I am not a sexist. I am holding Sarah Palin to the same standards I hold George Bush to; sexists are those who have wildly different standards for one gender as opposed to the other, such as the XX cheerleaders who are contorting themselves into knots complimenting the choice of a former sports reporter who thinks the founding fathers wrote the pledge of allegiance, who thinks creationist "science" should be taught in the public schools, who thinks global warming is just a theory, etc. Sarah Palin is indeed, like George Bush, an idiot. They should both be referred to as such.

And again, if her brother in law is a child abuser, that is what the criminal justice system is for. Sarah Palin has no business appointing herself judge and jury and carrying out private vengeance, let alone firing the troopers boss who obviously has abused nobody. As for "protecting the child," How would firing him or his boss keep him from abusing the child? Public officials abusing their power for their own purposes, no matter how well intentioned, are a threat to the rule of law and our whole system of government. I should have thought that the last 8 years would have made that emphatically clear.

As for getting personal, I find it amusing that you criticized me for getting personal and then proceeded to insult me personally. And If you don't like my use of the phrase "estrogen poisoning" remember that the next time somebody uses the phrase "testosterone poisoning." I'm sure that you'll be just as indignant. But regardless, male or female, those who think with their respective sex organs are sexist idiots who deserve public ridicule, and I think that Dahlia Lithwick's drooling over a far-right lightweight idiot like Sarah Palin (when she would have shredded a man with similar views and qualifications) puts her in the "sexist idiot" category.