The headline says it all:

Geraldine Ferraro: Don’t call me a racist, you racist!!

What a bunch of jerks they all are—the campaigns, the advocates, the supporters, the talking heads, the whole lot of them. This is devolving into something very nasty, and a lot of people are getting hurt. It goes way beyond the usual circular firing squad behavior of the Democrats. I mean, they’ve all forgotten about how much they hate Bush and they are intent on destroying one another.

It makes it very easy for me to appreciate David Mamet when he writes:

Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal‘

Allow me to quote:

As a child of the ’60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.

These cherished precepts had, over the years, become ingrained as increasingly impracticable prejudices. Why do I say impracticable? Because although I still held these beliefs, I no longer applied them in my life. How do I know? My wife informed me. We were riding along and listening to NPR. I felt my facial muscles tightening, and the words beginning to form in my mind: Shut the fuck up. “?” she prompted. And her terse, elegant summation, as always, awakened me to a deeper truth: I had been listening to NPR and reading various organs of national opinion for years, wonder and rage contending for pride of place. Further: I found I had been—rather charmingly, I thought—referring to myself for years as “a brain-dead liberal,” and to NPR as “National Palestinian Radio.”

This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is always wrong.

But in my life, a brief review revealed, everything was not always wrong, and neither was nor is always wrong in the community in which I live, or in my country. Further, it was not always wrong in previous communities in which I lived, and among the various and mobile classes of which I was at various times a part.

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Wanna know how pigs fight?

To understand why potbellied pigs become aggressive, we need to understand their herd instincts. In the wild, pigs travel in herds. Wihin this herd structure, there is a very defined heirarchy, similar to a pecking order in chickens. When two pigs meet for the first time, they fight — often viciously. This fighting may include posturing and frothing at the mouth; the hair on the back of the neck may stand up and the tail may point straight out and wag. A fighting pig will position him or herself so that his head aligns with the other pig’s shoulder. The pigs will slam their heads into each other’s shoulders, cutting with their tusks and wiping the foam from their mouths onto the other pig. This foam contains the pig’s scent, and marks the other pig with the smell. The fighting will continue until one pig admits defeat and runs away. A pig fight to establish dominance in the herd heirarchy can take hours.

Pigs appear to have very little concept of size. An adult pig will fight with a piglet a tenth his size, or with a farm pig ten times his size. Smaller pigs are frequently more agile and it can be difficult for larger pigs to catch them.

We have also observed behaviors such as tail biting, leg biting and ear biting. Although we know of only one pig who has ever lost a tail during a fight, it is common for major damage to occur to the ears. During a fight, pigs’ ears can be split in two or a portion may be completely ripped off. When this type of injury occurs, the hurt pig will immediately submit to the dominant pig and search out mud with which to coat his injury. By covering the injury in mud, the pig prevents insects from accessing the wound.

You think Eliot Spitzer’s in trouble? Check this:

Tehran’s police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, according to report on the Iranian Farda News.

Mr. Zarei has something else in common with Mr. Spitzer:

Before he was arrested, Zarei was in charge of the programme for the ‘moralisation of the city’.

It is alleged that in the past six months, hundreds of young people have been arrested in Iran for not respecting the Islamic code of behaviour.

Fallibility*** knows no religion. It’s what we human beings all have in common.

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*** I’ve got nothing against prostitution, as long as it is consensual between two people: the hooker and client. I do have issues with age, of course: no minors! And I have big issues with anything that involves an unequal power relationship, like pimp and hooker.

No, not from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their retarded supporters, who seem determined to play You’re Not Allowed to Say That for the next six months (to the merriment of Republicans and everyone else in America who is sick to death of the Church of Political Correctness).

Here’s my favorite punching bag, A’jad:

“Today the name of Iran means a firm punch in the teeth of the powerful and it puts them in their place,” [said] Ahmadinejad,

Also, in case you were wondering:

“Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world,”

Hmmm. By by my lights, that makes Iran the frontrunner. Perhaps in that case they should get ready to be attacked. With rhetoric only, of course!

The Spitzer Stunner has, as expected, dominated cable “news” since the juicy scandal broke yesterday afternoon at around 2 p.m. As I write, CNN features the unfolding details of the story (alongside old video of Spitzer the Punisher of Crime and Immorality) at the top of every hour.

This sensation has knocked Campaign ‘08 off the number-one spot on the Mediathon (Frank Rich’s brilliant characterization of the Entertainment Nation^TM we’ve become.

The cable shows started their stories of the night with Spitzer. The could hardly wait, however, to get to The Barak and Clinton Show. Last night’s episode was told from the point of view of our scrappy hero Barack, who, after several days of insults from the Evil Clintons, finally came back with a great retort. But was it too little too late? That was the gist of things. Talking heads fretted and advised. Some applauded the Clintons’ brilliant but evil genius in throwing Obama off his message (by my count he’s been off his message for two weeks, starting with their final debate). Others (like Karl Rove, on Fox) scolded him for a tactical error. Obama should have been the one to deliver the harsh message, he said; that should have been left up to his surrogates or advocates. Dick Morris, also on Fox, disagreed. He thought Obama did great. On CNN, Gloria Borger talked about the “dangerous” implication (for Obama, should he become the nominee of the party) of Hillary’s 3 a.m. ad, and how Democrats were nervous about it. Lanny Davis tried to point out that prior to the ad, the polls had shown Obama to be weak in this area. Anderson Cooper brushed him off, saying polls don’t matter now that Obama has votes (more than Hillary).

All I could think about was how the pro-Obama camp is deluding itself. Polls do matter, somewhat—particularly polls about people’s general attitudes rather than specific party-related issues. They indicate a larger trend (or a larger picture) than the concrete vote count in Democratic primaries that have been hyped by media hysteria.

I think—and I have written—that Clinton aired the 3 a.m. ad after reading a certain Pew poll that indicated Obama’s obvious weakness in the area of national security. The Evil Clintons, being smart and evil, see past the primaries. They see that Obama will be a very, very weak candidate for the Democrats. As I have said repeatedly: I’m not a politico. But I am not blind to politics, or to reality.

What I wanted to say in this post, however, is that Obamamania has indeed been punctured. He has lost not only his momentum but also his place in the Mediathon—which is what propelled him to the top. He was able to hijack the spotlight for many weeks. It’s now over. The media has had to move on.

Not only that, but, contrary to those who think the Spitzer story will hurt Hillary Clinton, I think it’s most likely to hurt Barack Obama. It’s a sobering reminder that politicians—no matter how good they make themselves look and how good we would like them to be—are mostly lying, cheating, scheming scum.