soupy says

The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005
It deserves a mention for just for the fellowing entry:

27. Ann Coulter

Charges: The fact that Coulter is considered desirable by Republicans belies their sick and masochistic nature. We saw Coulter in person this year, and she is a revolting skeleton with a boob job and a grotesquely oversized head, who feeds only on the hatred of her target audience, liberals. Only redeeming quality is that she is impossible to take seriously–really more of a shock comic than a political commentator, whether she knows it or not.

Exhibit A: “I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties.”

Sentence: Confined to Mississippi, forever banned from interacting with the lefty intellectuals she lives to antagonize.

But the rest of the list is pretty fun as well. The picture for Bill O’Reilly (number 10) is fantastic, and I wholeheartedly agree with number 1.

President Bush says

In 2005 the American economy turned in a performance that is the envy of the industrialized world, and we did this in spite of higher oil prices and natural disasters. We’re strong, and I’m optimistic about the future of this economy.

Hm. But then you have these “facts” from the Economic Policy Institute (Even more behind the link.)

Consequently, median household income (inflation-adjusted) has fallen five years in a row and was 4% lower in 2004 than in 1999, falling from $46,129 to $44,389.

The personal savings rate is negative for the first time since WWII.

More than 3 million manufacturing jobs have been lost since January 2000.

More children are living in poverty: the child poverty rate increased from 16.2% in 2000 to 17.8% in 2004.

Households are spending more on health care. Family health costs rose 43-45% for married couples with children, single mothers, and young singles from 2000 to 2003.

I miss my professors’ lectures. Well, the good ones anyway. That is why I’m so happy to have found Stanford on iTunes. Free education!

I just listened to one titled “Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq.” I highly recommend it. Prof. David really sums up my feelings reguarding our current situation: neither party has really been offering up realistic solutions. To get to it click on “Open Stanford on iTunes,” then on “Faculty Lectures, and then click on number 21. The lecture is based on his book by the same name. Of course, I’ll just add it to my reading list of 329372423723 other books.