I found Coulter's comments shocking. Just shocking. Then I tried to figure out WHY I still find her shocking after all her bullshit, and I don't have an answer.

I think we should always be shocked when prominent people blithely joke about the death of others, no matter how many times they've done it before.

For instance, you may remember when Thomas Friedman wrote this in 1999 as we bombed Serbia:

"It should be lights out in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge, road and war-related factory has to be targeted. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too."

Ha ha ha! Ah, that's witty.

Lo, The Witty Friedman (have you read Matt Taibbi's great stuff on him, btw?. I don't remember who said it, but, referring to what makes someone a lifelong socialist, a writer once remarked "To be a socialist you only need to be able to be shocked at injustice over and over and over, forever." Yup.

Hm. It's a trick I'm still learning, as part of my political awakening, but it's interesting to take "Belgrade" in Friedman's quote and replace it with "Washington". Yes, very interesting.

Just because you weren't elected pope, Jonathan, is no excuse to take it out on our Ms. Coulter.

Oh, right, mk! I guess that's easy to say for people like you! People who are JUST JEALOUS!!!

*bursts into tears*

*runs into room*

*slams door*

Tut, tut, dear Jonathan. There's sure to be another papacy around the corner. And, in the meantime, I'm sure Martha Stewart Living still wants you!

I have seen the enemy, and it is a violent transexual.

There was that time that some Canadian TV journo told the truth and shredded her in public...now why can't there be more like that?

As continually shocked as I am at Ann Coulter and the Oklahoma Anniversary...

Dennis Perrin has some unpleasant but absolutely right things to say about Waco.

I don't know how to put a link in here, but if you look over to the left, under "Actual Friends"...

Wrong Jon,

No problem ever made less sense if seen under the proper lens, and for Ann it becomes clear that what she says makes sense when you realize she attends the Church of the Golden Calf...

"You are an instrument of the Devil and crucify America with your lies; you are the war-creating Whore of Babylon and would be damned were you not mercifully destined to be swallowed by Oblivion with all created things"

In another bout of useless trivia...

Lamont Crans[t]on? What's the Shadow doing on this website?

Juke,

Nice historical fragment! I'd never heard that before.

Matthew,

What's the Shadow doing on this website? I think that's for him to know, and us to find out.