Warrior Princess

Will the real Warrior Princess please stand up? I was going through MSNBC and I found the headline: '"Warrior Princess" answers back." I'm thinking to myself, hey cool, they're giving some publicity to Lucy Lawless, even though Xena's been out of production for a while. I love me some Xena... I've written about her before, but I used to watch Xena back when I was an undergrad at Notre Dame and I loved the campy humor that spoke to my repressed gayness even back then.

I open up the article and the find that it isn't about Lucy Lawless at all, but instead, is a reference to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who was nicknamed "Warrior Princess" by someone somewhere along the line. Color me disappointed. I have to say that the prospect of seeing Condoleeza Rice in a leather bustier and skirt shrieking a war cry is the stuff of nightmares. Strangely enough, I also encountered Rice for the first time back at Notre Dame, as she was our Graduation speaker. I would never have imagined that 10 years later she would have turned into... (struggling to be diplomatic...) whatever she is today... I wonder where she'll be in another 10 years? (Cut to image of a hunched figure in a dark cave cradling a picture of George W. Bush, howling "my precious is lost..." )