Indeed your last word on the subject, but I have a feeling you will return again and again and again... ad nauseum, ad infinitum, to the subject. And why? Because it's the only way some supporters-- you, Joan, apparently among them-- of Her Imperial Majesty can fathom and explain away the fact that she has lost her bid to be the Democratic nominee.

The real truth is that Her Majesty was and continues to be her own worst enemy. Starting from her vote on Iraq, her refusal to apologize for that endorsement of a policy that is so clearly wrongheaded and disastrous, her transparent and ever changing rationalizations about her reason for that vote, her "sniper fire" lie, her confounding loyalty to Mark Penn-- a sort of latter day Alcibiades, her palpable sense of entitlement which appears to have led (or, at least, contributed to) to a complete lack of planning beyond Super Tuesday which in turn led to her misbegotten "kitchen sink" strategy, and her bizarre praise of herself and the Republican nominee at the expense of her Democratic opponent, the list (much like this silly sexism bogeyman) goes on and on.

Strangely, none of that has anything to do with sexism. Plenty to do with a grasping nature, lack of foresight and injudicious choices, but nothing to do with sexism.

Does this mean that sexism hasn't occurred? No. But it is irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is the failure of her candidacy. Ergo, it is past time to acknowledge that sexism isn't at the root of Hillary's troubles and move the eff on.

That Joan Walsh will be doing another column about the latent sexism to be found in this factoid.

However, it should be noted that logic dictates that a lying liar, caught in yet another lie, might-- just might, mind you--expect to get flak from all sides... but maybe that's my male oriented viewpoint talking.

What has my country become?

A land replete with such "good Germans" who look the other way or rationalize that torture, TORTURE for the love of Christ, really might be justified. Under the right circumstances and only in darkened rooms, of course.

Until the knock on the door is for them and theirs and by then it will be too late.

Yawn. More whining about an unspecified "many" women-- Obama supporters among them, no less-- bothered by the base and open sexism of an also unspecified "many" Obama supporters.

Fascinating, really. I don't mean the so-called "facts" of this rather pedestrian "news" story. I mean the pathos of trying to explain Her Majesty's failed campaign through the prism of nebulous, unspecified and heretofore unverified charges of sexism on the part of her opponent's supporters.

The plain fact is that she ran a crappy campaign, replete with a lack of planning and foresight second only to the invasion of Iraq-- which might also explain that pesky vote that has dogged her thus far.

Sexism had nothing to do with it. Except maybe the reverse sexism of "many" women trying desperately to pin the blame for their role model's failure not on her own flawed character, but on a nefarious, mysterious (and undoubtedly, vast) male conspiracy.

After rising up in (self) righteous indignation to defend the faith-filled and the gunbearing (including a delightful snippet about what an armsman she purports to be), Her Majesty declined to provide answers to the questions of when was the last time she either attended church or fired a gun.

She did find time, however, to be filmed downing a shot and a beer. How very blue collar! And unbitter.

Of course, maybe if some of those small town working class cleared 109 million last year, they'd find very little to be bitter about too... and probably spend less time drinking in bars with political riffraff.

And I'm bitter as hell.

I'm watching my Republican governor cut 4 billion from the education budget-- putting my wife out of work in the bargain-- yet borrow 7 billion to improve the prison system.

I'm watching my country sink deeper and deeper into an Iraqi quagmire of our own making, with a body count growing, no end in sight and nobody able to do anything about it beyond the occasional ritual wringing of hands.

I'm watching freeways decay, bridges fall and public buildings rot away, and yet the funds to reverse this entropy are poured out into the sands of Basra, Fallouja and Baghdad.

I'm watching houses around me go into foreclosure, neighbors become homeless, the price of gasoline reach record highs, my middle class friends get squeezed harder and ever harder, as the wealth of this nation accrues into fewer and fewer hands.

I'm watching an administration of a boundless greed and corruption never before seen in the history of our country go completely unpunished and uninvestigated, despite my own political party having a majority in both houses of Congress.

And I'm watching a race of historic personages, able to reverse this downward course and perhaps save this once great nation, devolve into a pointless schoolyard brawl of he-said-she-said gotchas, aided by a feckless media, a megalomaniac former First Lady and a self involved punditry.

Bitter? You're goddamned right. Anybody who isn't hasn't been paying attention for about the last decade or so.

Before Her Imperial Majesty weighs in with a vow to investigate longer and harder?

Oh, and unbitterly.

The only ones really bitter about the remarks are Her Imperial Majesty and her slavish cadre of devotees...

McCain might have been bitter, but he's probably forgotten by now.

It's apparently impossible to investigate them, too

But then, that might require Congressional leaders to actually grow spines.