I'd like to note that I thought that dubya inviting his 'double' to stand beside him and speak out loud his (ostensible) thoughts was a brave thing to do. I've seen the double on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno many times and his portrayal of dubya is unflattering- and yes, rude.

What do I think of the reaction to Cohen's columns?   A couple of thoughts, I guess. As Cohen said, it appeared that most of the nasty stuff came from the same blogospheres. (A good many of them may have been Jerry Springer fans, too!)

If a website mocks a person or an event and urges its readers to blanket the person with emails the response can inundate the address. Which is why many people - candidates, politicians of all stripes, newspeople - don't pay much attention to blanket emails, giving far more weight to individuals writing their own thoughts.

I sometimes lose track of the fact that the numbers of readers in the world of the internet are mindbogglingly huge. If only three people, say, in each town or city of the Western Hemisphere read any given column and wrote the author, the response would be overwhelming.

I dunno. I tend to think of the 'far right' as being the illiterate, (I say 'illiterate' by the way, because in my opinion one of the hallmarks of liberal thinking is the desire to see all people be able to read and think and communicate. So there.), rude, hate-spewing, one-size-fits-all, black versus white crowd. I may be wrong. We do know that there is a lot of hate in the world.