The Catholic bishops - you know, those old unmarried men who wear dresses and big hats and who have spent every moment of their lives from adolescence on without a female presence - are readying warfare against Barak Obama for his pro-choice stance.

This just makes me all the more sure that my tinhat theory isn't all that tinhattish. It's my belief that the GOP deliberately threw this election (that's why so many conservative columnists came out against Palin or in favor of Obama) because they do not want to have the White House during a time when crucial appointments are going to be made to the Supreme Court. The Republicans DO NOT WANT Roe v Wade overthrown.

The GOP reaps hundreds of millions in donations from anti-abortion donors. They get millions of single-issue voters into the voting booth every year to vote against pro-choice (i.e., Democratic) candidates. Overturn Roe v Wade and the GOP may never win another election.

So if the GOP deliberately threw the election so they wouldn't have to appoint anti-abortion judges to the courts, what will they do while waiting til 2012? They will make life miserable for the Democratic president, firing up the culture wars tenfold using religious issues. They will get every preacher, every priest, every bishop, every rabbi, every Mormon, every evangelical, every Catholic, every Hasid on their side that they can find to make noise and bring court cases for the next 4 years. Obama is going to be under fire from religions every minute of the day. The wingnuts and Faux will turn up the heat just like they did when Clinton was in office, when they used evangelical wingnut Ken Starr to persecute the wayward, sinner president.

Hold onto your hats (or your mitres), it's going to get rough.

I like to call him Chris because he HATES that.

Enajorac says "There is something deeply unpleasant about watching someone vent what appears to be personal spleen in such a public way".

I would agree, but I think it is vaguely pornographic as well as deeply unpleasant. There's just something so squicky that it makes me go "Ew!" when Hitchens gets his Hillary hate going. He sometimes squirms. I expect him to start panting one of these days. Get a room with yourself, Chris!

he went into a vitriolic harangue about Hillary Clinton, followed by nasty comments about Princess Diana (who had died a few months previously) and, I believe, Margaret Thatcher, for good measure.

What? He left out Mother Teresa? Shocking. Mother Teresa is another of his misogynistic targets. Funny how he went so berserk over Mother Teresa yet never turned his endless, tiresome, personal fury onto any of the recent popes. It is the pope who calls the tune. Mother Teresa only did the dance.

And Hitchens says women are incapable of being funny. He's got a real hardon for the ladies. But not that kind.

The only male who has ever been the subject of equivalent Hitchens Hate is Henry Kissinger. The way Hitchens goes on about him, you'd think Kissinger was a proper lady, I'm telling you.

Hitchens is a bully and a bore and a deranged Clinton hater. But Camille Paglia also suffers from Clinton Derangement Syndrome and she harangues liberals with namecalling, baseless allegations and flippant nonsense. You at least get to debate Hitchens while he is spewing, and you challenge (or try to challenge) his baseless allegations and namecalling in real time on a one-on-one basis. We have no such recourse and can only write letters that get posted after Paglia has had her say. She does not need to listen to us or read our defense. She can completely ignore us and get rewarded by you with a paycheck and an invitation to write another article.

You find Hitchens exasperating, but you are treated as his equal. Imagine how we feel being lectured by Paglia as she distorts, deliberately misconstrues and ridicules us and our beliefs. We are not treated as equals who disagree and who get equal time and attention.

The only way I have found to let Salon know how deeply I resent being ridiculed by someone who claims to be a progressive is by not renewing my membership. I may not be an equal, but I will not have my hard earned money contributing to giving a platform to an arrogant egotist who hatefully ridicules people who believe what I believe.

What you feel about Hitchens is how a lot of us feel about Paglia. And we never had dinner at her house or had drinks with her. She doesn't know our names nor does she care.

And you can have my version of a Nobel Prize. I can't afford the damn things. Here everyone is, yapping about putting ugly and potentially dangerous windfarms all over the place (windfarms that will be owned and managed by utility companies -- for a monthly bill) when we can do something for ourselves and not have to pay a utility company to manage it -- solar power -- and it's too damned expensive for us to buy and have installed.

Why aren't grassroots organizations and online zines like Salon demanding that we all deluge congress with demands to find the missing Iraq War 9 billion dollars and give it to the automakers and to demand immediate investigations into no bid war contracts?

That will fuck up the GOP bigtime.

Do

it.

Was this movie ever called "Medellin" and did it star Vincent Chase?