Here’s something new from our pal Pete who had this to say about Sally Fields acceptance speech  on the Emmy’s last night.

Did anybody hear Sally Field’s acceptance speech at the Emmy’s last night? (She won for her role as the matriarch on "Brother and Sisters.") It was bleeped by the FOX TV censors. Isn’t that amazing and appalling in and of itself? She was saying this when they cut off her sound: "If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any god-damned wars in the first place… we wouldn’t be sending our children off to be slaughtered."

I love Sally Field’s work, and I think FOX has become a pathetic cog in the neo-con machine, BUT… I have to say this to Ms. Field – George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, David Petreus, Paul Wolfowitz and all the rest of the maniacal men in this administration who’ve debased themselves and our country over these last six years all had mothers!

It’s a nice fantasy to imagine a world in which loving, benign mothers forever protected their children from harm, but as long as said mothers (in collusion with fathers) continue to create self-centered pathological narcissists in the many ways that I’ve outlined here before, then their sons will continue to do much harm in the world. Sorry, moms, but we’re all in this together.