I will give it to you that the word "coward" is loaded. My eyes became wide when I first heard that the AG used that word. Then, I read your attempt to condemn his statement and the definition — which made me less concerned.

When your readers calm down (and stop making themselves the poster children for what is known in social phychology as the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct), they should engaging look at themselves and the world around them and have a thoughtful exhange about how we move ahead.

Editorial cartoons almost uniformly relate their message by implication — not by the literal. Thus, in this context, it is highly relevant that the person viewed as most responsible for the legislation in question is Obama — and that he may be viewed, by implication, as the monkey. Of even greater relevance is the historical use of monkey as a reference to people of color.

I can't fall for the "inferiority complex" thing. In case you can't tell, I am much better educated than you. I suggest you wake up and adapt to the world around you (and the need to understand others).

I had a friend who was a physicist (worked at Argonne National Laboratory). If you talked to him about physics, engineering, or anything related to particle acceleration, it was like he was talking a different language (one you could never be bight enough to understand). When he talked about global warming, economics, or foreign policy, it sounded like you were talking to someone who'd been dropped on his head as an infant (except the self-assured attitude that he was the smartest guy in the room was still front and center).

I've listened to the brightest political minds on the Left and on the Right, and I don't find it even a close call. The ones on the Right understand the events and consequences of action (or inaction) far more than their counterparts.

The guy is Stedmanesque.