Amazons & Idiots

So I'm driving at lunch today, listening to my bootleg cd of a show Patty did for a radio party and loving her new tune Riding With the Amazons. Before she plays she mentions that she recently heard/read about new findings that the Amazons really did exist. Something about fossils being more closely analyzed and have become proof that these giant, powerful women and a matriarchal society may really have existed. I never doubted it - not since I used to jump around in my underoo's singing the praises of Wonder Woman. I did some hunting and found an article from the UK's Times Online which you can read here. It's really quite interesting.

In other giant women news, I found some dirt on the continuing stupidity and arrogance of Ann Coulter. From the site This Is Rumor Control, I read this:

Canadian Clobbers Coulter: How to Talk to a Fool (If You Really Must)

At last, Ann Coulter had to face a journalist who is more than a blow-dried, talking-head-news-thingy -- someone who actually knows about history -- and Coulter totally flamed out. Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic. Of course, it included Coulter who gloated to correspondent Bob McKeown about how her side is "winning and they're loosing." But in the next segment during a rant about how Canada is disloyal for not sending troops to Iraq -- Coulter was finally exposed -- it just isn't clear from the exchange if she is genuinely confused or purposefully misrepresenting the truth. We'll report so you can decide.

Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"

McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter: "I don't think that's right."

McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"

McKeown: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."

Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."

McKeown: "No."

Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."

McKeown tags out in script: "Coulter never got back to us -- but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam."

ahhh... i love it. she's such a stupid bitch. ooh! forgive! (but she is). i'm sad i missed the audio clip that Al Franken played on his Air America Radio show. But for other stupid fun, check out this picture & caption that was posted on Al's section of the site: