wicked witch of the western world.

Have you heard of Ann Coulter? I don't profess to hating a lot of people, especially those I don't know personally, but I have a strong sense of conviction in my disgust and disdain for that wretch of a woman. Some of the absurd, hateful and outlandish things she's said really make me worry about the state of national ethics, not to mention the general direction of American politics - and I'm an optimist! She made some statements about Jews needing to "be perfected" by the cleansing qualities of Christianity (I'm not Christian, but that's only supposed to sound minimally facetious) and about how women shouldn't vote because their faculties render them malleable to what she might call the deceptive powers of liberalism that made me quiver at the knees; I even spent a couple moments silently praying to some higher power to strike that woman dead before she can harm any more in our world. Her attacks on the wives of the 9/11 victims and on John Edwards are simply frightening things - they're like warm-up words for a planned genocide or something. She's like Hitler reincarnated into an ugly, bony, limp and lame woman, and she hardly even resembles that - a woman. Who could marry that!? (As I understand it, no one, since she's been engaged several times only to have them broken off not too much later.)

One thing I will admit to is being fascinated with her singularity. She has such hate for liberals (or anyone she deems to be liberal enough, like Guiliani, which is ridiculous) that her words seem to almost transform into little puffs of hot smoke that morph into mythological demons as they leave her poisonous lips. It's like listening to Hitler's speeches dubbed over lions attacking innocent goats. Her cracked, harsh voice sounds like utter pain, like her own throat can't stand the evil that looms in her dark, dank head. But like a poorly-made foreign film or reality television or a disturbing quasi-porn flick, it's compelling only because her worldview and beliefs are so odd, so enormously incorrect and stupid that they must be viewed by the rest of the world in order for us to know - to know truly and deeply - what it'd be like if we were devoid of a moral center and thirsty for the light that is consciousness and humanity.

But perhaps her whole shtick is all a joke and a big publicity stunt, at which point it would cease to be even minimally compelling and she would be sloughed to leave relevance. Not that she's very relevant in the political landscape, anyways, but still.