I could deal with either Obama, Clinton, Edwards or Biden getting the ticket. In a perfect world Gore would be running but there is not one of the actual choices that I simply couldn't live with. Each one of them has their strengths and weaknesess but overall we actually have several qualified and strong leaders with the chance of a great ticket.

The Republican on the other hand are scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've got nothing religious wingnuts, second rate hucksters and third rate ah-shucksters.

If we can somehow get the press to pull their thumbs out of their asses and report on the real issues and then get rid of the voting fraud we can lick those vacuous morons easily.

Ok, so maybe that's a tall order. Nevertheless, I think we've got it.

Obama/Edwards has a nice ring to it. I may just print up the bumper stickers now!

"Bill Richardson, governor of arid New Mexico, ... told the Las Vegas Sun that Northern states need to start sharing their water: "I want a national water policy."

This has been a disaster in the making ever since the words "go west" were uttered. When you look at a place like Las Vegas with it's fountains, pools and man made lakes--it boggles the mind. You can't help but ask, "what the hell were they thinking?" I think the answer is that they weren't. Places like Pheonix, Tucson, Salt Lake, L.A. and San Deigo -just to name a few- are running on empty. The Colorado river is as partitioned as it can get and the ground table is sinking even further. Ya just can't get blood out of a turnup and somethings gotta give!

Thank goodness we have a neighbor to the north with a 3000 mile unprotected border that is the only country in the world without a water problem.

Here Canada, Canada, Canada!

Ah, that time of the month again when we are treated to the preening bloviations of Camille Paglia. This time we get a real treat; Paglia delivers a trenchant analysis of Hillary Clinton’s warped psyche. Seriously Camille, what blunt 19th century tools did you use to extract that claptrap?

I know that I’ve repeatedly pleaded with Salon’s editors to replace Paglia with a writer that Solon’s readership doesn’t find so pretentious and full of crap. But I now think I know why my pleading has fallen of deaf ears. I forgot to say please.

Let me now correct that slight.

Please, Joan, Gary, anyone with Camille’s number in their rolodex and the cahones to make the call. Give that jaded harpy the axe! If not for me, do it for the hundreds of other premium subscribers who have told you the same thing month after month.

I apologize for saying 'hundreds' above. I meant thousands.

Thanks for the Molly Ivins quote about Paglia. Ivins summed her up perfectly.

I think that if you are going to write a book about fascism and liberalism it’s probably a good idea to start out with a basic knowledge of what those two things are. It’s apparent from Goldberg’s comments that he hadn’t done his homework on either topic. He state in the interview that, “my definition of fascism I get in large chunks from Eric Voegelin”. I don’t know much about Voegelin but if were writing a book on fascism I would have read a little bit more broadly.

As for Alex Koppleman, he must think that being an objective journalist means letting half-baked hucksters like Goldberg prattle on completely unchallenged. I get the impression that Koppelman himself wasn’t really prepared to take Goldberg on so he just let him spew for four pages unchecked. Had Koppelman read someone like Michael Lind—who has written extensively on the subject—he would have been able challenge Goldberg’s asinine thesis instead of lobbing him softball questions and nodding his head thoughtfully?

Now for Salon’s spanking. This book is completely unworthy of a feature article for Salon. If you’re trying to be contrarian there are plenty of conservative books out there that are fodder for serious though. This is not one of them. And occasionally there are books out that you really CAN judge by their cover. This is one of them.