There’s also an incident in his Mormon temple where Romney seems to have been the cause for a youth whom he was supposed to be mentoring and the youth’s family left the church.

Furthermore, there are rumors that Romney was on the board of a school for troubled kids which made a practice of corporal punishment.

“If some random Anonymous good citizen happened to come across some of the hard drives of certain Bank of America executives, and dropped those in the night deposit slot at Wikileaks, I doubt anyone would mind.”

Didn’t Julian Assange announce last year that Wikileaks had a whole bunch of bank info that there were ready and willing to dump into the public domain just before he got popped? Still waiting.

Remember this little kerfuffle from December 2009?

“We are asking Ellen DeGeneres, Christie Brinkley and other high-profile celebrities who are associated with Komen to demand that no more money raised for cancer treatment be given to Hadassah Lieberman or any other ex-Pharma/Insurance strategists,” said Jane Hamsher, founder of the Firedoglake blog.

Cain is getting the same boost from Repugs that Clarence Thomas got. For them, there is no such thing as sexual harassment and they like that “macho stuff” that puts wimmin in their place. Ain’t no bug. It’s a feature. Besides, they imagine supporting Herman will piss off the Lieberals. Ain’t a bug. It’s a feature.

Candidates are just spokesmodels now. Where’s Star Search when you need it?

“Here’s to murder trials for women who have miscarriages.” I mentioned this to a woman’s rights lawyer years ago and she discounted it out of hand.

The legal retort is for a woman refused an abortion to sue her fetus for unlawful servitude.

I hope that if and when she needs an operation she gets someone with a can opener and an anatomy book and never sees a real surgeon. Courage of her convictions, ya know.

Shirley Sherrod is married to the Rev Charles Sherrod, who was a stalwart member of SNCC. The stories about his quiet courage are legendary. Breitbart doesn’t have a clue what he got into. They are going to chew him up and spit him out.

Both the Sherrods are heroes of the civil rights movement and have faced much worse than a two-bit character assassin.

So that’s why everybody’s been wearing that Elizabeth Warren mask from “V for Vendetta.”

The April 5 Movement in Egypt credit the movie “V for Vendetta” for giving them the idea of setting a specific date in the future as a point of reference. When I heard them speak, they were very clear that they used everything from twitter and Facebook to making sure the taxi drivers knew what was going on.

“But Ralph sees a prettier version of himself mouthing approximations of the things he has been saying for years and all of the sudden he gets starbursts in his pants which hasn’t happened since, well actually, never.”

Knew a Nader staffer back in the 1970s who dished a little about a girlfriend Ralph once had so I would suggest Mr Nader may have done the nasty once or twice before he decided to write a novel about how the billionaires will save us.

Joe McGinniss was born in 1942. Robt McCain is quite a hero to be conspiring in the beat down of a nearly 70 year old man.

I remember having a political discussion with Tibor Machan by the burning Bank of America building in Isla Vista back in 1970. He was a kind of sad joke around the philosophy department at UCSB and has not aged well.

You know who else likes bassets, well, do ya? Dick Cheney, that’s who!

“From our first encounter,” writes Dick Cheney, “when I woke him up by stepping on him, Cyrano and I became close friends.” Cyrano is—sorry, was—a beloved family dog, a basset hound, accepted by the family when Cheney was working at President Richard Nixon’s Office of Economic Opportunity. “I took him along when the girls and I went on our Civil War excursions,” writes Cheney. “I think that Cyrano and I had an understanding.”