Fascist? Who?

Unemployment remains historically low in the SF Bay area. And in spite of beneficial disruptors like the minimum wage, and destructive ones like caring about Ellen DeGeneres' dog, the labor market tends to find a clearing price:

In other words, somebody is going to take this job.

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Ann Coulter is a professional provocatrix. And I do mean "professional"; she is the Kobe Bryant of pooping outrage just to get people writing about her, and then she rakes in outrageous money -- Kobe paper -- from selling books and delivering speeches.

What's especially remarkable about Coulter's career is how nothing takes her down. At this point, she could call for the restoration of slavery, for all golden retrievers to fight to the death, and for Turkey to finish the job in Armenia, and she'd just sell more books. Like liberals who ignore Bill Maher's unabashed misogyny, Coulter is many conservatives' ultimate guilty pleasure.

This is why, up until the two site hacks over the past week, I haven't mentioned Coulter too much on this here blog. There's about as much point getting outraged about Coulter being controversial as, say, Family Guy making a poopy joke.

I think people comprehend this by now, which is why it's heartening to see how little piss and spittle Coulter's Jew-bashing has generated. Yes, on Sweet Jesus, This Show is Still On? with Donny Deutsch on CNBC, Coulter invited the Jewish ad man to come to church with her, because America is only unsafe and unhappy because Jews and Muslims aren't Christians.

While this impressively focused anti-Semitism got a little attention, what's even more impressive in the transcript is the revelation of Coulter's base philosophy: You know who's happy? Christians! You know why? Because they have religious laws, and they obey them. Obedience = happiness. Liberty = anguish.

Now, hippies of all ages love to cry "Fascist," whether it's at DPT for ticketing them for parking their RV on the sidewalk, or Comcast for turning off their unpaid adult pay-per-view. But Ann Coulter is definitely purely absolutely a fascist.

And that's the last I'll ever write about her.

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The NY Times reports that people who still can't distinguish among 9/11, Saddam Hussein, and the current war in Iraq support Rudy Giuliani for president.

OK, can we stop wringing our meaty hands just because 33% of Americans still think Saddam was behind 9/11? I mean, 36% believe that the Book of Revelation will unfold exactly as written.

In every poll ever taken in the future, a certain percentage of respondents will be ill-informed, lazy, uneducated, dumb, or just crazy. A majority of these people -- thank God (the Jewish one) -- don't vote.