let me make a few totally presumptuous connections

between the blond mother with the three year old I saw at an Irvine Community Park today and the fact that the USS Nimitz is steaming into the Persian Gulf. Republican politicians count on the indifference and ignorance of their constituents and their supporters. Witness Orange County, Gucci sunglass wearing, Paris Hilton-channeling citizen mother who let her toddler feed cheerios to a pair of ducks. She and her toddler referred to the one with the brilliant green head as the mommy duck, and to the duller, brown one as the daddy duck. "Give some to the daddy!" she said. The seven year old friend of my six year old told her politely, "That's not the daddy duck. The daddy duck is the one with the greenish blue head, but the mommy duck has a bluish feather on her wing." She looked at him and said in with a flatliner's inflection, "Really?" Her perfectly made up lips and the red riibbons on her high heeled espadrilles matched, and her hair was so beautifuly highlighted that she must have just figured that the more colorful duck had to be the female duck, decked out in the best ducky finery to attract a well-endowed, and financially fit male.

I said in my best National Geographic commentator voice, "Yes, isn't that funny? The male ducks have to win over the female ducks with the colorful plumage." Ha. Ha. Ha.

She confirmed my worst fears about this region of California that we live in -- and I hate to be anti-fashion or anything like that, but the more expensive the outfit, the dumber the wearer...Actually, she looked as if she were trying to get a role on the next Real Housewives of the OC...a show that demonstrates to me everyday that the worst fears of Allan Bloom have come to pass, but not because of the PC Left...It's worked out very well for a political class that hopes to dupe us all into indifference...an unpopular war seems to be in the throes of begetting a disastrous continuation. Animal Planet has replaced stodgy documentaries with TEN MOST EXTREME PREDATORS so you can NOT even learn any natural history from television. You end up with an E! channel count down...TEN BEST CELEBRITY BODIES....