I can't say I've got a gynecological range of expertise, but I have seen a fair number of hoohahs, and have always, quite naturally, had a Will Rogers attitude with regard to their aesthetics: never met one I didn't like. Is there some established canon of pussy perfection that I have been ignorant of all these years ? Should I be fussier? Is there a vaginal flaws checklist that I can consult to be a more informed critic?

If she's really not worth analyzing, why analyze the analyses??

On the Pelosi issue, Sean Hannity did not hesitate to start up the spin cycle on his Yes Mr. President!! machine. On his radio talk show yesterday he argued passionately and at enormous length, indignantly saying that by objecting to the simultanous announcement and troop movement, she was breaking the Democrat's promise of civility and bi-partisanship, and doing so hypocritically to boot.

This was warm-up to the charge that Pelosi was indirectly accusing Bush of putting troops into harm's way in order to reap a political advantage, continuing to "if she were really sincere about stopping the war she'd vote to deny funding." It was a classic heads-Bush-is-right, tails Pelosi is wrong argument, and the scary thing is his faithful couldn't see it as anything but brilliant.

The great thing about minor league baseball is going out to the park. All the aggravations and irritations of MLB - having dollars singleminded vacuumed out of your pockets by an industrial-strength extractor -- are blessedly missing. Park your car for next to nothing by the gate. Cheap tickets, cheap eats. Find a place to spread out in the stands. Let the kids join the other kids hanging out instead of being scowled at if they leave their seats. Even lean over and say a few words to the (excellent) players on the field, who are blessedly free of attitude and glad to be playing the game. It's like going back into a another, simpler world. Sure, check it out on the tube, but it is so, so much better in person - and that isn't true, unless you're loaded with bucks, for a game in the majors.

"The program for the very first virus was written by Frederick B. Cohen, a student

in a USC computer security class taught by professor Leonard M. Adleman.

Cohen first demonstrated a working virus publicly on Nov. 11, 1983, in Adleman's

classroom. The inspiration had come to him a week earlier, on Nov. 4, while the

professor was lecturing...."

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/465.html

Adleman, a Turing prizewinner, subsequently became famous for demonstrating that DNA could be used as a computing medium.

I thought my outrage circuits had burned out long ago, but this has revived them. One billion barely-accounted-for dollars a year to buy above-the-law hired killers who have taken over what was a traditional responsibility of the USCM and dragged the name and reputation of the US State Department into the toilet. How can even flagwaving GOP hardliners sign on to approve years of abuses so egregious that an iraqi government totally dependent on our power demands action. Waxman is a tireless investigator but Condi Rice has to put on national TV and explain why she has done nothing but sign blank checks. I can't be the only person who feels this way - am I?

This isn't a theoretical concern: it's been the problem with mercenaries for as long as they've been in business. Machiavelli talked about it at length. We have a heavily armed private organization deeply infiltrated into the highest levels of government for sale. Does this really raise no alarms.

Error admission: in my previous note I gave $1 billion as Blackwater's yearly gobble. The cumulative total since 2004 approaches but does not reach that figure. But will soon.

I was stopped short in the interview when I read this:

"I don't say that contemporary liberalism is the direct heir of Nazism or Italian fascism. I say it's informed by it. It's like its grandniece. It's related, they're in the same family, they share a lot of genetic traits, but they're not the same thing."

This is dealing a card game in which all the cards are wild. It's hard to come up with any political tendency from anywhere on the planet where a radio signal reaches that's not "informed" by Nazism or Italian fasciam in some way or other. You can bring up any politician working today from extreme left to right and find a cluster of characteristics that you can compare to something Mussolini or Hitler or Franco talked about or did at some point or other. Ronald Reagan was big on tradition and imposing national power on air traffic controllers: Sieg Heil.

The book is a ridiculous exercise in intellectual cherry picking, with a single, stupid bottom line: to be able to point to liberals (and liberals alone) and say "fascist!" in addition to the ever-popular "socialist." I'd like to say the good news is, with this kind of enemy, liberals don't need friends.