Unfortunately, another "vast die-off" of humans is exactly what the planet needs.

Consider:

From 3-4 million years ago, it took until 1800 CE for the human population to reach 1 billion worldwide. It took only until 1900 CE to get to 2 billion worldwide. And now, 108 years later, we are closing in on 6 billion worldwide. The "carrying capacity" of the planet has been reached, and human population growth has become a cancer on the planet. Since we refuse to take the necessary action voluntarily and relatively painlessly, the necessary action will be taken and it will be extremely painful when it comes.

Personally, I'd vote for something as fatal as ebola, and as easy to catch - and more importantly, as easy to avoid - as AIDS. The result would be a die-off of the stupid and the ignorant, and a restoration of homo sapiens to actually being "homo sapiens."

I wonder which NeoCon/Fundie hack they'll hire to do the "riting" for her. He'll have to be sure not to use polysyllabic words or her "believers" won't be able to understand it. Perhaps it should be done in pictures.

Who cares what a gaggle of mouthbreathing morons say about anything? According to them, I'm a communist.

But, Fred Hiatt????? If that moron had been running the Washington Post during Watergate, Nixon would be President in Perpetuity.

And Hitchens can just be dumped in a vat of vodka, where he belongs.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the national list includes such things as a 36-hole Frisbee golf course in Austin, Texas, and a "3 million dollar environmentally friendly clubhouse" for a municipal golf course in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Notice where these projects are: Texas and Nebraska. Notice which party controls these states. Yes, Austin may be the reliable blue jewel in a sea of bright red (friends there say living in Austin is like living in the Alamo: you're surrounded by The Enemy), but it's still in Texas.

Further proof why the word "Republican" is a synonym for "hypocrite".

Everyone knows there is no intelligent civilization in Colorado outside of Metro Denver (including Boulder). Greeley's the place where you have to go out of town to get a drink because they're "dry" in the city limits, which is why "formal, legal" Greeley is so small now. And the school there is known as "the second-bersty teacher-training school in America," which goes a long way towards explaining why public education is the mess it has been for the past 120 years (since the Colorado Normal School was first founded - ancestor of the "University" of Northern Colorado).

As for the other guy, he's a good example of why I grew up knowing you laugh at Colorado Republicans, they're so completely stupid.

Heather Halfwit said:

Against this background, NBC's "Kings" looks less like a work of pretentious puffery and more like an imaginative fable, rich with insights into the ways that power -- particularly power that's seen as divinely granted -- inspires and corrupts.

Do you even have a clue what the word "good" means? This carved-in-cheap-cement piece of crap is proof that network television couldn't find the zipper on its fly with both hands on a clear day with a 4 hour advance notice.

Too bad the neighborhood advertiser formerly known as the Los Angeles Times isn't hiring. You could be Mary McNamara's clone for abject moron otherwise-unemployable stupidity.

This is certainly one time where I hope the wingnuts got it right with their conspiracy theory, that today's acquittal does set them back a generation or two. After we turn them into the Unreconstructed Southern White Boy Loser's Party in 2010, we may be Republican-free for the rest of my life.

Unfortunately, dear idiot, the missile "defense" system you are so proud of has yet to knock down anything, and can't even come close unless the target has a radar homing device aboard, something I doubt Kim Il Sung would authorize on a Taepong.

Beyond that, the "threat" doesn't exist - at least not to the U.S. or western Europe. That's because massive retaliation is a threat. Missiles are easily tracked as to their launch site, so the evidence would be very strong as to who did what if something was launched. The real threat is a Pakistani nuke being given to the Taliban, taken to Sinjiang Province by camel caravan, loaded into a cargo container, placed on an 18-wheeler to be sent to Shanghai where it goes on a container ship and ends up in the Port of Long Beach, one container among 20,000. That way you don't have to worry about a guidance system, and there is no "provable" track.

But of course, something that doesn't involve the possibility of you and your fellow racketeers raking off more from a defense contract wouldn't interest a Republican.

But I really thank you for doing this series. Every time you show up, you demonstrate further why only 18% of the country is stupid enough to believe you about anything.