I do like a lot of positions Kucinich supports, but this article convinced me that in real terms I'd never want to see him as president. Oh, it's all so simple if we just stopped fighting wars and everyone would turn the lights out when they leave the room, we'd have no enviromental problems. Well, a world without war is a good idea, only you have to get the whole world to agree to it. Conserving energy is not easy or simple, it involves sacrifice and will cost people money.

Nice ideals, Kucinich, but not very practical. I'll continue to support Obama, even though I don't like some of his "pragmatic" positions, at least they show that he lives in the real world.

"Democrats are salivating over the possibility that Huckabee will be the Republican nominee."

Just because circumstances would make it seem the source of this story is the Romney campaign doesn't mean it's not true. Circumstances would also make it seem that this story is factual, and that is much more relevant news than who leaked it.

Once again Salon is more concerned with the messenger than the message.

It takes a few minutes longer to pee in a stall than to pee in a urinal. That is not the reason women's rooms have longer lines. And men's clothes can be difficult too, if you're wearing suspenders and a sweater. Most men feel uncomfortable in a public bathroom, and rush to get out. Women can find a public bathroom a comfortable place to be providing it is clean and well maintained.

Five hundred years ago there was a group of people who considered themselves the experts (and with good reason) and gained control over vital information people needed. Then a new information technology came along that enabled people to get the information directly from the source and the result was a movement that limited their power severely. The experts were the Catholic Church, the technology was printing and the movement was the Protestant Reformation.

If this discussion proves anything it shows that the simplistic premise that there is one continuum that descibes political ideas as to the "right" or to the "left" is a gross oversimplification. Two leaders we consider the most extreme of the right and left, Hitler and Stalin, actually had a lot in common, were evil in much the same way, and yet are considered opposites.

I suppose the great issue in American political ideaology is individual freedom. Anyone who limits it in ways we find extreme is a "fascist" or even "Nazi." Everyone knows there must be limits, only the right and left disagree on where those limits are.

For anyone interested, I suggest you find the poem The Vowels by the French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, it begins:

" A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,

I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins: "

A question, is it the written character that evokes the color rather then the actual sound of the letter?

It was an interesting tidbit to find out that George Romney was born on a Mormon mission in Mexico, but the assertion that Mitt Romney's roots are not in Michigan but in Mexico, is inaccurate at best. George Romney's parents moved back to the US in 1910, long before there was a Mitt, who grew up in Michigan. This post does strike me as being motivated by religious bigotry. Like so many I am caught in a quandry, I really, really don't want to see Mitt Romney become president, but not because of his religion.

I suppose the subtext here is that football is a privileged category cannot be labelled as a danger to society (unlike gay sex). I reminds me of the doctor who made me feel totally at fault for my knee problems because I am overweight. I couldn't help wondering how many football players who come to him with injuries get to told they are responsible because they engage in high-risk behavior.

What did this ad have to do with race? Because it was on a Spanish language station? Or did they assume "our people" meant Hispanics. My impression is that when labor unions talk about "our people" they are referring to the workers.

Jerry Seinfeld says his show is "about nothing" and basically this is a video of nothing. There is nothing to discuss because there is no content. The interesting part is people's reaction to it. I suppose it is a good work of art because, being nothing, it can evoke nearly any reaction in the observer. I have to laugh at the people who think there is something sexual here appealing to older men. The video shows nothing you couldn't see looking at a girl sitting by herself. If all the spam I get is any indication, there are lots of erotic images of underage girls out on the net.

My motivation, as well as that for most people, would be to cut costs. My electric bills have gone up by 1/3 in the past year, my heating oil bills (and probably gasoline) has likewise gone up by 1/3 in that time. I'd say it's a wash, add to that electic cars would create another inconvenience since they need to be recharged like a cell phone and all in all there's not much to sell them on. That is unless you think that the environmental impact, which most of us will not really notice in our lifetimes, is enough motivation to change American consumers' habits.

Salon is very fond of articles not about news but about journalism, mostly reacting to things other journalists, like the ones on Fox News, have said. If you were expecting news about war crimes, this may have been disappointing but if you take the position that reporting the news is more important than the news itself, then it did a pretty good job of explaining what it's like.