Please. This is just another blowhard hypocrite hoist with his own petard and all the pontificating and truisms in the world won't change that.

Yes, humans are weak. Wow! Stunner. But most of us weaklings still don't cheat on their spouses.

Yes, marriage is hard. Wow! Another stunner. And so what? If you find yourself longing to "spark" someone else as the good governor might say, you can decide not to act on it, you can betray the one you pledged your heart to, or you can decide to end one relationship before starting another. Any way you slice it, you make a conscious decision. The other person doesn't just fall from the sky and force their penis or vagina upon you.

Playing this cheap and tawdry affair off as some sort of broader commentary on the human condition is just plain silly.

It shows that once a dick, always a dick.

Look at the Zapruder film very carefully, you can actually see little Barack and Bill on the grassy knoll.

Coincidence?

I think not!

I'm not sure which is worse:

1) That McCain's judgement was so bad that he picked a wack job like Palin as his VP.

2) That someone so inane, flawed and vapid would've been a heartbeat away (and an aging heart, at that) from the Presidency.

3) That McCain staffers saw the train wreck they were dealing with and chose to go ahead anyway and damn the potentially very real consequences for the entire country.

He was also a pedophile. But I'm sure that community takes great comfort in the fact that he was one of them.

I want you to cash in all your CDs, empty your bank accounts, sell your house, any stocks you might have and, oh yeah, cash in your retirement account too, and send all the money to a guy on the internets with the moniker Pubius Maximus.

In cash.

Small bills.

And tell no one.

If you do, I really promise good things will happen to you.

Really.

Signed,

Your Buddy (God)

That she is the Republican nominee in 2012. I can only imagine the implosion! Maybe it will be enough to finally consign the modern Republican Party to history's dustbin once and for all.

To determine which will happen first-- the collapse of all the planet's ocean fisheries or the advent of a global warming induced catastrophe that will inundate us all.

Although, on the bright side, if it's the former followed by the latter, the human race could end up the antithesis of Luca Brasi-- sleeping without the fishes.

The woman can see Russia from her house.

Also.

I can't trust the Republicans (well, obviously, no duh.), yet I can't trust the Democrats either. Both are clearly in the pockets of the monied interests.

So, what's the alternative? Or, if none is in sight (which seems to be the case), how do I-- just a lowly civil servant doing my job, collecting my pay and going home to my modest dwelling each night to live my simple life-- go about wresting the hands of some of the most powerful, wealthy corporations on the planet from the controlling levers of my government?

I'm interested in doing my bit, but somebody please explain to me what bit that might be.

I hope that she does become the Republican nominee. I can imagine no better way to guarantee a swift and sure (and possibly, crippling) defeat of the GOP.

As Napoleon Dynamite might say, she's got no flippin' skills!

She can't debate.

She can't interview.

She can barely speak two words without one of them constituting a demonstrable falsehood.

As a candidate, she will crash and burn and you don't need to be a psychic to foresee her taking down a string of down ticket candidates along with her.

Of regulating attorneys, do me a favor and DON'T become a lawyer. You appear to be lacking the emotional stability, the maturity and the drive to actually become a decent attorney.

Our disciplinary system is chock full of folks like you who couldn't really tell you why they became an attorney and who lack the interest to give much of a damn about their clients-- to the point where they eventually begin abandoning them, stealing their money, trashing their cases, and leaving us to clean up the mess.

Spare yourself the inevitable investigations, subpoenas, depositions, and disciplinary proceedings; spare the public from your depredations, however well intended they began; and spare me from yet another unmotivated, disinterested, lying a-hole in my caseload.

So, your logic is that I should be happy that someone so apparently lacking the motivation and maturity to actually be an attorney is seriously considering becoming one, because that gives me job security? Interesting reasoning. And by interesting I mean silly and foolish beyond belief.

Additionally, I never said LW sounded like a lying, cheating thief or whatever. What I did say was that immature, unmotivated individuals who get involved in such a demanding, stressful field as that of law can quickly become problems to their clients, the justice system as a whole and, selfishly I admit, to me. Perhaps reading comprehension is not your forte'.

As for maturity and writing ability, which is somehow linked in your mind and appears to be your third point, judging from your intemperate rant and your other scribblings I can only advise-- physician heal thyself.

I'm not sure exactly what you're the deputy chief of, but I can only hope it doesn't involve protecting the public from anything more serious than wandering unlicensed pets.

I can see your ghost writer from my house!

I would've bet money that Orrin Hatch thought nunchuks were a cloistered species of woodchuks...

Considering that the Republicans haven't done anything worthwhile for the country since Lincoln freed the slaves, that would be bad why?

The last-- perhaps the only-- great television journalist has passed. Rest in peace.