Those who rock

are as follows:

Code Pink, because they know how it's done. In that CNN story, Arnold Schwarzenegger says in response to charges that he is a misogynist, "I think you should just go and talk with all the women I have worked with." Actually, Governor Gangbang, someone did.

While I couldn't resist the Governor Gangbang crack--and neither could Slate, if they still have the headline up when you click that--I have to say that I don't judge A.S. as a potential governor by his choice of consensual sexual activities any more than I did Bill Clinton. If Arnie and the boys all had sex with each other at the gym, girls or no girls, so be it. (Since Gold's Gym apparently didn't allow women in 1977, I wonder if Schwarzenegger just added the "black girl" to the story, when really it was just the guys rubbing muscles. This scenario would fit both Schwarzenegger's denials and non-denials.) And I think the usually cogent Michael Kinsley is off the mark in focusing more on the episodes with women that the women may actually have invited and--God help them--enjoyed over the uninvited and decidedly unenjoyable ones that the Gropenator has apparently inflicted over the years. Group sex is, per se, "disgusting," Mr. Kinsley? Dude, what did you do in college--study?

I joke. But, really, consent is the issue here, and Arnie's team is trying to make it look like their man engaged in a little harmless fun--potentially casting critics as Puritans hung up on sex--when really there are signs of a pattern of violating the consent boundary, which is a much bigger deal, and of viewing women as pieces of meat to be used for "relief" (which no particular kind of sex act indicates, but his comments about using women do).

FULL DISCLOSURE: As a penniless university student, I wrote freelance articles for Oui magazine in its last, waning, post-Playboy-ownership years. Am I proud of this? Well, kind of, because David Mamet also wrote for Oui (much earlier, in its classier days), and so that's yet another thing David Mamet and I have in common. So this isn't full disclosure so much as I'm bragging.

Let's see...who else rocks? Oh, yes...

Alas, A Blog, for linking to the fascinating Global Rich List, a calculator that will tell you where you rank among the world's wealthiest. I'm not trying to drop any hints or anything, but every time someone orders Fair & Balanced, and if I actually kept any of the money, I would technically shoot up about 130,000 rungs on the global economic ladder--each time someone orders the book. I'm just saying is all. Let your conscience be your guide on that one.

Also David Neiwert for telling me about his essay about actual fascism after I wrote a Blogcritics post ironically titled InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds, fascist hatemonger. Oh, and to Atrios for linking to that post, thus driving the Blogcritics conservatives (unaware of their conservatism) stark raving mad over there with the flood of contrary opinion.

Also everyone who follows rocks for linking to Fair & Balanced: Alas, Alas, A Blog (that first "Alas" was me saying "Alas," but the other one is part of the name of the blog), Venal Scene ("the blog of bite-sized plays inspired by the news"), Walk In Brain, darkneslightdarkness, Hantulla, Southern California Law Blog, and The Swamp.