Valerie Plame: Freak of the Week

In the short history of this blog, one thing has become glaringly obvious each time I have designated a ’Freak of the Week’: the lack of a woman amongst the names I have picked.  Were men somehow more worthy of the title? I don’t believe so.  They just seemed to show up in a few more precarious situations than women appeared to, from week to week.  Today, after I saw the news coming out of Washington, D.C., I was moved to act in the interest of all female freaks (and I don’t mean a ‘Rick James’ kind of freak.)  I have decided to award this illustrious title to the person that has helped expose the utter selfishness and myopia that characterizes the Bush White House.  

After four long years, the woman at the center of the controversy White House aid Scooter Libby tried to cover up, had her chance to speak on Capitol Hill.  Ex-CIA operative, Valerie Plame, is not just your ordinary black-suited ‘G-man’; she looks like Sharon Stone with a set of Jerry Lewis’ Nutty Professor teeth.  Apparently, she was too attractive for the neo-cons to care whether or not her covert status was compromised when they pushed for the 2003 Iraqi invasion.  It is a shame men in charge of our country allow their personal <ahem> shortcomings to keep them from making sound policy decisions.