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Going back to the discussion of yesterday, and at the risk of sounding like a sexist myself, I'm wondering if we can find a diva equivalent of Sarah Palin in a male politician. Palin is not alone in this type of tantrum/staff abuse behavior among female politicians (nor is it confined to her side of the aisle). While I haven't heard first-hand of ...

Noreen, I'll back you up a bit. If I had $150,000 to spend, I think I'd run right out to Escada. Or Prada. Or any other -ada where you could get such gorgeous garments. But—and this goes for any Democrats espousing the same message (Nancy and her Armani, etc.)—I'm not the one shouting an ''I'm just regular folk, not elite'' message. And if I had ...

Emily, you lament that ''a woman running for vice president has to come in for face-to-face ogling by a bore of an actor on national TV.'' I think, as you said in referring to Dahlia's earlier point about not blaming her male keepers for silencing her, that we can all agree that she's a big girl and that she doesn't have to do anything. She went ...

Palin was great—at long as she can stick to her script, which this format allowed. Will the vice presidency allow such confines? The presidency? Most important, does she have the knowledge base to be, as they say, a heartbeat away from presidency? She did not prove that because she didn't answer many questions with substance. So hopefully if she ...

Dana, I kind of agree with you but for different reasons: I don't have much sympathy for Palin, cringe as I might through those interviews at her ignorance on some major issues, simply because I don't think she shows much sympathy for other victims in her political views. I can never get past her providing no exception for victims of rape and ...

Wow, Palin is a pit bull with lipstick. Her speech was good with some killer lines—the one about ''We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about you one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco'' (or vice versa, I'm paraphrasing) will be hard to refute. What struck me most, however, is how much the pitbull theme extended to the ...

To expand on your point further, E.J., that outlawing abortion is also coercive, I've got a question for the GOP party faithful that I've been chewing over since I saw a Minnesota politician (I don't remember her name, but she was wearing a lovely light-yellow sleeveless dress) at the GOP Convention extolling the virtues of keeping government out ...

I've got a bone to pick with Peggy Noonan's assessment of the Democratic Convention speeches in today's Wall Street Journal. Well, two. First, since when is Laura Bush ''the most popular First Lady in modern American political history?'' I know she polls well—as my husband pointed out, she reveals little, and what's not to like about things you ...

When Hillary asked in her speech tonight, ''Were you in it just for me?'' she crystallized for me why I wasn't behind her. I think if you are in it just for her, you're kind of throwing away the election for the Democrats. Hillary has always been polarizing—a lightning rod for right-wingers to organize, unite, and crusade against. Putting her at ...

Some people just still don't buy that Michael Phelps won the 100-meter fly by a razor-thin one-hundredth of a second. Even Slate's own Will Saletan is skeptical, wondering if the sensitivity of the touch pads came into play. I've got to respectfully disagree. I was an extremely amateur swimmer—the highest championships I made it to were zones, ...