Why not just read her book and then make a comment to the blog readers? Anybody can cherry pick pro and con reviews all day long.

Her eyes dilated . Her makeup too over the top PLUS not quite right. Her lipstick Way Way overdone AND you can see the Vasaline on her teeth... Leads me to believe...

We have found Howdy Doody's sister on crack .

Thank you ! I'll be here all week.

Some comments reveal a great deal about the personality of the writer. And in Jessica's Well, I intentionally use the word writer in the singular.

I am guessing 90% of the reviewers did not read the book, but are there to make partisan remarks. Of course I really cant blame them. Perhaps Pelosi should write another book on how she managed to make the house more inept than our current white house administration, a truly remarkable feat.

Sine Nomine, the reason that one reads reviews is to save time. There is a skill in reading reviews, in detecting interested motives. Once I trashed, with reason, a kitchen-remodeling book on Amazon and found a couple of reviews posted right afterward, glowing with near-identical praise. Obvious shills.

But the reviews of Pelosi's book, the bad ones, did not come from the same pen. Writing styles are quite individual.

Except of course here. You've toppled us. We're really all the same person. I am the site administrator, who has a wife and two children. But when I sleep with men it really distresses my wife, but then in my mind she's not my wife. I'm Theocritus then, not the Site Admin. The Site Admin is a stick-in-the-mud with children, and I'm a Gay Blade.

And I really don't know about Walsingham, Shepherd and Ospurt. I keep hoping that one of them will leave a different-colored hair in the comb to let me know what I look like on the days when I'm not Theocritus.

Maybe that's why Bruno acts so coldly some days.

I cannot understand what is up with all these anonymous posters who are so unwilling to fill in the Name box, yet continually accuse the various contributors of JW, who post each under their individual sobriquet (great word Theo.) of being the same person.

It's troll-ish.

Jose Padilla!!!

One more thing.

That picture of Pelosi is grotesque. Her front teeth appear to be equal in length to both the depth of her chin and upper lip. It's like a living street caricature. How odd.

And I think she's had a lot of work done too.

Damn but I miss Our Empress. Mean, nasty, a power-mad control freak. A totalitarian. But the Hildebeest is smart and I can't imagine the country falling apart with her at the helm.

Brook Shield's first movie, Pretty Baby, has a scene in which the madam (it's situated in New Orleans whorehouse) is drunk in bed on absinthe, thinking everything is fine when the bank comes in to repossess. The bailiffs dump the old woman, uncomprehending, out of bed onto the floor. She has no idea why or what happened.

I can see that happening with this clown as the Speaker and the Obamessiah, wreathed in his solipsistic arrogance, in the Oval Office from the Mad Mullahs, who are just misunderstood, right?

What is the difference in commenters making up a moniker or merely using the automatic anonymous?

using the automatic anonymous?

It's chickenshit.

Having a consistent moniker promotes familiarity, which is useful if you want to have any meaningful discussion. It's courteous. It helps to flesh out a personality, the individual, and their unique perspective, which if you frequent a place like this is much more enjoyable to converse with than the random anonymous poster. It helps one connect the dots between the various posts. There may be one Anonymous poster here, there may be ten, only the site admin knows for sure. It also puts a little more conviction behind your thought, even though it is still just a pseudonym, putting a name on your posts says that you have the courage to identify yourself with your thoughts, all the thoughts posted here, old and new, which are really the only thing that defines you here on the lowly comments of this esteemed blog.

Bob, I take my hat off to you.

Amen , Bob.

And a curtsey from here, too.

Why can't you just admit that some people thought Nancy Pelosi's book was wonderful? Anybody can discount opposite views out of hand, it doesn't take any intelligence to claim that anyone who disagreed with your narrow viewpoint must be dead wrong. Surely you can do better.

Why can't you just admit that some people thought Nancy Pelosi's book was wonderful?

I did not say that no one thought it was wonderful. I said that Amazon was censoring non-left-wing views. You might read what I wrote before making comments.

Anybody can discount opposite views out of hand

Read that aloud. While looking in a mirror.

it doesn't take any intelligence to claim that anyone who disagreed with your narrow viewpoint must be dead wrong.

Read that aloud twice. While looking in the mirror.

Surely you can do better.

You want me to buy you a mirror?

Hear and believe. It's not all about you. You have steadfastly refused, like all autoproctological solipsistic liberals, to engage in any sort of debate, preferring, or perhaps only capable of, sniping.

Please. Favor me with the left-wing money shot. This is your cue to whine, "Why are you so angry?"

How's this for a review?

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,976 in Books
Some people may have thought it wonderful, but not very many.

Now here is a book no doubt more wonderful than Pelosi's that all you anonymous folks would probably enjoy.

The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (Hardcover)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3 in Books

Gee, you didn't do any better.

you asked

What is the difference in commenters making up a moniker or merely using the automatic anonymous?

You were given a response, now you drop the issue, why?

The owner of this blogs humor you with bandwidth, could you at least do everyone a favor and pick a name, and stick with it?

Bob,

You don't understand. The reason that Miss Nancy's book is lagging the Obama Nation book is the evil thoughts coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue which emanate in the middle of the night and force people not to buy Nancy's book. It's a conspiracy between the Bu$hitler/Cheney and $.$.Halliburton, and it's oil for money.

Right now Markos Moulitsas at the Kos Kiddies is giving classes on Vulcan Mind Control to keep her tome, which puts James Joyce to shame, from being the Amazon No. One Best Seller. If it weren't for the VRWC (That's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy), all the libraries would burn Henry James and Jane Austen in preference to An Inconvenient Truth and Miss Nancy's book.

I could suggest a nom-de-plume for Anon....The Raccoon...an animal that lurks about at night and robs other people's garbage cans.

Do you recall some months back when a certain man with a hyphenated name babbled on so much that I gave him his own topic and moved everything over there?

I may make a Troll Dump.

I'm sorry Theo , but how dose one make a troll dump? heh heh heh

sorry.

does does does does does does does..heck..duz duz duz duz..this dyslexia of the fingers is a real Bummer and the government won't give me a penny to to get me fixed ! Darn .

Theocritus says anything, and the troll dumps.

A spurned lover perhaps?

What I'm not sure if "Anonymous" is the troll or the scat.

A spurned lover perhaps?

Yeah. Even at my worst I had better taste than that. And anyway said "spurned lover" or the one most likely to be said thing, is now an economist with the State, an alumnus of Rice, Georgetown and Chicago.

But crazy in entirely different ways.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. I sit up at night, shaking. I know what's happening to our tax dollars.

Anonymous reminds me of "a&mgrad" or maybe it was "nativemidlander", sometimes I couldn't tell the two apart, who really just had a deep desire to be one of the JW team, rather than one of those lowly folks who leave comments.

Some commenters do yeoman work, Bob, Otto.

Whereas some throw hissy-fits like constipated toddlers.