people I know personally think that Hillary "can't control/satisfy her man" and therefore how could she run a country.

Um... huh?

Also, what?

So it's the second name as much as the two 'x' chromosomes? I see.

I actually think that a lot of the reason they hate Bill Clinton so much is that he's married to Hillary Clinton, not the other way around. It can actually get kind of scary to listen to -- the way the really serious HRC-haters talk about her is almost exactly the way they talk about Saddam Hussein.

Um... huh?

Also, what?

That was sort of my reaction, but my boss AND her husband both seemed to agree.

Someone was just saying to me that, if they do genuinely believe she had Vince Foster killed, why aren't they more scared of talking shit about her??

Re: politics

I was overhearing 2 black people on my bus talking about Obama, and they were really hung up on his name. Not necessarily the Osama/Obama thing, but that it wasn't "a black man's name" so they weren't sure if they would vote for him.

Another lady predicted that he would get elected and then assasinated, because "they wouldn't let a black man be president". Which, after I thought about it, didn't seem all that unlikely.

the way the really serious HRC-haters talk about her is almost exactly the way they talk about Saddam Hussein.

What I'm hoping is that she'll have the money to do as much in-person campaigning as possible and be able to win over right-of-center women to her side. My impression (which may be completely wrongheaded) is that a fair sized portion of the right wing knows that they're supposed to hate her, but are a little fuzzy on remembering exactly why.

Honestly? As best I can tell, they spent so many years listening to the right wing machine demonize her as this crazy ultra liberal feminist who wants to take your children away to be raised by a village of gay people, or something.

There's other stuff going on too, of course, most of it I think related to the underlying misogyny that a lot of people try to pretend is a thing of the past. She wears pants! She has policy opinions and seems to think that she deserves a role in government just because she sleeps with the president! We didn't elect her!

Nevermind that she was as qualified as any other cabinet member or other appointed role. In some quarters there was just such an outrage that HRC failed to adhere to her traditional First Lady role that it set off years of demonizing her every move simply to justify the virulence of the reaction and make it something other than what it was.

The upshot is that to this day, there are tons of people in this country who simply aren't rational on the subject, in the sense that their perception of her postion on the political continum is quite at odds with reality. And I don't how that changes.

[Among rational people, of course, there are plenty of reasons to either support or oppose her depending on your own bent on the issues or HRC as a person/candidate/politician. But the rabidity on the right is a whole other thing.]

But do authors normally have to register? Allyson--ask Hec or Deb if they have. I guess, if they do, that the party issuing the 1099 might be the trigger.

Someone recently told me that the City of LA requires professional writers to have a business license. If you make less than a certain amount, you can file for an exemption, as long as you do it before the end of February.

Allyson, here's the page about the exemption.

Awesome quote:

"'Politics' is made up of two words. 'Poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are bloodsucking insects." Gore Vidal