Be still, my heart! I wait with breathless anticipation the handiwork of my Progressive pals in the campaign-commercial business. The prospects are boundless; the schadenfreude is building!

Just wait until our Southern-fried brethren see the campaign ad featuring Rudy Guiliani, in Marilyn Monroe drag, kissing Donald Trump. Tagline: "With Rudy in drag, we could have a President and First lady all rolled into one!" I visualize the commercial with Rudy, proudly marching at the head (no pun intended) of gay-pride parades in the Big Apple. Tagline:"Rudy isn't just happy to be your President, he's positively gay about it!" Rudy will be shown dissing people with his trademark style: venal vindictiveness. Alabamians, et al, just LOVE that kind of attitude from a balding, lisping, yankee in a dress!

As for Mitt Romney, his flip-flops on social issues are legion: he has supported gay rights and abortion rights, among other non-Religious-Right-acceptable issues, in his run for Governor of Massachusetts. They're on-tape and just ready to be juxtaposed with a split-screen of his current Religious Right-friendly positions. Couple that with his misuse of the LDS Church to raise campaign money, and this empty $4,000 suit is a disaster-in-waiting. Vacuous verbosity personified.

Ah, yes. This year's crop of crap from the Republican candidates is eclipsed only by the shots of each of them shown cheek-to-jowl with Dubya. Talk about the tarbaby of politics!

This...is...going...to...be...fun!!!

As Grandma used to say about any movie/stage-play/restaurant reviewer's work: "Opinions are like a**-holes; everybody has one and they all smell the same."

Seeing others, on-screen, as three-dimensional, real people rather than one-dimensional cartoons is preferable, right?. However, if motion pictures such as "I Now Pronounce..." manage to achieve even a few hits among the many misses, that is progress, right?

I understand the film-maker's dilemma: produce a socially-conscious motion picture that makes the case for tolerence and the Conservatives will howl and boycott the film. Make a farce that enforces stereotypes and progressives will howl and boycott the film. Basically, they're in a no-win situation.

However, any progress in film-making on the issue of same-sex marriage can be the camel's nose under the tent; hopefully, the rest of the camel will follow shortly.

Right?

If this were Alabama, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Around the South, marrying a blood-relative is considered de rigeur, so, diddling a stepson wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

As for knowing the right thing to do sexually, they don't have SexEd in Southern schools: that what cousins are for.

From the misuse of the Department of Commerce as a vassaldom of Republican politics to the petty-chastisement of Senator Clinton by the Pentagon's Mr. Edelman, Mr. Bush's White House continues to operate without any rules of propriety, honor or legality. Their rules seem to be NO rules!

I see that Judicial Watch has filed some kind of lawsuit seeking to access First Lady Hillary Clinton's "records". Now, the Pentagon has joined in singling her out for a propagandistic dissing.

Is sure sounds like the Right is terrified of Hillary's candidacy and is lashing out with whatever it can muster. Balanced against the light-weights they have for '08, they're damned right to be terrified of Hillary's candidacy! She is a formidable candidate.

We already HAVE a world without humanity; it's called the Republican Party.

I keep seeing the phrase in print that "Fred Thompson is a new face". I must disagree.

Fred Thompson's face looks as if it has worn out three bodies.

The late President Gerald Ford...the last Republican for whom I had ANY respect...probably said it best on 9 August, 1974, right after he took the oath of office. Referring to the Nixonian bastardocracy that had just ended, he said in his remarks: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

I hope that Hillary Clinton, on 20 January, 2009, upon taking the oath of office as the 44th President of these United States of America, repeats that salient phrase when referring to George W. Bush: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1951 by the states, states that a person may only serve two terms as President; I'd like to propose another Constitutional amendment that prohibits anyone named Bush, surname or maiden name, from EVER serving again...at all!