Today the LaRouchies came to town

Democracy was in action this morning as Lyndon LaRouche's extremists set up a table on Sunset Boulevard near the Starbucks and tried to draw passersby into conversation and then hit them up for a donation. Old men walked up to yell insults from a safe distance, women screamed obscenities from passing cars. The first time we saw the LaRouchies and their card table was thirty years ago in the small town of Wilton, Connecticut. Back then, their sign read, "Feed Jane Fonda To The Whales."

Sorry, Jane, it's The C Word with Gordon Ramsay

Interesting how everyone got in a tizzy because batty old Jane Fonda came out with the "C Word" on The Today Show this morning, simply naming the performance piece that got her involved in a segment on The Vagina Monologues, while less than twelve hours later, chef Gordon Ramsay (who's got a BBC America show called "The F Word") uses the very same "C Word" as a gag in the opening minutes of the first airing of the "Fish & Anchor" episode in the new season of the already bleep-filled UK version of his Kitchen Nightmares (which happens to be the best- and most wittily-written series running in the USA today). Now if Hanoi Jane were Helen Mirren, maybe no one would have blinked.