Just as a little detox distraction from Coulter pollution, I wanted to comment a bit on Jerry's marvelous Twain quote (and with some authority, being from New Hampshire and all). I was taken by the over-the-top hyperbole of Twain's own rhetoric in caricaturing the over-the-top hyperbolic fool he was describing (and it's not only NH that makes 'em like that; how about Texas, for starters?). I'm sure that Twain was fully aware of the pretentious excesses of his own description. So I think the quote captures something that is always behind the glint in Twain's satiric retina: a ready, even eager, capacity for subtle self-mockery, albeit coyly disguised, which I think is an essential quality for any real humorist, or maybe for anyone who isn't caught in the trap of his own ego. So at the same time he's mocking the lawer from NH, he's equally knocking the guy who is describing the poor dolt. Which takes the sourness out of it, after all, and gets us all to laugh in good humor about the description more than the actual subject of it! That's my take on it, anyway, for what it's worth. BTW, if Coulter had the slightest capacity for self-awareness, let alone self-mockery, let alone subtlety, she'd have checked herself in for rehab a long time ago. Benjamin N. Wise, Ph.D. Keene State College