Dolly has a special significance for me. My ex-wife and I spent our honeymoon on South Padre Island, and we spent a lot of time exploring Port Isabel, Brownsville, and Matamoros. None of these areas are particularly well-prepared for a hurricane, particularly Matomoros. Then again, preparing for a hurricane is something of an oxymoron. At some point, you just have to board up what you can, leave, and hope for the best.

I imagine the Houston area, being several hours to the northeast along the Gulf Coast, is probably OK. It looks like that area is due for a lot of rain and, hopefully, not much else. Hurrincanes make for great stand-up opportunities for reporters, but there's nothing comical or even remotely amusing about what a hurricane or a tropical storm can do to an area. While there's some amazing about being surrounded by the awesome force and power of a hurricane, it's certainly not a game. People die in these things, after all.s

So, to all y'all along the Texas Gulf Coast...I may not be a fan of living there, and I may no longer be there, but my thoughts are with those of you who do. Hang in there....

On Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY): "She is like the stereotypical -- excuse the expression, but this is the way to -- she's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean?"

On African-Americans: "I don't have a lot of African-American friends, and I think part of it is because I'm afraid that I would be in an open conversation, and I would say something that somebody would take wrong, and then it would be a nightmare."

On the poor: "Poor people are, in fact, lazy."

On 9/11 victims' families: "I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year."

On detainees: "If I were President...our policy is...we're going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we're going to shoot them and kill them, period."

On Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim to serve in the House of Representatives: "What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.'"

So how is it that this (&^%$#@ troll has a high-paying gig on CNN...and a seemingly ever-growing presence as a (distressingly empty and mean-spirited) talking head? Does the man have ANYTHING to offer besides, ignorance, insults, racism, and misogyny?? And how is he able to build a career on the soft sand of ignorance and wingnuttery?

Yeah, I know...WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA??

Of course, looking at this photo, it strikes me that I just might end up in Texas whether I want to be there or not. If things get to be bad enough, I could get an email ordering me to be on a plane within 24 hours...and it just might that I'm heading back to Texas in the middle of hurricane season. Yee frickin' haw....

(CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic has been arrested after more than a decade in hiding, a U.N. war crimes tribunal announced Monday. Karadzic, 63, is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war. He was the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-1995 war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia -- the time of the Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo. He was last seen in public in 1996. Former U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke blamed Karadzic for all the deaths in the three-year war in Bosnia, which had the bloodiest of the Balkan conflicts that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia.... "Without Radovan Karadzic, this thing wouldn't have happened," Holbrooke told CNN.

I've long dreamed of a time when Radovan Karadzic would be brought to justice. Never did I imagine that it would take so long, or that the Serbian government would take their sweet time in capturing one of the few war criminals on a par with Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader ©.

Karadzic' whereabouts had to be an open secret throughout Serbia. My experience with the Serbian police is that there isn't much that escapes their attention. Hey, the country used to be- and in many respects still is- a police state. Official repression was not just habit; it was policy. To say that the Serbian government and it's police spent the past 13 years ignorant of Karadzic' whereabouts strains credibility. They knew; they just didn't want to do anything that would piss off the nutjob Right-wing nationalists that seemed to be everywhere when I was there.

Karadzic was captured in Belgrade...which only tells me that the Serbian government was complicit in his flight from justice. It's not as if he was hiding in a remote mountain village. No, he was hiding in plain sight in Serbia's capitol city- one of the most recognizable Serb war criminals hiding amongst those who think as he does and consider him to be a hero...and most Serbs do.

Remember, it's not paranoia if they really ARE out to get you...and most Serbs firmly believe that the world has it out for them.

Karadzic deserves to be tried, convicted, and executed quickly. If there's any justice in this world, his execution will come at the hands of those whom he subjected to mistreatment and oppression simply because they weren't fortunate enough to be born Serb. I hope that his execution will be a slow and excruciatingly painful one. A war criminal completely devoid of humanity and compassion hardly deserves to be treated with the very humanity and compassion he denied to so many.

Thirteen years later...and Evil is still Evil. Now, where the Hell is Ratko Mladic?

On July 16, the No. 3 syndicated radio talk show host in the country, Michael Savage, made the following statement on autism:

"Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism? ... A fraud, a racket."

Savage went on to say:

"Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is.

What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'"

OK, so it's not exactly a stretch- and certainly not a state secret- to assert that Michael Savage is an asshole, a blowhard, and a world-class DUMB@$$. How this knuckle-dragging troglodyte still retains his radio gig is something that defies rational explanation. If you or I were to be as agressively mean-spirited and gratuitously hurtful as Savage, we'd be out on our butts...and deservedly so. Savage? Well, the more outrageous he is, the more his drooling band of sycophants seem drawn to his perceived (and self-proclaimed) brilliance.

I don't know enough about autism to offer a reasoned and dispassionate rebuttal to Savage. What I do know is that the man's public persona is that of an asshole. Perhaps if he spent some time walking in the shoes of a parent trying to raise an autistic child, he'd have a better idea of what he's talking about. If Savage seriously thinks that autistic children are somehow playacting...well, he's even more astonishingly ignorant than I'd given him credit for.

Unbelievable....