Batwoman

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/06/02/batwoman.reax/index.html

The new batwoman will have a third identity as a lesbian. In addition to being her normal self she will be batwoman and a lesbian who is only out to her friends.

I'm amused. But a bit confused. If the original point of introducing her was to make her batman's love interest isn't making her lesbian ruining that point. I guess one can say that she has grown since her original introduction.

The issue of what happened in 2004 is not an academic one. For the second election in a row, the president of the United States was selected not by the uncontested will of the people but under a cloud of dirty tricks. Given the scope of the GOP machinations, we simply cannot be certain that the right man now occupies the Oval Office -- which means, in effect, that we have been deprived of our faith in democracy itself.

American history is littered with vote fraud -- but rather than learning from our shameful past and cleaning up the system, we have allowed the problem to grow even worse. If the last two elections have taught us anything, it is this: The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting system. If people lose faith that their votes are accurately and faithfully recorded, they will abandon the ballot box. Nothing less is at stake here than the entire idea of a government by the people.

Voting, as Thomas Paine said, ''is the right upon which all other rights depend.'' Unless we ensure that right, everything else we hold dear is in jeopardy.

This is really disturbing. If some thing like this had happened in almost any other country we would be breathing down their necks. Well any other country where we wanted the party/candidate who was cheated to win...

Also it is nice to have hope that we American's possibly aren't quite stupid enough to have reelected W for a second time. But instead were cheated into a crappy president.