I have an alternative view of criminal prosecution for the coven of self-confessed torturers in the Bush crime syndicate. The way I see it, the Obama administration has a choice to accept the inconvenient responsibility of prosecuting Bush, Chaney, Rice and Rumsfeld, et al or face the humiliation of having those charges forced upon America by the World Court in den Haag.

This was not bad politics, crimes against international law were committed with an insulting sense of impunity. They will be prosecuted. This is a test of President Obama's realism as well as his sense of responsibility for restoring the rule of law. What we won't do for ourselves will be done to us. Better to do the right thing, while it's still our move, than to be treated like a rogue-state that lacks the capacity to punish its own criminals. We'll see...

Should it be surprising to anyone that Bettie Page wanted to be remembered for what she was best at. A bright but ordinary teacher, secretary, housewife - she was a world-class model. Not only because she was attractive --- she was hardly unique in that - but because her up-beat attitude radiated through the camera to the viewer. She made it obvious that she was having fun doing it. Bettie Page was, and remains, a super-star, in a genre that Kate Harding has difficulty facing 50 years later.

The idea that Bettie Page's choice is to be understood in the light of a paucity of options at that time, casts harsh judgement on a women who makes a similar choice in 2008. Since there must be, at minimum. 10,000 times the number of women choosing erotic employment options today, despite the availability of myriad career paths, I find Harding's underlying attitude - "She couldn't possibly have been doing this because she wanted to." - priggish, curiously judgmental and profoundly anti-woman. If feminism is at root humanism, liberation from sexist attitudes must include liberation from the presumption of victimization that some women place on erotic employment, in the diluted name of "feminism."

Sarah Palin is just demonstrating what happens when you start a campaign with the bottom of the class. But, lest we forget, I will repeat the landmark quotation from Mark Twain once again: " He's got the fools in town on his side. That's a majority in any town." Register your friends and your kid's friends to vote. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature, should be gotten to the polls, even if we have to drive them. The fact that this race is in question with these two bozos advocating policies that dropped the strongest economy in human history into a snake pit, is practically beyond comprehension.

Still cheerleading for bad economic policies and worse wars, these twin bimbos remain standing only because of the bigotry and backwardness inbred into the American heartland. If a brilliant and profoundly decent candidate, like Senator Obama, can't get a theft-proof majority in the midst of this Republican-concocted-crisis, America is toast. If McBush & George Bush in drag prevail, all that would be left for me to do, would be to nominate America for the 2008 Darwin Award... oh yea, and buy gold. Didn't the Doors have a big hit song about that? Remember: "This is the end..."

She's only a backward, ignorant idiot, with a bit of a vicious edge; McCain nominated her. All that's left to do --- other than register every potential voter --- is to watch this ignorant twit flop around like a tuna on the deck, spraying lies all over. If you think she's sickening, listen to the people who think she's smart, clever and qualified to be President of the United States. "Oh, the President... yea... what does he do? I've only been at this for 5 weeks... before that they kept me in a locked closet reading oh, you know... all those newspapers and journals that have names... that I don't remember."

Sarah Palin is really George Bush in drag... Is that lipstick on a Bush?