I found women's health NP's comment to be quite interesting -- especially in light of the fact that during my last appointment I asked my Doctor about this very matter. Rushed to get on to her next patient she simply replied that if the pill I was on otherwise worked for me I should investigate personal lubricants. Not a very inspired or inspiring answer. While I agree that the brief Broadsheet piece -- and perhaps the article that spurred it -- contained some generalizations about oral contraceptives, it is refreshing to finally see someone acknowledging the issue.

Maybe every American should select several words from a NSA hot item menu and use them randomly in every phone conversation and email.

For example, "terrorist" "bin Laden" "car bomb" "Zarqawi" "explosives" "secret service" "hijack" "reactor" "plutonium" "tomorrow is zero hour" etc.

Just sprinkle them throughout your routine eletronic correspondance.

Lucy--chocolates--assembly line. You get the picture.

life is like a box of secret codes: you never when it's all fiction...

Israel is destroying Lebanon with US weapons and taxpayer dollars and your cover story is twattle (no pun).

Salon's willingness to broadcast its increasing irrelevance is astounding.

No subscription renewal from me.

...especially in Ohio:

D I E B O L D

The interesting thing will be watching how they spin the inexplicable 11th-hour evaporation of double-digit polling spreads.

I'm sure Farhad Manjoo will be able to explain it for us.

I always figured the R&RHoF was just so much music business self-congratulatory bullshit, sort of like a retirement museum for geriatric grammy winners.

Never watched an induction ceremony or paid the thing much attention.

I've found no reason to reconsider this.

A perusal of the list reveals lots of obvious omissions. I was positive it would exclude Frank Zappa and was ready to go off, but there he was--1995.

Aside from the already-mentioned Yes, the most glaring snub is Todd Rundgren. Another is Rush.

I don't recall seeing Kiss on there, either. Kiss may be a joke to many, but they're probably among the top 5 bands most influential on rock musicians who are now in their 30s and 40s.

R&RHoF oughta distribute ballots at record stores, concerts, and online, sorta like the baseball All-Star ballot. Fuck the gatekeepers--let the fans decide who matters.

The MSM's first and biggest failure during the period between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq--which Mr. Kamiya neglected to mention--was failure to investigate what actually happened on 9/11.

The transparently bogus case proffered by the Whitehouse was swallowed and regurgitated whole by the MSM, while the most important physical evidence (WTC structural steel) was shipped to China for recycling.

Then the Kean Whitewash Committee Report was accepted so timidly that Gerald Posner didn't even have to write a "case closed."

Brilliant.

It's disingenuous of Scherer to not distinguish Ron Paul of Texas from the rest of the Republican chaffe on that stage, especially since in your photo, Paul is front and center, sandwiched between Mad Dog McCain and Hot Head Giulliani.

Ron Paul in no way fits the "macho-daddy" profile. Nor can he be described dismissively as a "single-issue gadfly" or "well-bred also-ran."

Ron Paul is one of the very few champions of civil liberties and constitutional rights we have in congress. He's anti-war, and has opposed the Iraq debacle from the very start. He's against intervention in Iran. He despises the Bush administration. In fact, the only thing he really has in common with the others is the "Republican" tag.

As a life-long Democrat and sometime-Independent, I'm seriously considering voting for Ron Paul as a write-in, rather than the Democratic nominee.

Hilary: never. Obama: maybe.

We need a cross-party ticket: Paul/Kucinich '08

During a 1994 visit to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, the tour ranger pointed out something obvious: the "hall" we traversed was noticeably dryer and devoid of the giant stalactites and stalagmites that populated the other areas.

The reason, she explained, was that we were directly beneath the visitor center parking lot. The water that normally percolated through the soil in that area, leaching minerals and forming the -mites, was diverted from the parking lot to storm drains.

I love you, man!

You can't discuss the likelihood of extraterrestrial space-faring civilizations without mentioning the Drake Equation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys

We lucked out that the old criminal rotter George I unknowingly appointed a stealth moderate in Mr. David Souter. He's made a huge difference on the Court as a swing voter.

The Repug evildoers sent him a nasty warning back in 2004, but he was not cowed! Let's be careful out there, your honor. We need you more than ever.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/01/souter.assaulted/

How can anything that human shipwreck says, does, or expresses on his simian face really surprise anybody at this point?

nuff said.

(That would be John Irving's "Garp" EJS, not the indie rock band.)

Every CEO, high-ranking executive, and Wall Street player who had anything to do with this crisis should be stripped of their assets and sent to prison.

"This is a virus, with a 100% kill rate. This is a pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen. This is only something that can be fixed after we kill all the players that carry the virus, because the virus only dies when the host is dead. The hosts are the sick financial institutions being run by crooked executives, regulated by incompetent regulators, appointed by blissfully ignorant politicians and at the end of the line is a judicial system that is without power to do anything." ---Mike Morgan

Remember, Bush wore one during the 2004 "debates," not that it did him much good. But warped video actress Palin has more experience with such legerdemain. If she's suddenly articulate, skillfully wielding facts, policy points, and knowledge of international relations, then you know it's a fix.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/29/bulge/index.html