At least we haven't stooped to calling each other ducks!

As vicious and bitter as the charges in this political season have gotten, we have not, it seems, reached the level of political rhetoric in Poland, where the judiciary had to intervene to settle the dispute over whether it was slanderous to refer to President Lech Kaczynski as a duck. 

(Full disclosure: I take this very personally, since Kaczynski was my maiden name.)

UPDATE FROM A READER: 

On the theme of ducks and campaigns, you may have seen this, a delightful book by the authors of "Click Clack Moo."  (I've read it a few hundred times to my almost-two-year-old after getting a paperback copy in a box of Cheerios.)  My favorite line: "He gave speeches that only other ducks could understand."