Aaaaaand, we're back. Yep, after a couple of days of no pix, finally, I got out and got...well...at least one. And just in time, too, 'cause...

I'm, um, peeved. Very. Let's just say that it's a good thing I have to type this thing, rather than just being able to vent vocally. John McBush picked a Barbie doll as his VP candidate and people are actually taking this seriously?!? Granted, she's a gun-totin', fetus-lovin', oil-drillin', beauty-pageant-losin', god-fearin' Barbie doll, but... Her claim to fame is she's "...just an average hockey mom..."?!? She's been mayor of a town smaller than the student population at the average community college?!? Oh, wait - she's stood up to "Big Oil". Right. With her hand waving in the air as she screams, "Over here! Drill over here!". If I were a woman in America right now, I'd be looking for blood. This is McBush's idea of a 21st century woman?!? A moron who'd give birth to a kid she knew would have Down's syndrome?!? Does she have any idea what that entails? Not for her, for the kid. Hmmmm, let's see...lower-than-average I.Q. (possibly substantially - always a plus for someone's personal happiness), high probability of life-threatening heart defects (oh, piffle, she says), a dead certainty that the poor kid will be displaying symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's before age 45 (oh, what are a few brain cells, here or there, she winked. Besides, with those heart defects, he probably won't live that long anyway!).

Really, somebody ought to check McBush's meds. Surely there were actual women of substance in the Republican party he could have chosen. Not to mention that, if you're going to make a blatantly false play - "Look! My running mate's a woman! How modern am I, eh?" - on the sexual politics front, you should at least try not to totally screw it up by displaying your contempt for women by picking this ball of fluff.

And what's especially galling is that no one's calling him or her on it. What's her education? B.A.? M.A.? High school? Any training in the law? Economics? History? Foreign relations? I've seen nothing on this at all. Has she got any qualifications whatsoever? Did she even win "Miss Congeniality" in that beauty pageant? Something? Anything?

Like I said, I'm a bit peeved.