Ok, so I'm not about to sign up for a date with Mr. Yaroslava Krestovskaya, writer for Pravda.

But at least they have the guts to say about Saint Condoleezza what the American press is too afraid to say, given that they're so busy exclaiming What shoes! What suits! What an education! What piano playing! What discipline! What loyalty! (To which I say, what crap!)

Condoleezza IS, as Pravda said, "SCARY."

She does go around reprimanding people like a strict school-teacher, and you only have to listen to her, and see her positions on international issues to know that, yes, indeed, as Pravda has said, "her soul and heart have hardened."

Condoleezza IS like a "malicious mother-in-law." She thinks she knows everything, she butts into everyone's business, AND she has the ear of the "man of the family."

Sorry Broadsheet, but even Yaroslava the Caveman's got some points about Condoleezza right, and it's more than can be said for many of our major newspaper and magazines covering the State Department...

we wouldn't be subjected to her whiny apologetics for the administration, or HER INCOMPETENCE IN THE DAYS BEFORE 9-11.

Sigh...I miss Madeleine Albright, a woman with a spine and a brain.

Oh, but you left out what makes the quote so unspeakably vile!

"...she is a single woman who has no children. If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied."

It's oh so much worse than you painted it. The appalling crassness of it never fails to elicit a chuckle. The kind of chuckle I get when one of my special ed students does something so incredibly amusing. I want to laugh, but fear what this means of me.

Really, Lynn? That's what you consider unspeakably vile? Some guy making a (well-deserved) comment about Rice, the woman who went shoe shopping instead of being on the job while people were dying in New Orleans? Really? We'll have to remember that the next time you make a wisecrack in the same vein about men.

Oh, wait. This comes straight after your dismissal of the "Dinner Whore" thing as "a tempest in a 'tini"! (Rather a lame pun, there, Lynn. Try harder next time.) So I guess we won't have to remember your self-important overstatement after all.

I'm an old-school feminist, and this kind of bitchy, gossipy excuse for "feminism" makes me tired. Come on, I know the importance of an issue depends on where the viewer is sitting, but this is ridiculous.

unlike in America, the men there know when a woman has stepped over the line.

The best this Vladimir Zhirinovsky dude can do to defend his country is to attack Rice personally? He could have come up with a more logical defense (like maybe citing why he thinks Russia is so great) but then he would have missed the opportunity to pray on American's fears about American women's roles. If you take a moment to learn about this Vladimir guy you'll see that his usual mode of operation is to make outlandish statements about all sorts of things. Oh yeah, and he wrote an article praising Hitler too.

Because I think there might already be a few female corpses there. And no, I'm not kidding. Hate that strong is rarely restricted to words.

Well,I juist think it's funny that the first comment by Anonymous (who appears to be a woman) assumed that the author (whom she would not go out on a date with) of the article citing Russia's main political scandalist and clown Zhirinovsky was a MAN. Unless there is a sex change involved, Ms. Yaroslava Krevtsova is a woman. As to the comments by Zhirinovsky, no one takes him seriously, he says the most outrageous things all the time. Although, this time I would let it pass - Condloleeza IS "scary beyond all reason"!