Teresa Heinz Kerry sez, "My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called “opinionated,” is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that, one day soon, women—who have all earned the right to their opinions—instead of being labeled opinionated, will be called smart or well-informed, just as men are."

A while back a friend forwarded me an email that had been circulating alleging that Teresa Heinz Kerry had donated millions to fringe groups through a foundation, and she and John Kerry are a communist threat (or something equally ridiculous). He said that he was skeptical of the email and asked if I knew anything about it. I told him that this has been debunked entirely, and then I went on a long rant about double-standards which I won't recount here. But the general point was that it's ridiculous the way that some people still react to a woman who doesn't simply stand by her man, smiling and waving with nothing more than a glazed look from her eyes.

The other highlight from last night was Barack Obama's speech. The man hasn't even been elected to public office yet, and there is already talk about him one day running for president. That's how good he is. My old favorite cable channel, C-SPAN, has the video, and here is the transcript.

Or, as always, you can watch a monkey washing a cat.