Ben Stein is Way Out of Shelf-life.

Yet here he is again - one of the gargoyles of the Reagan years, promising to deliver a way out of our confusion, but merely delivering another new dizziness.

This time he's celebrating and selling an erosion of professionalism that usually signals a culture losing it's clarity of being.

What exactly are the standards when News Programs are staffed by upscale gypsies and carni workers selling glimpses of sideshow freaks - and how could it be otherwise when the ironclad goal is delivering audiences to advertisers - not information to audiences?

Staying rational is hard work. Expelling Ben Stein's ideas is easy as pi.

A Banging, Rocking Washer

...Perpetually Stuck On Spin Cycle: Camille Paglia chimes in, "If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say Hillary is reconstituting the toxic hierarchy of her childhood household, with her on top instead of her drill-sergeant father. All those seething beta males are versions of her sad-sack brothers, who got the short end of the Rodham DNA stick."

"The White House should not be a banging, rocking washer perpetually stuck on spin cycle."

"The men you always see under her are to a person passive-aggressive, sadistic, mean, little, petty beta-male pieces of work who would not naturally succeed in a common male-type hierarchy. By that I mean an environment that values straightforward achievement rather than the darker political arts." - Chris Richard, Agoura Hills, Calif.

"You Cunt"

New Book: McCain Once Physically Attacked Fellow Congressman:
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father," joked the future Republican Party's Presidential nominee

Sure, he's just a boy toy for Cindy, but as he says, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."