Hey Sean, Electro - about six weeks ago I had the extreme pleasure of watching a recently-returned Iraq vet beat the living crap out of some dumb rightwinger like you who made the mistake of assuming that the Vet was also a rightwinger and a Bush supporter. The thing that sticks out in my mind (aside from how quickly that fat right winger went down like a crying sack of shit) was that the Iraq Vet kept repeating "Assholes like YOU get good men killed" - as he kicked the sorry a-hole over and over again until one of his buddies intervened.

If I were you idiots, I would watch what I say and who I said it around - because loudmouths like you are next. LOL

I think Stephanie is overstating the "consensus" here to stretch a point - Johansson's album is getting mixed reviews at worst, and plenty of favorable ones, as Stephanie notes. Lots of folks like this record. Why is Salon's music coverage so lame and unprofessional? There are plenty of real music journalists out there who would be happy to review these records without having to gin up fake controversy. Also, the headline is kind of ironic, considering it's a record of Tom Waits covers.

... at Ms. Zacharek's description of Carrie looking like a reject from the Sun Ra Arkestra.

I could never understand how Patricia Field got away with dressing Parker in such godawful outfits, season after season. Yeah, I got the joke - even designer-obsessed fashionistas were capable of terrible taste - but it wore really thin by the second season. Couldn't Carrie's friends have staged some kind of intervention?

After all, Emily blogged for the hottest shop in New York and is now writing a cover story for the NYT mag and, one assumes, for the Observer, where all the Denton alums eventually end up. While Rebecca is stuck writing for Salon, and occasionally crackig the film review section of the NYT. Sour grapes much?

Just wondering, have you abandoned the male demographic entirely?

It's fine if you did, but a heads up would have been nice...

Seriously. I do not care about the imaginary problems of priveleged urban white women.

... we can finally get universal health care and convince the Republicans to spend some money here at home, too... let's start planting IEDs on Pennsylvania Avenue and see what happens.

What the hell were YOU reading, dude? Seriously, do you wingnuts have special reading glasses that allow you to read things that the rest of us don't see? You're off your freakin' rocker, dude. Get a clue.

The saddest thing is that prior to the U.S. invasion, this kind of thing would have been unthinkable. Even Saddam's Iraq embraced a veneer of secular, middle class values. What has Bush wrought in the world?

Since when do Republicans hate financial speculators? Republicans = pathetic, whining hypocrites to a man.

Whoa... slow down there a minute! McCain is NOT an Irish name and John McCain is NOT Irish - they're both Scots-Irish, which are the descendents of Scots Calvinists that Queen Elizabeth "planted" in Ulster in one of the first acts of modern "ethnic cleansing." Basically, McCain comes from a long line of oppressors and religious supremacists. Don't ever confuse his kind with REAL Irish people.

... and start waving them at McCain campaign events now? What's good for the goose...

The Cyclone is still here Keef - just a few subway stops from my place. Come to Brooklyn and I'll putcha up.

I can even tell you about the time my brother took me to see the Clash.

Sounds like a great idea to me. Knee-jerk fear of Jim Crow style abuses is no reason to throw out a potentially great idea of keeping irrational, ignorant dumbasses out of the decision making process. IMHO, people like that forfieted their right to vote after the Iraq fiasco. The rest of us are going to be paying for their mistakes for a long time - we shouldn't ever be held hostage by their massive dumbassery again. I say make everyone take a civics test when they turn 18, if they don't pass, they can't register to vote. They can retake it, say once a year, until they pass. But they can't vote until they do. What's so bad about that?

I don't see it being workable unless it was a short, federally-administered test, based simply on an understanding of the Constitution. What's to prevent abuses of anything? Oh my God, stop the world because ABUSES are happening! Meanwhile, I would argue that the current system is a total failure that leads to the abuse of informed people at the hands of fucking dopes and morons.

Also, to those who claim that "autocracy doesn't work" and "democracy may be flawed, but it's the best system we have" - are you sure about that? Seriously. Sometimes I wonder if that's just not patriotic cant that we're all raised to believe. Who says that autocracy doesn't work? Russians and Chinese seem to embrace it and it seems to work alot better than democracy for them.

Meanwhile we Americans have let our "market-based" values dumb us so far down past the lowest common denomonator that we elect an incompetent liar like Bush and let him fool us into a costly, unecessary, unwinnible war in Iraq while questioning the need to rebuild a major American city.

To tell you the truth, I think we stupid ass Americans give Democracy a bad name.