"should just pen a love letter in her curlicue language to SP, and see if the latter can understand word one. Couldn't finish this, too ridiculous, enough to make one sick."

You people have just spent weeks devoting every waking electron to flaming Palin for her presumed lack of erudition. But Paglia uses too many of them thar big words for you. Liberals, trying to have it both ways once again.

@Gemimail:

"I have read every letter posted on this article and am completely flabbergasted. Most of the writers seem to have had good educations and can write a coherent sentence so what excuse do you have for your intolerance? Many of you say that Camille should be banned from this site and then attack her because she dares to question the way you think. "

Actually, this is typical. I first crossed paths with this tribe circa 1968, at University of California, when these were the people who grabbed the mike at peace rallies as they used the cause of the moment as an excuse to shout everyone else down with their Maoist techniques.

In their hearts, it's still 1968. The Sixties Maoists still relentlessly poison every issue they touch. Remember this when they try to strip the credentials of scientists who disagree with their interpretation of weather data. Remember this when you deviate in the slightest from their interpretation of feminism.

The problem is not, as in 1932, that the economy has run out of money to build the infrastructure the country needs. Consider just the energy issue: there is vast private capital available to build power plants and transmission lines without any need for governments to spend money they no longer have. T. Boone Pickens wants to sink his own oil-gotten billions into wind farms. Areva, the giant French utility, offers to import capital to put our nuclear program back on track. This should be a golden age for energy fanatics, and it matters not which energy technology you're fanatic about. If you know good places to put solar collectors or geothermal fields or gas wells, the capital is waiting for you.

The problem is that our legal system favors fanatics against, while impeding fanatics for any energy technology. What Washing needs to do to fix this is not to spend money it no longer has, but to fix the legal system. It should be as easy as possible to build energy systems, and as difficult as possible to oppose them. If there's going to be an economy again one day we need to replace the precautionary principle with...let's call it the adventure principle.

"McCain, she says, has a smallish nose and large, flared nostrils. The details of the Republican presidential nominee's schnoz tell Rosetree that McCain is “a relatively big spender” and “adventurous” with money. The rough texture of his nose tip and the slight angle toward the right suggest he’s not likely to change his spendthrift ways anytime soon."

...Or would Earth Liberation Front be too pissed off that their leader didn't get the post?

"the xxAA really wants to get 100% real time absolute control of everything. They want to attach a little parking meter to everything that plays any form of media. They want to ban internet media. They want to control and meter TiVO. They want to outlaw MP3 players that aren't locked with DRM and so on. "

...but in the incoming administration, Joe Biden will be primary water carrier for the entertainment industry as it consolidates its ownership of the world. Folks, bend over, place your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye.

"I was expecting something inciteful..."

JUdging by all the angry letters, that it certainly was. What the article lacked, though, was insight.

These sites are great for all the geeks who hate Ticketmaster almost as much as they hate the the RIAA. But how would this play in those states where Ticketmaster owns the legislature and private ticket sales are illegal? If New York State pursues smokers across state lines, what are they going to do to those mustache-twirling "ticket scalpers" ?

@GorillaTom

"Having said that,however,I have to say that discussing anything about Trig is out of bounds. "

...one of which is that no 'minority' public figure - as broadly defined by the Rules - can be permitted to take non-liberal stands. Sarah Palin eats meat, bears live babies, believes in Christ, has sex with men, and probably never even attended Vassar. For such violations of everything that Salon stands for, every aspect of her must be trashed right down to the mitochondrial level.

You're also forgetting that today's kids are infinitely fragile. When I was Trig's age, I was carried by a working mother through the smoldering ashes of the Blitz. Gaia forbid that any of today's pampered prices walk to soccer practice by himself.

I'm glad that Palin's thoughts on rape have finally gotten liberals fired up on the crime issue.

My own belief is that the first person to be aborted in this situation should be the rapist.

"State and local government can no more give up drug law enforcement than they can suddenly stop collecting taxes. All of you need to crawl out from your Macbooks and go down to any county courthouse in the US for a day. Half the charges are driving infractions and the other half are low level drug busts. Maybe one out 40 is a bona fide dangerous crime."

For once, I'm in agreement. Here in Yavapai County, AZ, we're debating a sales tax increase to add jail capacity. What fills the lockups here is not violence, but minor drug offenses. County government reaps a fortune catching local drywallers for pot, then reaps another fortune soaking the taxpayers for more space to warehouse them.

So far as I'm concerned, addiction is its own punishment. In this open carry state, if they commit real crimes against us, we get to shoot them. Otherwise the authorities should leave them alone and let Darwin sort 'em out.