But if I'm going to dance on the lip of my grave, I want to be sober. Flying a plane cockeyed through a gorge or canoeing a couple thousand miles in the winter don't need to be juiced up with likker.

And getting drunk isn't equivalent to doing Riverdance on the lip of one's grave. It's staggering about one's grave.

But I appreciate your measured reply. Thanks.

Fickle.

And read up on Puritans. Like the Victorians, they get blamed for much repression that they did not practice.

Soy steamers on me!

Frankly, I don't recall many specifics of what you've posted in the past. It's cool that you care about your kids, but you're hardwired to do that. Genetically, they're half you. I'd be more impressed if you also cared about someone not so connected to you, about someone who couldn't reciprocate what you give and gave.

It's also cool that you realize your privilege.

Now, I have to go: business.

No longer read anything posted by an "Anonymous."

Spend less time at Salon. I'm not getting my work done!

...and sometimes all a daddy needs to do to become a monster is nothing while his baby tears up the Constitution.

Torturer.

Killer.

Invader.

Christian?

Yeah, right.

Worst. Voters. Ever.

it'll be a fine thing if they're fingered, prosecuted, and caged.

I don't like abortion.

However, I don't believe that devoted anti-abortionists are blood-free. One can kill by commission (bullets, bombs, and abortions) and one can kill by omission (buying a 6-pack or redecorating a bathroom or living in a house with superfluous space instead of cutting a check for starving kids).

But in the near end, this abortion morality debate won't matter much. A great dying is coming due to our profligate reproduction. Poverty, famine, debt, and death await children being born today. Anyone who believes that God will intervene, that he'll suddenly replace the topsoil, the oil, and the fresh water and widen the Earth will be as dismayed as those who begged for divine intervention moments before the boxcar doors opened at Auschwitz. We must reproduce less, but it's probably too late. We're tipping into a mass grave and those who reproduced without forethought bear the responsibility for the coming mass misery.

...(me)n, (me)n, (me)n?!?!

A helpful tip: Ignore all anonymous comments and these threads are a little easier to read.

...stalkers. Their intent was to be besmirch the reps of the 2 women and it's their reps that will be tainted.

It's pithy and punchy.

I also like that Mr. Kaufman has the spine to engage this topic.

When I contemplate homobigots, I imagine Stephen King's Carrie's mother. However, experience has taught me that not all homobigots have hillbilly hair and get their comeuppance from their telekinetic kid. I look like Annie Lennox, whose career was kickstarted by androgny. Whereas androgyny graces the pages of uber-chichi mags like W and uber-masculine types like construction workers seem to find it sexy, at night, it's not always safe to sport short hair and a lean face. Give me a shadowy street over a well-lit street teeming with drunk college boys any night. Trust me, Mr. Kaufman. Football isn't the last bastion of homo-bigotry. Beer reveals how homobigotry is...everywhere. It's just that sober homobigots have a sober understanding of homobigotry binding them to I-bench-pressed-a-ton Pat Robertson and godhatesfags Fred Phelps, which it does.

...for the compilation.

Recently, a pulpit has had the same effect on many "men of God."

So has Republicanism, where homobigotry has been substituted for controlling spending.

A homobigot is a bag of maggots.

But oddly, globalization is a cure. Corporations will gladly hire a lesbian from India if she's outstudied her straight, white male counterpart in the U.S.

Ain't it cool?

As eyes turn away from you, you get to watch. Try it. It's marvelous. You'll see so much. You'll learn so much.

If so, do your superiors keep slipping you before the camera?

Or do you keep turning the camera to you?

And why aren't your words enough?

You're a writer, but who wants you to be a media personality?

As I've written in the past, writing is your forte as a mechanism for delivering data. It's much more compact than the pinched, self-aggrandizing box of your video thingy. And your responding to a single poster, as if that makes you an agent of interaction, is sad. Your time would have been better spent responding to posters in these threads, as Messrs. Greenwald and Kaufman do, with all due respect, in their threads. There are no coincidences in groups and it's no coincidence that the Salon folks have selected the young and pretty one to stand before the camera and talk about beauty with NO SEEMING self-consciousness of the mealy irony.

SHORTER: You are the thing you deride.

You need to upgrade your pals. Our worldview is shaped by the few who surround us and your worldview is bleak, baby.

Witness what the starless Timelagged wrote: "I wonder if Dennis the Menace went the same route? Then we'd have to add Menace--> Liberal--> Conservative. Unless you're speaking of our CIC in which case it's Conservative---Ultra Conservative----Menace."

That's brilliant.

...one's pounds and pounds of blubber and thus votes Republican, due to Bush's fiscal policies (which, in turn, are due to Bushvoters), the dollar is worth less and less and the gov't prints more and more of those shrinking dollars and bad, bad times are coming, but hey, if you're a rich, white Republican, you at least are bunkered in your enclave, your feudal gated community, and you're safe, right?

Right?

Right?

Wrong.

One wants to finger a single person, to contain the horror, but Bush is due to Bush voters and there are tens of millions of them...and so few have repented their nation-crippling sins.

...and Bullwinkle, the moose.

Oh, how hope (and other parts) rises and falls!

"Deranged neoconservative militarism isn't the solution to nuclear proliferation; it's a cause."