WORDS FAIL ME - WELL NOT REALLY. Bush and Cheney were and presumably still are total whack jobs, and so are the fascist republicans.

I understood when Bush thought it was a good idea to teach the myth of intelligent design in schools, after all he has no intellect.

I could even understand him and Cheney promoting torture - after all, and unlike John Kerry, they are both cowards.

But to classify satellite pictures of melting ice sheets indicates a degree of subhuman megalomania of such stupifying proportions it would make Josef Goebbels stand up and cheer.

Did he imagine that polar bears would invade the lower forty eight if they knew we had screwed their environment?

I can only assume that along with everything else, they outsourced their minds.

Which is pretty much what those nutters on the Republican right are doing. I don't care if they deny their own meager IQ points. But to imagine that real people will go for the vile crap they are spewing about redistribution of wealth under "liberals" when their own lack of any form of policy other than partying with lobbyists has just allowed the biggest social heist in history is amazing self delusion. Welcome to Beltway Dystopia.

Since they clearly can't read, I will work on some pictograms to show how - unlike those dreadful socialist countries like Denmark, Finland and Canada which come top of the upward mobility charts, The US and UK have now managed to create a situation where the bottom half are free - but only to pull themselves down by their bootstraps.

Which reminds me

Joanne and August.

Look, we all understand that the party of no doesn't get a lot of respect around here. But fear of losing shouldn't deter anyone from discussing anything at council meetings. It didn't stop the somewhat potty debate on the semantics of place. And I would have thought that anyone wanting less federal government would have jumped at the chance of making issues more local rather than less.

Ingenuous to walk out of meetings, and unconvincing when the argument is that you're not qualified on the subject, unless you recuse yourself from ever voting on anything other than American Idol.

On a technical point, I guess three council members could never orchestrate a walkout because they would have broken the Brown Act.

Anyway my advice is to suck it up. You would be more respected. And in any case you're the best looking on the TV. Bring a book - The Anthem by Ayn Rand. It's short. Make it look like you're listening, but read.

And remind yourself that living in a blue state has benefits - less pornography rental, fewer divorces, and not as many teen pregnancies.

Earth to Stanley

Someone told me the other day that mister Cohen can be a very funny person socially. This is in sharp contrast to his public posturing, which seems to be designed to win him the boor of the year award from the International Brotherhood of Killjoys.

Not content with excising any element of fun from the Fourth of July parade by banning rain, his latest hobby horse is garage sale signs criminally posted on public posts - (designed from my point of view to bring a measure of relief to the sterile manicured and childless streets of the east side.)

What next Stanley? A limit on laughing? How about killing off noisy mockingbirds, or spraying agent orange to obviate the necessity for mowers and blowers. That would also get rid of visual vegetable pollution. Then there would be no beans to count and you could turn your attention to property value projections using regression analysis of historic squirrel density data, with a view to an extermination program, with the side benefit of saving us from the anxiety of having to witness flat mammals.

Earth to August

As the world wrestles with an economic maelstrom, global warming, unemployment and the vicissitudes of geopolitics, Sonoma, or rather the five elected members of its council, are spending disappearing tax money to discuss whether "city" or "town" best describes our village.

It's obviously a village because where else would you find a village idiot to put such a stupid, irrelevent and laughable subject on the local government's agenda.