Understand that I am not complaining about the Wii - I have one myself and I enjoy it (though I wish something had come out this Christmas that really grabbed me). There are a lot of enjoyable games on it.

I am just saying that EA's problems have very little do do with not appealing to 11 year olds (who are not the overwhelming piece of the market they once were). I don't think that the success of the Nintendo Wii has much to do with 11 year olds either - everyone I know that owns one is more like you and your husband; they got it because it was fun to play as a group, including the grownups.

"he appeared to sneak out of the chamber by the back entrance"

Just like he will be leaving office, no doubt!

I always thoguht Colmes was a twofer - an enabling loser.

This has nothing at all to do with politics and everything to do with Obama being a Spiderman comic fan and collector. This is just the ultimate act of fan-service that has ever been commited. It's the equivilent of Jelly Belly playing up the fact that Reagan ate their jellybeans.

Maybe I am reading this wrong, but it does seem to indiacte that higher black voter turnout resulted more votes against Prop 8, it justs seems to claim that the reason was because they were religious, not homophobic (it specifically mentions "controlling for frequency of religious attendance "). So, and I may be reading this wrong, the actual conclusion should be that going to church regularly makes you homophobic.

Is Wolf Blitzer getting stupider, or is everyone else getting smarter?

Anthrax

Moderates want a guy that they used to respect, until he sold out everything to be President and who is not popular with his own party to be the model for the Republican Party in the future? Works for me.

Didn't the infrastructure and public works of the New Deal lay the groundwork for the prosperity of the conservatives beloved and ideal 1950s?

Hey, the Mexican's are just painting the portraits that American's won't or can't. To paraphrase John McCain

"Now, my friends, I'll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you'll go paint Joe The Plumber. Sit there at an easel and look at a picture of him all day and transfer that image onto velvet, while it's burned into your brain . So -- OK? Sign up. OK.

You sign up. You sign up, and you'll be there for the whole day, the whole day. OK? Just one day.

Because you can't do it, my friend."

Best of luck to her, good to hear they caught it early. Hopefully her chances will be even better now, since I assume with Obama in office Pat Roberts has stopped telling his followers to pray that liberal judges die...

I am deeply, deeply sorry, but I could not resist. I have lowered the level of discourse in our nation, and I am ashamed.

What makes me angry about this is that it is once again the street prostitutes - the people most likely to already be abused - who are the focus of this.

The title should proably be changed to Senator Whitehouse. It's a little too exciting right now

And liked it. It's not perfect, but I don't think you could make a movie that mirrors the comic and succeed in any way as a movie. The mediums are just too different. As it is, it's like a talking dog with a lisp. Yes, it has a lisp, but it's still a freaking *talking dog*.

Like some other commentors the thing I missed the most was the newstand vignettes, not just the two Bernards, but all of the characters that cross paths there - getting to know them and their day to day problems adds a great deal to the impact of the ending in the comic.

As for the end, it doesn't bother me too much. Basically any ending other than "talk Dr. Manhatten into periodically teleporting all the world's nuclear weapon program related materials into the sun" makes no logical sense anyway.

Film (in the form of a short clip being mocked by Jon Stewart_ at 11:00 (well, midnight where I live)

How about we look at the artifically inflated "need" to have a degree in the modern world. Many, many jobs "require" a degree to get into, yet the actual performance of the job will never require anything you learned in college. In much of the busienss world having a degree has become a "certificate of seriousness" rather than something you are actually expected to have learned anythign from...

I'll bet you that if suddenly we stopped demanding bachelors degrees for entry level positions you would see college prices start to drop in response to reduced demand.

Understand taht I *do* see the value in a good education, I just think we have come to a point where it has become some sort of abstracted line in the sand with very little bearing on the actual benefits.

that these people can't get past their own prejudices.

The Weetzie Bat books are probably the most lyrical, beautiful books I have ever read. I am constatnly making epople read them and have given many, many copies of Dangerous Angels as gifts.

In these books Francesca Lia Block not only describes a completely loving and tolerant worldview, she manages to make *Los Angles* seems like a magical and wonderful place to live!