"Give me a little more representation in the female blogosphere, please."

Do it yourself. Don't come here and whine that you don't have a voice. Speak up. Over there. Better yet, way over there. Anywhere but here where people are serious about the Republican's field dressing of the Constitution and the plundering of the sweet soil.

I suspect you're a neocon operative. Yesterday, Salon was flooded with first-time posters who got all damp just thinking about the pro-torture Palin and her adoration of tortured Jesus. A committee was formed by McCain to counter bad press about Palin. I suspect you're one of them or their servants.

If you're not, get busy with your blog. Invite your pro-torture friends to praise the tortured Jesus. And prepare for Retribution Day, the coming day when the Republican debt comes due. I hope you're rich. You're going to need it.

It's all about context. Back in the Bronze Age, Palin would be considered cutting edge, divining her way with the latest mythology.

...a euphemism for "defend our country" the Palin way: it's called anticipatory retaliation.

So much for "Thou shalt not kill."

And "turning the other cheek."

Now Palin is talking about war with Russia. Will China loan us the money for our third war? Or since we're now conducting military operations in Pakistan, our fourth war?

Killin' for Christ.

The Republicans should worship Mars, the God of War. Other than their fondness for torture, what do they see in Jesus?

Post 9-11, given that Bush said Jesus was his fave philosopher, one would have thought that Bush would have urged America to turn the other cheek instead of kill, kill, kill.

The Republicans really do worship the wrong God and they treat God as if He were Paris Hilton, craving, craving, forever craving our adoration. On one hand, I can't take the Republicans seriously. Rather, I can't take their faith seriously, for they're far too fond of torture, war, and executions. On the other, given the global instability, moral, financial, and political, wrought by their war-mongering, I have to take them deadly seriously.

Gay people are too valuable for hating. Too many human beings need a boogeybeing. Gay people are perfect because they're small in number and they have no Rodney King-sized riots in their history. Stonewall just doesn't feature footage of drag queens driving semi-drivers from their rigs and pummeling them.

Like abortion, gay people have served the Republican Party too long and too well to be discarded. So, the Republicans will discard this data, dismissing it as just science, as they pop popcorn in their science microwaves, clutch the cross of the tortured Jesus, and continue voting for people who don't love their neighbors as themselves and do, do, do commit torture.

Jesus too, for they tortured in His name.

Rich women don't face physical peril. When they do, it's ala Barbara Hershey in Beaches, where they're swaddled on a beach, like Jodie Foster in Panic Room, where the bad, dirty, poor people wedged their way into their clean and shiny world, or the social peril of loss of class/income, as in First Wives Club. I just can't take rich women as seriously. How can anyone take a person who gets manicures and more manicures seriously?

And how can we take seriously actresses who keep cutting their faces, which are their canvases? It isn't even mortality that they're contesting. It's the lost power of their youthful allure and no amount of tugging will return that.

She waves the flag with a bloody hand.

Her lipstick might even be blood-based.

That's what inflation is.

True story: I wandered into an antique shop in a Midwest town and I asked the dealer, "So, how's the recession affected your business?"

She said, "The middle class is gone, but the poor have arrived."

"What do you mean?"

"The middle class are gone as buyers, but the poor have arrived as sellers. They bring their things to me, hoping that I'll buy them so that they can feed their children."

"Do you?"

"No, I can't. They're poor. They don't have anything of value."

The poor went into her shop because of the inflation-tax increases. The rich don't give a shit if gas doubles in price. They've got Bush's five tax cuts for the wealthy to buy more gas than they'll ever need.

I think McCain/Palin won't be happy with Bush's wars. And they'll reinstitute the draft. They can't fight more wars without more dead soldiers walking.

I never thought of big guns.

I got it from Roy Bigguns, that character on the tv show, Wings.

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I've read that men wage war because they form hierarchies. I know this is ev psych and so some of you will hateHateHATE it, but I think it's so. You can't ATTACK if you don't have a chain of command and that chain of comMANd can't tolerate processing. Processing gums up action. So, processing is good, in that it keeps women from waging war and it's bad in that it keeps you swirling in the toilet bowl of your misery.

It is a drama drain. It drains you and it's a also a sink-type drain, sucking you into the dark, dizzying drama. I think I started to grow up when I started to shed those girlfriends who wanted to say the same things, again and again.