I find our government as maddening and infuriating as any woman I know.

That should read “I find our government as maddening and infuriating as any woman I know *does*.”

Yikes… :-)

Arriana: What can the great Greek playwrights — Aristophanes, Euripides, etc. — teach us about the role of women in society?

I’m guessing she’d concentrate on Lysistrata. :-)

Coming from a man, I must say that I wish our government could shed some testosterone at all levels.

It’s remarks like these that don’t really help us understand anything.

The real problem is that we’ve got authoritarians in power who *hate* the exercise of reason. To lump these despicable people “in” with other far-sighted men of conscience does (us guys) a grave disservice.

As a man who seeks a calm, deliberate approach to the problems of the day from our elected officials, both male and female, I find our government as maddening and infuriating as any woman I know.

Wasn’t it Katherine Harris who recently said that “the separation of church and state was a lie?” Clearly, there are certain estrogen-laden people who simply need to be kept out of government for the good of the Republic.

I’ll take Bill Nelson’s testosterone over KH’s hormones any day of the week, even leaving out the fact that one of them is bat-nuts.

I’ve heard otherwise about her with the people she works with. She is manic-like and not very graceful. One minute you are everything she needs and the next minute you “won’t work in this town again”.

I wouldn’t deify her. She has her not-so-public faults too.

I don’t know if Arianna is still here but I wanted to say how much I have appreciated her trenchant analysis of the flaws of our political class writ large in the past and look forward to her book. I also want to share how important she has been to both Valerie and me, most recently urging us to return to California “where you will be among friends.” Joe Wilson

Arianna is spot on – do return to California – preferably the central coast where you are both revered and respected.

HotFlash @ 319

We have a website here for the family business, we get a ton of spam, abt 3,000 per day. Some pretty nasty, but it’s the *volume* that just wears us down. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with trolls, though.

HotFlash, I use a mac and my email doesn’t let any spam through. On the very rare occasion I get one I just flag it as spam and bounce it – that takes care of the problem. I hope you find a way to deal with the spam because it must be hell for a business.

I like Cloudmark which is very smart at catching spam, but doesn’t work with Thunderbird, and either way I still have to clean out the boxes on our server. But sorting spam is Not My Job, fortunately!

BTW, I asked the on the Other Thread, too. Any updates on the Mouseboycott? Have any of the injured parties sent legal flashbangs?

marily @ 287

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Including one named marily.

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