I don't know how anyone could hate Carter. I can see them disagreeing with him, or resenting him (maybe, well not really, but I can allow for it), but he's so dear, so sincere, pretty wise, and so very good.

He did challenge individuals by naming Barbra Streisand on the one hand and pointing out that there were three conservatives on the list-- and one had killed an abortion doctor! That right there pretty much said all you needed about Goldberg's book. If his problem is coarsening, Jimmy Carter, Barbra Streisand and a murderer do not belong on the same list.

I also thought his casual use of slurs was kind of offensive, as if he relished being able to say them on-air, as well as his whole fantasy example of a Fox News channel-- I mean, if your example is all about offensiveness that doesn't occur in real life, don't you destroy your whole point about how we've got no bounds on offensiveness?

I'm so proud! You have to be out some tough competition to be the looniest leftiest city on this coast!

Yeah, Seattlistas! Although I imagine Bay Areaistas (or is Bayistas) might argue for this one.

Although I imagine Bay Areaistas (or is Bayistas) might argue for this one.

I think we're loonier. But I think Seattle's more deeply lefty/progressive.

You know what's funny? I got my officemate that Stewart America book for his birthday (knew he'd find it funny.) And now he's watching the show. So I somehow pimped a show I don't watch (no cable.)

Funny to me, at least.

Ukrainian vampire drugged children and drank their blood

A vampire has been arrested in Ukraine after luring street children into her home for their blood.

Diana Semenuha, 29, believed that drinking blood could fend off a muscle-wasting condition.

She kept the children intoxicated on drugs and alcohol and bled them regularly, selling the surplus to other black magic practitioners. When that weakened them, she dumped them back on the streets and lured replacements with the promise of a place to sleep and a hot meal.

Damn. I was just going to say that "Hec'll be here to argue for SF" but then I got distracted by looking for pictures of Brad in skirts.

I love that top one so very much.

So I have a question.

A friend of mine was telling me that if you are looking for citizenship and you enlist in the army, you become a citizen after 9 months. True or false?

But still, Goldberg said Seattle was "ground zero for overpriced coffee," and home of more "progressive loonies than anyplace else on the Left Coast."

IN YOUR *FACE* SF!!!

I think we're loonier. But I think Seattle's more deeply lefty/progressive.

I think we breed more serial killers, and get the loon prize, too. Seattle's pretty blue, but we also have a lot of cranky anti-tax activists in the area, which means that not a lot actually gets done around here.

Also, men in skirts? Eric Bana has great legs!