Mike Nifong should be fired. Mike Nifong should be sued. Mike Nifong should be forever vilified by women who are actually raped.

Right? Am I nuts here?

Nifong is the district attorney who accused three rich white boys from Duke's lacrosse team of rape based on the account of a stripper. Based on her picking these three guys from a lineup of photos. Based on no actual evidence.

I've been waiting to see how this played out. For awhile, I'd say that even if the three guys didn't rape this stripper, they were probably guilty of something.

No more. The charges of kidnapping and sexual assault should be dropped completely. Furthermore, I'd say a tort against these fellows is probably worthy of about $10 million apiece from the state.

It should come from Nifong and the taxpayers who voted him in, as punishment for choosing somebody so separated from the notion of justice. As is pointed out by one of the player's defense attorneys, the job of the prosecutor has never been to win cases.

It is to preserve justice.

This case doesn't peeve me on behalf of women. Sorry, I can't pretend. It peeves me on behalf of men because, frankly, I'm pretty sure that between 10-20 percent of all rape accusations are false, while I'm also pretty sure that a big chunk of rapes never go reported.

The former incites me much more than the latter because I can't empathize with being raped. However, if any woman found me remotely sexually attractive, I might fear being accused of rape.

We're advanced enough scientifically as a nation that DNA evidence will have to be required, I think, from now on to prove any rape. Testimony is no longer good enough. Hell, it was fallacious to prosecute solely based on the victim's testimony anyway because each individual is equally capable of lying.

We're human.

At some point, I think we need to offer this Nifong guy an olive branch and have him help to structure the system better -- not to prosecute rapists but to pursue truth. That's all law-abiding citizens are really interested in. Reasonable people want rape to be prosecuted vigorously. Reasonable people want a safe, secure system in place by which women can report incidents without fear of repercussion or a loss of privacy.

However, not at the cost of justice itself.

As for these three Duke boys (sounds very Hazzard of me to write that), they should just be completely exonerated, sent home and written a giant check. They were 100 percent the victims in this case.

On to happier topics:

The best thing that could have possibly happened to The View was Rosie O'Donnell's arrival. She's in the news every week. Sometimes I'm with her. Sometimes I'm not. Either way, I always have her tuned in because she is what I call watercooler TV.

People talk about what she talks about.

Well, she picked a fight with the wrong hombre ... or did she?

Here's the recap of what went down between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell. She questioned his role as the arbiter of morality, and as you can see on a billion videos posted to the Web, Trump went on a rant that only a second-grader could have mustered.

First, I liked Donald's gesture toward the Miss USA chick. However, I understand his motive was to keep that in the news as long as possible and then to be the "good guy" in the end, so I can't really give him much credit for this.

During the better part of his Apprentice run, I really liked the guy. Sorry, but I think he's a smart dude, and a lot of his knowledge and advice on that show -- I think -- was spot on. However, a ton of smarts can't really cover up an asshole, and he pretty much demonstrated embarrassingly to the planet that he's a giant asshole.

Don't love Rosie. She can be grating at times, but his attack was childish and laughable and terribly immature ... and, well, not worth writing about one more line.