There’s was lots for everyone to be talking about last Monday, so it’s probably fine that we all missed the fact that Cindy Sheehan has given up any pretense of being a grieving mother standing with a fist and has just gone totally insane, calling for the US military to pull out of “occupied” New Orleans:

I don’t care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don’t care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don’t care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power.

Apparently, she’s in the middle of a nationwide bus tour to raise funds for her cause (whatever that is. It seems to be more of a confederation of causes, based only on an ability to paint George Bush as the anti-Christ).

I don’t know how these fundraisers are done, but if it wouldn’t put a penny into her coffers, I would love to see a large organized group meet her at every stop, take every available seat and just not react to anything she said in a speech. Not clap, not shout, not react in any way. I think after five minutes she wouldn’t even be talking in sentences anymore, and after ten minutes she’d be incapable of speech. That’s the problem with all that bile — if you can’t hand it off, it just backs up on you.