This is the first of what I hope will be a series of comments on the columns of the writer who authors books with such remarkably illogical titles as: Treason: liberal treachery from the cold war to the war on terror; and, Godless: the church of liberalism. Not sure why these are illogical? I'll get into that in more depth later, but for now dear reader, you just need to appreciate that the terms liberal and conservative are words without real world meaning. The class (or group) the terms refer to doesn't really exists except in the fantasies of our modern political dialogs which seldom connect to a concrete reality.

This fire breathing dragon lady wordsmith, sometimes referred to as a leading conservative intellectual, Ann Coulter recently wrote about a college professor she didn't like (perhaps with good reason, but that's a whole other story):

And thus, Churchill joined the ranks of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Faulkner and other great writers who use the phrase, "Gimme a break." Perhaps he expresses himself better in "graphic arts."

American taxpayers subsidize the most cretinous, idiotic, hate-filled lunatics in the universe ? and liberals ...

Ms Coulter is here pointing her no doubt well manicured finger at the professor for using the words "Gimme a break.", and sarcastically suggesting such language can't begin to reach toward the likes of such as Shakespeare and other masters of the English language. She follows this up in the next paragraph with her own version of a well turned phrase meant to describe liberal university professors apparently: "...the most cretinous, idiotic, hate-filled lunatics in the universe...".

Actually I think the Bard might have loved this, not because of the wisdom it contained, but rather because it is an excellent example of the common political street language of our time as applied by those who are not interested in intelligent or wise political discourse. Instead their main reason for being is to make crude noises on the way to the bank. Such writers as Ms Coulter aren't really intent on advancing our political life, as much as a kind of exhibitionism meant to sell books and lectures and make one famous.

And then she wonders why the politics of the Left sometimes seems so crass.