At four feet, six inches, the putative senator from the putatively golden state is perhaps the shortest thing to have sat in the United States Senate. So it's no wonder that she publicly demonstrated her Napoleonic complex -- a sense of inferiority resulting in self-hate arising out of short stature -- against a general in the armed forces of the United States of America. Madam Boxer chided the general for referring to her as "Mam" in a Senate hearing. Last I checked, "mam" and "sir" are terms of respect frequently used -- in fact ingrained -- in the military. Even as a civilian, I use these terms all the time in addressing my customers -- even the ones with the toothless grins, who are clearly beneath my intellectual and socio-economic standing.
Madam Boxer publicly yelled at the general because she's insecure about her short stature. Insecure people often lash out against people of strength and power if they are in the position to do so, as in this case of Madam Boxer. This short but girthy thing really needs therapy.
Moreover, the putative senator is a Marin County illiberal, and as we all know too well, illiberals despise the military. There were many instances in San Francisco, in the early 2000s, of illiberals' holding impromptu parties celebrating the beheading of US servicemen.
This incident involving Madam Boxer further underscores the thesis that illiberals are the meanest people in the world, notwithstanding their knee-jerk mantra of "doing it for the children."
How prescient we were when we named Madam Boxer (she prefers it pronounced "Boo-Cher") one of the "'hos of state" in 2006.
-- Jonathan Fairbank, Editor-in-Chief
