The name of the game for Bush & Company is NEPOTISM.

Friends at the World Bank have been griping about Wolfie's girlfriend for a couple of years... she got star treatment, primo position, and was given the best projects, despite a less than stellar career before taking up with Wolfie.

If you are one of the insiders rah-rahing for Bush & Co., you get the contracts, the jobs, the appointments -- all translate to money in your pocket.

And if you're not rah-rahing loud or fast enough, you get axed, or indicted, or maybe a one-way trip to Guantanamo...

Wolfowitz extreme partisanship is an embarassment for America in terms of the world's view of the World Bank -- and now having his flunky girlfriend on the big fat payroll just adds to the dishonor that Wolfowitz and Bush have brought on America.

Even the Americans at the World Bank are so disgusted with Wolfowitz -- you can imagine what the non-US folks are saying...

P.S. Don't miss the New YOrker profile of Wolfie...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy

I've been off on a one-week, computer-free vacation, but I fully expected to come back to a classic Debra Dickerson psychobabble rant from Salon's favorite self-hating "I'm black" and I'm a real African-American (as opposed to those unreal African-African-Americans) expounding on the whole Imus affair.

But alas, Dickerson must be on spring break with her "white, biracial, half-black but they don't know it yet" children.

Otherwise, why would she fail to write the expected convoluted diatribe blasting Imus, which would also somehow manage to drag Barack Obama through the mud AND embarass her children, all in one fell swoop?

Hey, get cracking, Deb!

Dear Camille,

In the interest of recreational deconstructionism and given your impeccable and erudite liberal Democrat perspective, I must ask what your thoughts are about the failure of the Democrats to prevent the sinking of the cruise ship off Santorini? Is this not further evidence of the failure of Democrats at every level of society?

-- Sarita Sycophant

Dear Camille,

Given that you are one of our nation's leading intellectual thinkers, and one of the best writers we've ever known, I have just one question. Why have you not received a Nobel Prize for Literature?

-- Lester Lickspittle

Dear Camille,

You are perhaps the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I'm wondering if you would be willing to share your beauty regime with my wife, who would do well to emulate you in your impeccable grooming and incredible personal style.

-- F. Kowtow Lacke'

Dear Camille,

Inquiring minds need to know! What is the real reason you have returned to Salon? Are you going to use the extra money you earn to help finance college educations for an entire band of Malawian orphans? Did Joan Walsh run into you at a secret meeting of the Conservative Women's Caucus, and over creme brulees and too much Courvoisier, beg you to return, with tears in her eyes? Did Karl Rove dispatch you as the last, best, secret weapon of the GOP? Or is it just that you love us all so much, and didn't want us to suffer any more without your wisdom and guidance?

-- Fawn Le Cretin

And maybe if I sign my name, you won't delete this one? Hmmm...criticism of Salon's page-view inflating monetizing policies not permitted?

It's clear that the sole purpose in running this bloviating drivel is to drive page views.

How cynical can you get, Salon?

Can everyone who weighed in to the radio networks or advertisers to help get Imus fired now please turn your attention to the following offensive, delusional, racist/sexist/xenophobic/etc., multi-media "shock jocks?"

• Ann Coulter
• Rush Limbaugh
• Sean Hannity
• Glenn Beck
• Camille Paglia*
• Debra Dickerson*

* Joan, removing these two particular losers from their main media venue is YOUR responsibility, one you so far have failed to address...

Acc. to CNN, about half the student body at Va. Tech is foreign born, including many Muslims.

How long before the wingnuts chalk it up to Al Qaeda? (Even though the killer's probably yet another yeehaw, gun-toting wingnut himself.)

Or maybe the shooter was a Muslim convert...

I mean, ya never know, and there's ALWAYS a way to figure out how to blame the Muslims...

that Bush went to Va. Tech was that he and his flunkies were not directly responsible for the debacle (at least not that we're currently aware of).

Bush cannot feel the pain of his OWN victims -- i.e., the people of New Orleans, the people of Iraq, and the people across America who are suffering due to the injury, loss or extended duty of loved ones in Iraq.

Bush feels the pain only if he hasn't inflicted it.

Which means there's a whole lotta pain Bush is never going to feel...

Cho was apparently a first class mental case and diagnosable sociopath.

But George Bush doesn't even have that sad diagnosis to hide behind -- at least not yet.

So yes, Tim, I think it's entirely appropriate to remind Americans that that one day in Blacksburg -- as tragic as it is -- is like EVERY SINGLE DAY in Baghdad, and as long as George Bush is in charge, it will continue like that in Baghdad.

Forget impeachment. I think it's time we have the President involuntarily committed...

He's going down.

He can't even refrain from having a spat with Specter -- and Specter is supposedly on HIS side...

(Though you have to begrudgingly respect old Specter, because he's at least not a complete and total toady for the Repubs...)

Seriously. This is a debacle, and a clear sign of the absolute degradation of our American justice system. I should be depressed.

But I'm actually riveted by this, and enjoying watching Gonzalez squirm...