This seems to represent one of the most perplexing American of phenomena. Our tolerance of serial idiots. Why is it that we invite them back? Why is it so hard to ruin your reputation?

I don't believe the author is write, regurgitating the hackneyed "short attention span" argument. Something way more complicated is going on than that.

Perhaps we let them come back because we secretly want more. More of the easy, mindless answers they give us. More of the distracting scandal that makes us feel better about ourselves.

The author ignores the 700 lbs. Gorilla in the "train wreck" room: George W. Bush. After all his failures and deceptions, why do people still trust him?

Do we really run from the truth? Or is it that watching their failures verifies our own righteousness? Nader said it best: he would rather see Bush president than Gore, because Bush would prove him right.

All starting with the President who sticks cigars into interns while in the Oval Office and then telling everybody it was Republican's fault.

CR: We are seeing the young/old men of the Nixon White House exacting revenge on the American people during the past eight years, and all you can think about is sex?

Thank you Colorado Right for making my point. You cling to Clinton like your favorite blanket, because condemning him makes you feel nice and secure and morally superior.

Now I'll admit that liberals do the same thing, but it seems like on this clip the right wing won the race to be the first to satisfy the stereotype of a mindless partisan hack.

Think before shooting your mouth off next time, it might actually make our country a better place to live.

You're asking an awful lot of CR, O.

Oh, Bartending Bear! In case you were wondering whether my admonition to "think first between shooting your mouth off..." sank in, you can consider this wonderfully sensitive and thoughtful exchange on my latest clip: Symbiosis between Bush and Ahmadinejad.

Highlights include CR generalizing that Iranians enjoy killing their own children, and me challenging CR to explain to me exactly how he is ideologically any different from an Islamic Terrorist. (So far no luck...)

Check it out. It's fun for the whole family.