It's fun what feelings something like this turns up. I enjoy hearing the DC's but feel they are likably bad, corny, with hokey sentiments and stuff--that drum bit in their recent soldier song gives me shivers it's so awful.

I don't see any big offence, or any problem with their toning down their remarks if people felt they were foul. Or claim to feel that--I think it's disingenuous over-reaction. People do that. D. Quayle courted comparison to JFK and when he was called on it, he huffily felt it was "uncalled for". Nonsense--he called for it, in the first place. Likewise, being president of a free country makes anyone's feelings about you called-for. What is this smallness in some conservatives, in regard to criticism--what does it really mean?

Kim C--I don't know, but it's worth a try.

The whole re-touched photo body-double line of interest is fun too. I think photographers try to make appealing photographs, keep an eye on what they think is right for the time and their audience. It's funny how politics shades into how nude women are depicted--as a kid I recall the only place you could find pictures of ordinary naked women were in books about witchcraft and stuff. Hm. Then I was surprised and unprepared for how people feel so strongly about women shaving--I hardly noticed, the thing of it escapes me. I guess if someone was really unusually hairy it might strike me, but then, many women feel that way about guys too.