I have to wonder if the true reason the anti-abortion/anti-birth control wingnuts are so vehement with their cause is because they are secretly fearful that abortion is eliminating more whites than those of other races.

Of course, the U.S. government wouldn't want abortion and birth control either since that translates to a dwindling taxpayer base, so I can see why many of them are anti-choice as well.

I guess the politicians should have thought of the latter before sending so many of America's jobs out of the country, and handing them to illegal aliens who pay no taxes.

The bottom line for all opponents of birth control and women's rights would appear to be more economic and racist than religious.

At least, I hope the Bradsheet image is...he really would look better in chiffon.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention coy dogs. These hybrids result from dogs and coyotes breeding in the wild, but they are also intentionally bred by idiot humans. Coy dogs are more fierce and less shy of humans, making them more dangerous than the typical coyote.

I'm still reeling from Frist's confession (from his 1989 book) that he used to "adopt" cats from animal shelters so that he could practice surgeries on them. However, he told shelter workers that he wanted them as pets. In his own defense Frist stated, "I was going a little crazy." Heck, crazy doesn't begin to cover that type of behavior; "Serial killer" would appear to be a better description.

I miss Tim's posts, and I hope he'll soon be back overseeing the War Room.

Because I have never warmed to Manjoo's journalistic style, count me among those readers who wish that someone else had covered this issue. After previously struggling through a few of Manjoo's articles, I now routinely skip his contributions in favor of those from more readable writers, but today I decided to give his work another chance because of the topic. Instead of being able to breeze through the text and come away having been both educated and entertained (as I am with most other Salon writers), it was like wading through mud. Again.

To term Jennifer Aniston as an actress is to insult actresses. Aniston is a screen personality, a "star" even, but she only dreams she could actually act. She is simply the product of PR and TV hype: A screen poseur.

Actresses are persons of the timbre of Cate Blanchett, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Virginia Madsen, Patricia Clarkson, Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, Susan Sarandon, Juliette Binoche and -yes- Meryl Streep (and there are others as truly talented as these women). However, people tend to confuse "starring" with "acting" and the two realities are as different as night and day.

Stephanie, thanks for a most excellent review. Your work is among the top reasons I support Salon through my subscription.

The NYT was just a follow-up, not a leak. From The Economist in 2005:

The private sector bears the major burden of the effort to choke off funding for terrorists. Banks and other financial institutions are scanning their customer accounts more carefully for signs of suspicious people and transactions. Accounts have been frozen and foreign banks have been cut off from doing business in dollars if America is not satisfied that they are properly sharing information.

Millions of prospective and current customers are hampered by tougher compliance standards. To open an account or transfer money these days means numerous demands for identification—a passport or driver's licence with a photograph. Customers have grown used to delays in gaining access to their own money. There are growing requirements for disclosure of detailed information on business directors and funding sources. All this means additional fees. Expatriate executives, international-exchange students and low-wage workers wiring money to their families abroad have been most affected.

http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5053373

The feds better go after The Economist too. And Bush himself ( in 2001) leaked that the feds were into financial transactions:

So I told the American people we will direct every resource at our command to win the war against terrorists: every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence. We will starve the terrorists of funding, turn them against each other, rout them out of their safe hiding places and bring them to justice.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010924-4.html

Looks like Bush will have to be first in line for prosecution for treason before he goes after anyone else.

Is there any way to get books directly to Natae?

And that's all I have to say about that.

Madonna humped everything that stood still long enough for her to wrap her legs around it.

That aspect of her persona was already legend in the East Village before she ever recorded her first album.