I hoped it wouldn’t be necessary to point this out, but for the record, I dislike canned, phony laughter regardless of whether it’s coming from female Democrats, male Republicans or transgendered third-party candidates. The only reason I didn’t also write mean things about Rudy Giuliani after his giggly performance on “Meet the Press” last month is that Mark H. beat me to it.

UPDATE: An e-mail:

Ok look, I’m a liberal Democrat and probably shouldn’t even READ this blog, but I believe in knowing what the other side is thinking. But I’ll admit, Hillary’s media “laugh” gets under my skin. Have you ever seen the BBC show “Coupling?” There’s a “theory” put out by the Jeff on the show that pretty much gets to core of the Hillary laugh. From Wikipedia:
“The Prickles, the Blurts and the Headlaugh
These are the sequential behaviours of people obviously telling a lie: nervous facial tingling and blushing, speaking too quickly, culminating in an exaggerated and fake laugh. During Jeff’s explanation of this, the audience sees the sequence of events happening to Sally while she insists that nothing is the matter.”