Cat hair and kitty litter ALL OVER her apartment (seriously - kitty litter grit in her couch!). Wonderful woman, but I always steered dates to my place instead of hers because I was terrified of the place. It had nothing to do with "fear of oral sex" and everything to do with nasty housekeeping. And I've been just as harsh about guy roomates who were slobs. Sometimes dudes - like me - are just neat freaks.

This meandering, rambling attack on enviornmentalism is about as coherent as my Uncle Bob's periorations on the subject - and hits all the same notes. Of course my Uncle Bob is an alcoholic redneck who thinks that Saddam was behind 9/11 and that Hillary is a lesbian communist. Nice work Salon. I haven't seen rightwing tripe this lame since Joe Conason gave that blowhard kook David Horowitz the boot.

Whoever said that Mormons must be Christians just because they believe in Jesus needs to understand that Muslims believe in Jesus, too, but that doesn't make them Christians either.

Sorry, but the more I learn about the insane and crackpot "theology" of Mormonism, the more I'm convinced it was made up by a bunch of fourth graders on a sugar binge.

I seriously question the sanity and intelligence of anyone who actually buys this claptrap and I absolutely, 100% would NEVER vote for someone who espoused this nonsense, just as I would never vote for someone who believed in unicorns, elves and the ravings of L. Ron Hubbard.

And this has nothing to do with "freedom of religion" because I refuse to acknowledge the validity of LDS as a religion. A cult and a pyramid scheme, maybe, but a religion? Don't be daft. Mormonism is just plain stupid.

Seperation of Church and State or not, Romney's Mormonism is warning signal to me that Romney is a credulous fool. Anyone who believes in this insane farrago of claptrap made up by some upstate New York headcase is an idiot and not someone I want in the White House. I have no problem with Mormons believing their stupdity, but I do not want to be led by one.

Mormonism diverges from Christianity into crazy culthood because it appends the crackpot book of Mormon onto the actual Bible that real Christians believe in. No other Christian sect believes that Jesus retured to North America to preach to the Indians. The Bible doesn't allow for "fan fiction." Sorry, but that's a cult - and a non-Christian one at that.

Either offer to pay off part of their debt or shut the fuck up. Nobody likes a smug a-hole, so what makes you think that a lecture from a pair of smug, debt-free a-holes will be any different.

I should have known. Vegans are the smugest a-holes of all...

Sorry, but the LW was only asking HOW to deliver their condescending lecture, when the real question should have been IF they should do it in the first place. Only smug a-holes wouldn't realize how obnoxious and patronizing their advice would come off.

Like I said, unless they're prepared to back up their moralizing with an actual offer of cash to help their friends get out of debt, then all they're doing is being a pair of smug, condescending pricks. Without any constructive offer to actually HELP, they should just shut the fuck up and mind their damn business.

And so, come to think of it, should you.

Sorry, but your depiction of black neighborhoods is just as ludicris as the one you attempt to lampoon (which, btw, doesn't seem much like the one depicted in the novel reviewed here). The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between the two extremes you present.

I live in New York. I get enough obnoxious real estate and lifestyle porn from every quarter. I don't need it from the funny pages. This sucks cock.

There are too many people on the planet to begin with and the planet cannot sustain the human onslaught for much longer. If you really, really, really want to rear children then there are plenty of kids in need of adoption. Your kids are killing our planet! Babies aren't cute - they're a plague.

Selfish egotistical breeders need to stop having babies and we won't have so many resource problems.

Babies aren't cute miracles. They're a plague of locusts in onesies.

Too many people on the planet and not enough resources. The solution is obvious. Get over it you crybabies. Your reverence for human life is a quaint, outdated conceit that our species can no longer afford. Ebola, Bird Flu, Sars, Marburg, etc would be a blessing in disguise. And that's the ugly truth.

The fist under the beard joke? That's from last week's episode of "Family Guy." Nice one.

Wrong - babies ARE the problem.

Sure our consumerist lifestyle is a contributing factor, but the inescapable fact is still that the human population has reached a critical mass never before seen on the planet - and it simply cannot be sustained.

Either we figure out how to curb our population growth, or nature will do it for us.

Wasn't the whole premise of your original post that non-breeders simply weren't attractive enough to attract a mate and breed with?

I was simply pointing out that lots of folks are much hotter than you are and choose not to breed.

Stop whining and twisting yourself in circles to justify your selfishness and egoism. There is nothing innately enobling about having children on an overpopulated planet.

Get over yourself and stop trying to rationalize your selfishness and egotism.

Seriously.

Kill this shit now.

I just really, really want you to kill Kansas O'Flaherty. It sucks ASS! Until you do, it's absolute suckiness taints everything else in Salon.

Too bad such simple common sense is so generally lacking in the media discourse on race these days.