Was gonna take issue with your notation of 25 conservatives, because Pandagon calls his list the "Top Twenty" - but then I realized that the writer blended several names into two items and divided the number one spot into one-a and one-b. (Don't think early drafts of that posting did this, incidentally.) A ripely vicious rant, thought I, though the guy indulges in one too many fat jokes for my taste. . .

You should stood your ground, you had me dead to rights. I read another such list somewhere earlier this week, like it, it lampooned figured mostly media figures on the right.

You're right, we sometimes pick on the wrong things -- like calling Bush dumb when the greater problems are that he is rigid, and beholden, and suffers from entitlement syndrome.

And, of course, it is too easily reversed -- the left has no shortage of flaming a-holes.

I also feel that lists, esp. long ones, lose power after the first handful. Even if the vituperation increases, the reader's appetite for it does not. At leadt, mine doesn't.

Being that I am in holiday mode I don't want to have to work very hard on this, but if the fact that someone is "conservative" (based upon what I am not sure) makes them inherently "terrible," then this list reflects more upon he writer than upon those written about. If you are going to name the terrible, then why restrict by some abstract political ideology? Terrible is terrible, and the left has more than its share.

As to Bush, I didn't vote for him and might not again, but he is anything other than "rigid." How can someone who changed the entire course of his regime on a dime on 9/11, flying directly in he face of "conservative" - ie status quo - State Department orthodoxy, be called "rigid"?

It strikes me that Pandagon has less to say about his list's ideological tendencies than he does this group's propensity for intellectual dishonestly, lying and slander. That's something neither left nor right is immuned to, of course, but it's sure feels like there's been an inordinate amount of this crap from the likes of Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan, et al.

I couldn't agree more! I hate hate hate Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. They both make me soooo angry. I can't even understand how anybody listens to or reads anything either one of them says with out ripping out their own hair and screaming "This is such bullshit!!!!!" at the top of their lungs.

Rigidity = the inability to grow and learn. I have been paying attention to this guy for 15 years, and I have yet to hear him ever apologize for anything, whther it is sanctioning racist universities, telling incredible untruths to the American people about his tax cuts, even an apology for being a convicted felon, or for being AWOL from the Alabama Air Guard for two years. Flexibility is not his strong suit.

He is psychically unable to say the very human words, "I'm sorry," or "That was wrong." he gives Lott the secret shaft, but has he apologized for nominating Lott-alikes to the federal courts? Clearly, like Lott, and like many conservatives, he privately fawns over the racist right -- but where is the action to remedy this injustice?

We'll never see it, because that's the kind of man he is -- rigid. If the whole world opposes him on a point, he just gets more resistant. It's hard to imagine that in a good president, a president of all the people.

He is a will-to-power politician, America's first great one. Other countries -- Italy, Germany, Russia, Japan -- know where that leads. But it's still quite new to us.

But this is beyond the scope of Pandagon's pastiche. Pandagon barely mentions the president at all.