Mr. Wasserman: I started reading your "online" newsletter-rant" (I'm not sure what you call it), last year after you were interviewed on the "Jefferson Exchange" with Jeff Golden, from Ashland, Oregon,  a public radio station.  Nonetheless, thank you! I find a lot of comfort aand encouragement from you. I hope that you might reprise yourself, and make an encore appreance on the exchange before the upcoming election.  I agree that the "Dubya" (or maybe DUD'ya) can be beaten in the fall. Is it really true that the GOP has rigged the "House" so as not to ever lose control again? I think that if there was a real, concerted "movement" to register a whole lot of new democrats from the 50% of the people who do not bother to exercise their franchise, there might be a possible change.  Is this possible? I'm afraid that otherwise, we are left with a hollow, ghost of a republic, and America will then reveal itself to be the"Amerika" of Mr. Orwell, or Cheney, or Citizen Ashcroft, or Minister Rumsfield, or any other modern Fascist/Plutocrat that might stand  before us, waiting for our supplication.

Dear Free Press,

Not only that, there are roughly the same number of women's breasts on this planet as people. How can it be obscene to see something that half the human race actually have two of, and the other half were intimately acquainted with for the first part of their life, and at least wanted to be for the rest of it? And as for the "what about the children?" argument: the younger you are, the MORE wholesome and legitimate a relationship you have with a woman's breast!

It just goes to show what insane priorities we have as a culture. This was at a football game, where grown men bash their bodies against each other with enough force to dislocate shoulders, break bones, and ruin knees for life; happens all the time. No one objects to movies where psychotic murderers and occult horrors and slime-dripping aliens torture innocent people, disembowel them, eat their faces, and lay eggs in their remains. We see heads explode, alien offspring erupt from body cavities, and mortar fire spread body parts to the four winds.

But a one-second glimpse of a woman's breast has the country in an

"The worst president in our lifetime" is how many Americans view George W. Bush.

But Bush is not merely the worst president in recent memory.  He's the worst in all US history.  And he's won the distinction not on a weakness or two, but in at least nine separate categories, giving him a triple trifecta.   

It's a record unmatched by any previous president.  

Let's count the ways:  

TRIFECTA ONE:  Economy, Environment, Education  

Economy:
Until now, Herbert Hoover has been the president most closely associated with economic disaster.  He presided over the 1929 stock crash, and choked while the economy collapsed around him. 

Bush did not preside over the 2000 Nasdaq crash.  But he's turned the biggest federal surplus into history's biggest deficit, which a nervous global banking community sees as a potential weapon of mass fiscal destruction.  Bush has lost more jobs than Hoover.  A top Bush advisor has called outsourcing "just a new way of doing international trade." 

Bush has achieved the economic trifecta by simultaneously collapsing the

Dear Harvey,

        I wish I had the ear of the DNC. They're going about this Bush military issue the wrong way. Why wait for Rove & Co. to find a couple true believers to lie about having served with Bush? Why try to prove a negative? They should:

1.        Find people to establish where Bush WAS at that time. He had to be working on that campaign. He might have been attending meetings, appearing at benefit dinners, dating, partying, whatever. ANYTHING they establish as to his whereabouts and any good time he might have been having while he was SUPPOSED to be on a military base, during wartime, keeping in a state of readiness (e.g. drug & alcohol free at the very least) would be a good example of his lack of responsibility & patriotism, and his elitist attitude that the rules don't apply to rich, powerful people like the Bushes.

        And if anyone argues that Reservists don't have to be in a state of readiness, point out how many have been sent to war by HIS administration.

2.        Get a couple volunteers who served at his base at that time and assemble