If you are doing that much work and good acting you deserve the percocet. I am as liberal as it gets... damn near marxist... but does the solution to every issue have to be a massive database? It is not up to the government to regulate everything, but rather specific things, and it is another bullshit program that could well be ineffective anyway. The only upside is that perhaps it subsidizes US employment.

The solution to drug addiction does not lie in the halls of congress. The fact is, most drug addicts are not addicted to prescription medicine. Some are, and it is not something to scoff at, but do we really need a billion dollar data system to advocate for the 2000 people a year who die from prescription overdoses? no... no. not at all.

None of it makes much sense... neither supposition. Regarding seratonin, since seratonin is significant for feeling 'well-being' and people with seratonin or norepinephrine defficiencies are depressed, clearly you are saying that depressed people are more likely to be cutters... which is hardly shocking. I assume cutters are depressed.

Nor is there any causality that can be attached to the mother-daughter relationship, since a troubled youth is more likeley to have bahavior problems that could cause the strained parental relationship. So there is nothing to suggest that if mothers specifically went out of their way to be closer to teir daughters that any reduction in cutting would occur.

There may be a relationship, but without identifying causality, it is hard to conclude much from the study.

God, we should try and make sure the media inflates this. Since 'character' is such a big deal, then McCain's temper tantrums ought to be big news in the way Howard Dean's scream was front page news.

Okay... i'll agree this is an improvement on what we have, be let us not get into knots about Pax. He spends a good deal of time whistling on about matters of insignificant or offensive tastes. For example, in a bit I am sure you have seen, he goes after George Galloway about his successful attempt to unseat Oona King From her Towers Hamlet seat... "One of the the only black ministers" in british government. While that was a stretch, he failed to mention, while suggesting he (Galloway) had racially baited the neighborhood, that the neighborhood was heavily immigrant and muslim, a certain oversight for the non-Brit viewers at the time, and failing to mention King's pro-war, pro-Blair stance. Mind you, while Galloway may have a way with words, as smitten yanks will tell you about his dressing down of... whoever it was, I am not advocate of his.

Now, to my friends in Tower Hamlets and Bethnal Green: Come on Your Spurs!

Depending on your income, you can get someone to clean your house or apartment on a semi-regular basis. I costs, like 100 bucks, and it has been the best investment of my life. There is nothing like coming home to a clean house. For a measly 100!

And then both of you can sleep with her.

"that it might be the other way around?

That there might have been any number of capable, talented, charismatic men in the past who didn't get to be front runners for a Presidential nomination because of the color of their skin?"

Yes... yes, of course... thats the POINT. Hence, one could say, that identity plays a major role in shaping one's ambitions, political or otherwise. There is not a Ferraro defender who does NOT get this (well, except for the ****s) as indentity is at the core of what she was, presumeably trying, to say.

Frankly, take out the form and delivery of her words, and more importantly the fact that she was a part of the Clinton campaign and I don't think there really would be much to contradict.

To take extreme examples, would Sharpton be who he was if he were not black? Would george Wallace be where he was (ahem, a wheelchair?) were he not white?

Those are people who define themselves by their ethnic identity, to be sure. But if YOUR right that people are dismissed from consideration by race then surely people are considered on that same factor. Block voting is a fact, as we have seen. For better or worse, as a Democrat who happens to be black, Obama has great credibility and voting potential in that population segment. There is no question this has impacted his numbers. In fact, there is not an Obama advocate who does not sing about how he 'brings new voters in,' and one of those voting blocks is indoubitably, black americans.

At least I THINK that's what Ferraro was trying to say. It just happens that Ferraro decided to channel George Wallace... now that I am writing about it, and given that Ferraro works for Clinton, what WAS she thinking?

"To me this doesn't mean that Ferraro, or Clinton, are inherently racist as some claim and as they protest. In fact, I think that's a red herring. I think that this campaign, Clinton and her surrogates, have become simply shameless in saying virtually anything they think will help her" .... Or, seemingly, anything that will hurt her...

"The holding up of McCain, the Republican rival, over Obama was just as bad."

Eh.... Obama has parroted GOP party lines on many occasions.

Besides that, he has also pandered to the idea that social security is in trouble. And then there was his denegration of what 'the struggles of the past' have meant, and mean as he 'was not a part of them.' Were the situation reversed, and Hillary spouted that empty rhetoric Obama and Co. would have hit Clinton hard about dismissing the Civil Rights apex of the 60s and voting rights. There is no doubt about that.