First his son turns out to be an utter embarrasment and now the old man sells his own integrity down the river. One thing an advocate for civil liberties needs to keep intact is his or her integrity and reputation for honesty.

Glenn: please don't ever do this. Not that I think you would but I never thought Halperin would either.

Morton: the secret to Glenn's success is that he tells it like it is -- always.

I've read Ms. Sey's supporters' comments and they are uniformly weak. Lots of people develop some degree of expertise in one area or another. Athletics is far from the only realm of expertise. So, yeah Jenny, you're not the only one with expertise. Lots of people, including many of the commenters on this board, have expertise of one kind or another so you're not quite as special as you obviously think.

What's more, you don't have to have reached the 99.999th percentile to understand the difference between experts and non-experts. Those who have reached the 98th percentile in some endeavor can look down upon the accomplishments and understanding of almost as many people as someone who has reached the 99.999th percentile. Likewise, those in the 90th percentile can look down on those under them. And the 80th and the 70th...Get the picture?

So, you think you've done gymnastics? No you haven't. Now men's gymnastics is real gymnastics! You wouldn't be able to compete against them. In fact, you can't even really understand what they're doing. Its basically the same thing in every sport: women have no idea what their male superiors are doing. Women gymnasts can't even grasp what the men gymnasts are doing.

At least according to your logic...

I don't let the fact that I was never good enough to go pro as an athlete bother me. After all, most of you athletes are pretty fucking stupid from where I sit, i.e. way up atop the intellectual ladder.

You may think you know what it takes to really understand some intellectual matter or you may think that you can appreciate some great work of weastern literature. But the truth is, on a Seysian analysis, you're all a bunch of pikers, doomed to stumble blindly through life never being acquainted with the greatest accomplishments of your species, of whom you are inferior specimens when it comes to the attributes that really confer merit.

There are cheetahs that can outrun you and apes that can outlift you and dolphins that can outswim you. But there are no mere animals that can outperform a philosopher at philosophy or a mathematician at mathematics etc. etc. No, the distinctively superior human qualities have to do with intelligence, not athletics. And on that score, you all are doomed to go through life at a comparatively animalistic level.

God, you meatheads are so tiresome! It takes forever to get a simple argument through your thick skulls!

...and Iraq is on the other side of the world from our back yard.

Bush set a precedent for much more outrageous actions than what Russia has done in dealing with separatist allies on its own doorstep after being needlessly provoked by Saakashvili.

To understand what's going on ask yourself how would George Bush respond if Cuba launched an attack on Gitmo in the name of national sovereignty and killed a bunch of American soldiers in the process. That's more or less the position Russia finds itself in.

When you launched a WMD hoax, in a presentation to the entire world community, that was quickly exposed as a fraud and when you then fraudulently invoked that hoax as an excuse to invade a country on the other side of the world in an illegal war of aggression that failed to garner UN authorization, you effectively announced to the world that all bets are off, international agreements don't mean jack shit, and the only rule is the rule of "if you can get away with it then it's allowed."

Russia is playing by the rules we created. That obviously doesn't mean Bush caused them to do what they're doing in Georgia it means that he is exactly what Cole said: Putin's ENABLER.

But we know how much you wingnuts like to foam at the mouth pretending to stand up for USA! USA! USA! so you will undoubtedly continue to say that Cole said Bush is to blame for Putin's actions.

KStone said: "Also, your "reversal" echos what I said in my letter about whose Ox is gored and how people often don't hesitate to condescend when they are the "betters". I guess I should thank you for the example so thanks."

hahahahahahahahaha

That's called sarcasm, dunce.

The bottom line is your girl Jenny has taken some small quantitive differences and attempted to inflate them into gigantic yawning chasms of qualitative difference.

EVERYONE knows what it is like to know more about something than someone else. jenny and KStone are not alone in carrying that dreadful burden.

The Apocalypse is surely just around the corner when I favorably recommend Pat Buchanan's take on anything, but as bizarre as it sounds, Buchanan has a column on the U.S. behavior in Georgia and toward Russia more generally that I agree with 100%. Check it out:

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13323

Keep in mind that Obama and his potential running mate Joe "The World's Biggest Cowardly Blowhard" Biden both supported proposals to include Georgia as part of NATO that would have us toe-to-toe with Russia on Russia's border right now.

Democratic cowardice and misguided attempts to look tough have potentially severe consequences. We already know that from Iraq, but starting a new Cold War so Democrats can convince themselves that anyone else thinks they look tough when they say "me too" is utterly indefensible.

Roycommi said, "Iraq had the backing of a large number of the worlds democracies"

Uh, no we didn't.