Fuck dKos voters and their silly voting. "Sex On the City" is cute and all, but (1) not everybody watched the show [raises hand] so won't get the connection and (2) it's too fucking long. You want something headline writers can use, will want to use, will lust to use, will find some way to sneak in past editors because its just so luscious.

For that it must contain a huge amount of information in the tiniest possible space, and what could be bigger than sex and terror together?

"America's Playa" is cute too but what can I say, it does not sing for me. If people pronounced "mayor" properly it would do better but most people say it more like "mare" so the rhythm and rhyme are both lost.

They had it right with "69-11". I intend to use it, so to speak, religiously when referring to RudyAnnie.

Sorry Xan

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Always nice to steer the huge vessel, S.S. Daily Kos, in the right direction.

I guess I'd say it's a bit Coastal... But then it's really directed at the Villagers, isn't it?

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

(This is not, repeat not, intended literally. Otherwise I would have to put it into one of the "to tase, or not to tase, that is the question" posts.)

I've been pulling my jaw up off the floor regularly the last few days watching the evening network news coverage of this story, (mostly NBC but some CBS lately as the marshmallow content at the Peacock is getting beyond my tolerance range).

The first time I heard the phrase "Guiliani and his mistress" I about fainted. It was straightforward, casual, indeed downright French in its relaxed acceptance of Rich White Men's Right To Fuck Around On Their Wives.

The wife at the time, interestingly more, was not even mentioned. Her existence--the fact that he was both legally and socially and officially married, not divorced or even separated at the time of the Mistress activity--was completely omitted. It was covered as if he were, oh let's say Bloomberg.

If Bloomberg were caught doing the exact same things Rudy did it would be one kind of scandal: using city funds/personnel/police resources to make life comfortable for the Nookie Lady. A financial no-no but of no particular moral significance for a single person.

The problem is that that's the way the 69/11 scandal is being covered. The moral aspect, the humiliation of his legal wife and mother of his children, the mortification the children themselves had to have undergone (as if being the offspring of any politician wasn't difficult and particularly one such as Rudy wasn't bad enough)--completely glossed over.

Where are our Public God-Botherers on all this, the Committes for the Prevention of Vice of the Christibanians? The ones who could hardly draw breath fast enough to keep up years of shrieking about Clinton's Penis and how it was Setting A Bad Example and Making Our Children Hear Sex Talk On TV and Ought To Have An RFID Chip Implanted In It With GPS Capability So We Can Keep Track Of Its Whereabouts In The Future and other ceaseless pontificating?

Where are the priests and other Catholic officials to lecture all of us sternly and debate whether Guiliani should be denied communion for his (repeat) violations of the commandment against adultery?

This is being treated as a cross between Boys Will Be Boys and There But For The Grace Of God Go I by the (serious, i.e. white, male and rich) national media. A personal matter if you will, which we will bring up in interviews only with obvious reluctance and delicacy of phrasing and repeated apologies for having to mention matters of the flesh. And asked, if at all, only to permit Rude E to denounce any coverage of the story and deny any misdeeds took place.

Why Huckabee and particularly the Mormon Mittster are letting him slide on this, and especially in Iowa, is most curious. Maybe there's a whispering campaign going on under the radar but I haven't heard of it. Then again my subscription to the Iowa Baptist Beauty Parlor Operators Association & Bowling League Organizer news feed has been a little erratic lately.