The Vagina Monologues is not one of my favorite pieces--though granted, I've only read it, I have not seen it performed.

But the author of that piece, Eve Ensler, has written an excellent article about why Sarah Palin should not be a role model--I'd say for any woman at all, but certainly not for any woman who considers herself a feminist or a liberal.

Which is more, incidentally, than Hillary has done.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."