rAnn-dom thoughts

Strange, innit, how friends who own trucks suddenly stop answering the phone the moment word gets out that you are changing residences? I finally, as of a few hours ago, acquired an actual desk, upon which my computer now rests. No longer must I write posts while sitting in the half-lotus position on the floor.

Folks can't stop talking about Ann Coulter now that she has made the segue from nasty to nutsy. Everyone seems to be wondering when she's going to grab the hair clippers.

A reader has asked me how I can fairly score her for her hateful remarks, when my own commentary has made her the butt of some rather harsh attempts at humor. I take my cue from Marv's great line in Sin City: "I love hit men. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

Lydia Cornell's book on Coulter is not out yet. It has gone through several titles; the most recent one seems to be BLOGGING WITH THE DEVIL or How to Talk to Ann Coulter If You Must. Her co-author is Texas conservative Dan Borchers, who was forcibly ejected from the Conservative Political Action Conference which landed Ann in so much hot water. They expelled him and kept her: That decision says something about the modern Republican party, eh wot?

Also quite telling are these words from Lydia Cornell:

I personally had suffered through a year of frightening death threats, hate mail, slander, hackers and people coming to our front door - after Ann Coulter posted my home number and private information on her website in retaliation for an article I wrote about her "extermination-speak," Death is Sexier than Sex, to Ann Coulter”. We had to call the FBI after our trash cans were lit on fire. On the flip side, I also received tons of love mail - and a Marine combat vet sent me his Purple Heart for standing up to Coulter. This entire thing took a much more sinister turn, which is described in our upcoming book.

Meanwhile, a publicist sent me a column titled "Is Ann Coulter a Woman or a Man?" by Melinda Pillsbury Foster. Looks like the is-she-or-isn't-she-a-she question is going mainstream. The publicist neglected to include a link to the published piece, so I will take the liberty of reprinting a large chunk of the thing here:

Is Ann Coulter a woman or a man?

The question has grown in our minds over the last ten years until now many of us can't even see her without wondering. It was Dan Borchers who first pointed out that she had an Adams Apple. Others then began pointing out other strange physical features, strange on a woman anyway. I was slow; but then I began to see what they meant around the time her behavior started to shock me. Ann is not lady-like. She says very nasty things about people, things that are hurtful and irrelevant. Some people say she does this to shock and so engage people's minds in a real dialogue, but few believe that any more. It does pay well. It is the shocking aspect that keeps her and her books selling.

It is well known that one of Ann's best friends is Matt Drudge, an out of the closet gay guy who also figures prominently as a NeoCon operative. They hang out together. That is fine, there is nothing wrong with being gay.

Physical characteristics. No kids. Never married. Always glamorous.

As she has aged, between what seems to be an ongoing course of treatments, she looks more and more like a guy. This may come as a surprise to you but men and women are different. Most Liberals like to deny this but hormones do tell. On the bell curve of behavior males and females act differently.

Ann Coulter acts like a man dressed up like a woman. Aggressive, nasty, mean spirited, and entirely focused on getting her own way, no matter what. Ask Dan Borchers about the aggressive behavior.

Personally, I decided she was a man a while ago. Having spent a life time raising little people, children, of both genders (3 girls 2 boys) to adulthood I decided that Coulter was not like any woman I had ever known from PTA or elsewhere. It would be nice if she would have a DNA test.

I would put a question mark beside the word "glamorous." Ann Coulter ain't no Audrey Hepburn.

As for aggressive, nasty and mean-spirited -- well, here is the opening paragraph of a recent Ann column:

Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.

Ah yes. If you are fool enough to believe what virtually all of the world's scientists are saying about global warming, then your vision of paradise must contain lots of starvation and devastation. And, I guess, anal sex.