Moral Boosters

By Keith R. Schmitz

If anything the Bush administration has been hypocritical and disingenuous from day 1, so why expect anything different in the twilight of this disaster?

Now Bush wants to shove under the door rules to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds.

First off, isn't the conservative crowd big on so-called conditions of employment?

This very much points out their ala carte approach that made them very poor sales people for the concept of morality, sort of like the laugh riot that ensues when Chuckles the radio clown tries to dispense it.

Bush was less interest in affording these kind of protections to government whistle blowers, probably because they were seeking to abort certain Bush policies.

Stuff like this were the building blocks of a basement level approval rating, and a reminder why their inanity will not be missed.

Pretty Women

by 3rd Way

Spitzer's career and family was left devastated immediately after his tryste with "Kristen" was announced. Meanwhile "Kristen" is Manhattan's newest millionare.

From New York Magazine:

"The two songs on her Amie Street profile, which each cost 98 cents, have been downloaded more than two million times, and Dupre will recieve 70 percent of the total profit. "

According to my math that works out to more than $1.3 million. Penthouse and Playboy are allegedly both interested in featuring her on their pages. Our culture astounds me sometimes. The stock market slowed when the news broke, the universal condemnation of Spitzer's action was immediate and appropriate, but now we are passively celebrating the other unscrupulous actor in the affair.

Hillary is right. Our media treats the sexes differently. Gender differences are vast, you can't expect them to be dealt with evenhandedily.