Ugly: On Chicks and Dicks and Horny Hicks

Tone - in politics, in life - matters. What, then, to make of the crass and gasp-inducing vitriol launched by the right wing at Sandra Fluke's brief, cogent, polite convention criticism of the GOP's War on Women? What to do with people - with a platform, yet - brimming with so much venom? Is it ego, fear of the other, old deep inscrutable woman-hatred, some ancient hole within that makes you willing to do or say anything not to lose what you have? Just askin'. And beware.

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Seeking Palestine, Or At Least A Sack of Flour

Striking taxi drivers have joined thousands of Palestinians across the West Bank protesting the high cost of living, especially fuel prices that have jumped up to 12%. People are blocking traffic, parking bulldozers, banging pots and riding donkeys to protest an economic system that suffers at the hands of Israel, and too-pliant Palestinian officials who go along with it.

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Ouch: Mitt Loses To Clint and His Magic Chair

Poor little rich boy can't catch a break. First, the paltry number of viewers who tuned in to see Romney get where he's spent so many years clawing and lying to be. Now, Pew reports fewer people liked his speech than Clint Eastwood's wondrous Invisible Obama routine. Romney's typically classy, generous response: He cut Clint from the RNC highlight video.

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