Would you be interested in "The Beanie Babies: Then and Now" or "The Sex Life of A Liberal Cocktail Shrimp"?

I think I heard these two guys being interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR "Fresh Air" last week. They carried themselves well, despite her asking them lots of slanted questions that just reframed lefty-media criticisms of the right (much as she did with David Frum and Richard Perle when she interviewed them about "An End to Evil" a few months back).

You ought to be able to listen to the interview on the NPR Fresh Air web site.

Forgot to add that I think Gene Simmons was right a couple years ago when he told Terry, in not as many words, basically that she needed a dose of the D.

Is the D "The dick"?

I'm not sure if that's what Terry Gross needs.

I get the feeling she's not keen on the D.

I saw Terry Gross on Conan a few months back, and I'd have to agree she's probably not into the D, unless it's a double ended one.

Got it in one, Ace.

If you've never read the transcript of the Gene Simmons Fresh Air interview, it's worth seeking out. She was flat-out disgusted with Gene, told him so, and he was throwing it right back at her, telling her "I'll bet you're really fun at parties," and that he hoped she was sexier off the show.

Gene didn't allow NPR to put the audio up on their web site, but the transcript is on LexisNexis, and at least a few people have put copies of it up on the Web.

Thanks for the plug, Ace.

I read "The Right Nation," and I thought it was a terrific look at conservatism then and now. The authors fell flat on their faces (or, more likely, their prats--it's the Brit thing to do) when they said that Ann Coulter was squishy on the abortion issue. I kind of doubt that Ann's particularly squishy about any issue whatsoever. Basically, I think of Ann pretty much the way I think of Hunter Thompson--glad that she exists, but also glad that she lives several hundred miles away. Kind of glad, for that matter, that we haven't met. Although, if I must meet a stranger who's packing heat, I'll take Ann over Hunter any day.

You can hear that interview with Mikelthwait and Wooldridge here:

http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=11/11/2004

John Derbyshire's review of "The Right Nation" is here:
http://olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Reviews/RightNation.htm