<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/19301/" source="AlterNet" author="Arianna Huffington">In Praise of Unruly Women</a> talks about Theresa Heinz Kerry, who sounds far more interesting than her husband. In it, she hammers the patriarchal attitude of American media, most starkly pointed up in Newsweek's cover: <iq>Is John Kerry's Heiress Wife a Loose Cannon or Crazy Like a Fox?</iq> The pre-approved talking points about her are either about her hair or about how she pretty much forgets a woman's place. Right now you're probably relatively familiary with her response to a journalist of <iq>Shove it!</iq>. Right up there with Cheney's <iq>go fuck yourself!</iq>. Whereas Cheney has had the last 3.5 years to show us that you pretty much can sum him up with that one phrase, Heinz Kerry, who <iq>a philanthropist who oversees a foundation that gives tens of millions to causes like the environment, healthcare and early education ... grew up in Mozambique, [and] is fluent in five languages</iq>, gives every indication of being more interesting and intelligent than the wet mop we've got for a FLOTUS* now. As Laura Bush herself put it: <bq>I'm not privy to the policy disputes. I'm not over there at the table where everyone is actually formulating specific policy.</bq> Wow. Puts her even lower than her husband, who actually is at the table, though he <i>still</i> has nothing to do with formulating policy. I can't even imagine what kind of conversation these two intellectual titans sustain in the privacy of their home. Probably just a lot of stuttering and awkward silences. <span class="notes">*First Lady Of The United States</span>