* Did Elizabeth Edwards call Hillary Clinton a man in an interview with Salon.com's Joan Walsh? Of course not, but that didn't stop Drudge from suggesting she did, which forced all the other news outlets to do stories about whether she really did or did not.
Sigh. Walsh writes:
This is the last, best hope of the Republicans to hold onto the White House: to brand the leading candidate, who happens to be female, as too mannish, while slurring the leading men -- John Edwards and Barack Obama -- as girly. Meanwhile, President Bush is the swaggering moron who won't ask for directions even though he's 100 miles off course, and the 2008 GOP lineup is a parody of masculinity -- not to mention a Mount Rushmore of infidelity.
I'll say this about Edwards: She did have the balls to go on record and talk about the disconnect some people have with Hillary, namely, wanting her to be both genuine yet, you know, actually have a personality. At the same time, Edwards started a conversation that I'm sure many successful females -- not just lawyers, btw -- have had, that is, how to be a woman and yet not be only that.
* Mama likes: "The Golden State," the duet between John Doe and Kathleen Edwards on his new cd, A Year In The Wilderness. 
* Karen Heller on Posh and Becks: " Victoria resembles a Q-tip with alien boobage." *Snort* Iced tea, right through the nose. What I really like about this column? That she's unapologetic about watching, and enjoying for its own sake, the spectacle. Which is why Karen Heller gets it, while so many around her don't.
