that matter even an attempt, at the time of his arrest?

Did Mr. Craig voluntarily, intelligently and knowingly waive his right to counsel prior to the court's acceptance of his plea? If not, his conviction may be void and subject to collateral attack.

Larry Craig pled guilty to a crime for which he should have never been charged; David Vitter admitted to "serious sin" which likely constituted criminal conduct after he had been linked to escort services in Washington and New Orleans. Why does the Republican leadership regard Craig as more ignoble than Vitter?

One wonders what the reaction of is fellow Roman Catholic Republicans would ave been if Vitter had admitted using a condom during his whoremongering.