Nick Coleman writes a post about an Indian baseball player, and the usual trolls flock to his comments:

No one in Minnesota draws out the racist pieces of shit like Nick Coleman. He’s a lightning rod for the talk radio haters, and the comment above has (so far) been approved of by 5 out of 6 comments readers.

In fact, Katherine Kersten was so offended by this trash talk she wrote a column about it!

If there’s anything we Minnesotans don’t like, it’s bigotry. Want to be shunned by your friends and neighbors? Try engaging in “hate speech” — hurling vicious slurs at people based on race, religion and the like.

Stunning, isn’t it? Kersten, of course, is not attacking the racist creeps who lurk at the Strib. No, she’s writing about Tony Kushner, a gay playwright who’s gotten in the Twin Cities grill this summer with his new play: “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.”

You may remember the poster from one of my earlier posts.

Kersten, being a radical activist and not a journalist, waited until well over a week after the play finished its run to share her screed.

Well, in this case, the first Wordle was more than good enough. Kersten has never quite grasped the fact that if you use someone’s name enough times, the result is indistinguishable from marketing. Here’s her effort on behalf of Tony Kushner’s play, wordle-ized:

It’s OK Katherine. Lots of your fellow Opus Deiers share your obsessions and would like to discuss them with you over an altar boy late night apertif.

Hell, lets look at this one again, this time in black and white:

Really, there’s no doubt about it. Katherine Kersten is the biggest promoter of the homosexual arts scene in the upper Midwest. I guess it would be hard to not be, given how much time she spends obsessing over porn, gays and non-Christians.

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I actually read three Strib columns today. Garrison Keillor wrote the third.

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In other entertainment news, a 24-minutes longer “director’s cut” of Watchmen is coming out. The original was long, but I suspect the three-hour version will be better.

I watched a lot of “tv” last night, but I can’t claim to be a better person for it this morning.

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It’s summer in the Cities, and the locals go north every weekend to do their summer fetish things at “the cabin.”

I’m not complaining. Traffic is light this morning as those who stay aren’t real big on getting to church. Later in the morning the traffic will pick back up to weekend normal thanks to outstate Minnesota coming to the Cities for a game or shopping.

A lot of gas gets burned on the weekend during a Minnesota summer. I have a recurring fantasy that a Sunday morning meteor strike will come along and close all the highways, stranding the lakers up north. If such an event every occurred, the Twin Cities would instantly become a much cooler place.

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Click on this most perfect of all perfect ‘toons to read this week’s Frank Rich.

Reading Rich it occurred to me that the best way to shut up the base would be to publish a (very long) series of photoshopped book covers. Let’s put Sarah Palin’s face on the covers of all the negative books about Hillary Clinton, and then see what the Fox pundits have to say regarding who’s the most vilified woman politician of our era.

For the record, there’s virtually no photoshopped porno images of Palin online. Throughout the ’90s and early ’00s, it was all but impossible to download Usenet porn without finding it seeded with pornographic images of the Clintons, mostly Hillary with Bill and Chelsea tied for second (in some cases Bill was tied up, in others it was Chelsea).

S’OK. I’m sure some dim bulb at Fox will miss the Dr. Strangelove tribute in the above illustration and will interpret this drawing as Palin spreadlegged being done by an elephant. It’s possible, but at this angle it’s hard to tell if she’s wearing a strap-on.

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The NYTimes comes right out and says it:

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees….

Things are moving slowly, impossibly so but still, incrementally, the noose is tightening. A.G. Holder is “considering assigning a prosecutor to investigate whether government personnel tortured terrorism suspects after the attacks of Sept. 11″ and in this case I’m sure “considering” means “considered and is beginning to implement.”

The glacial pace of legal retribution is frustrating, but necessary. It took until now to rid the DOJ of enough bitter enders to ensure such investigations wouldn’t be internally sabotaged. Books will be written about Barack Obama’s presidency, but the real story will be the Bush-Cheney endgame, and how justice was delayed, if not denied.

Cheney may well be dead before he gets his day in the docket, but his place in history has already dropped faster than the Dow Jones did last fall.

America is not threatened by any foreign power. The danger to us is from within, and the sooner the GOP is discredited, the sooner Americans can begin the hard work of establishing a new second party, one that actually likes America and all the people in it.

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Still reading but I guess this is enough for now.