The Dem party needs strong, smart pols like HRC.

So strong and smart she blows a huge cash and name recognition advantage against the virtually unknown junior Senator from Illinois? Yeah, she's one brilliant politician that Hillary, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory like that!

She makes John Kerry look like John F. Kennedy.

Solar's already cost-effective as a peak power source in places like Southern California, where rates can skyrocket on the spot market during times of high demand (which just happen to typically coincide with hot, sunny weather).

Hillary is running in November with or without the Democratic Party, because like Joe Lieberman it really is all about Hillary.

Well, Hillary and the Wall Street crooks she - along with Lieberman - represents.

Galactica would make any sane person wanna run screaming away from the military, not enlist.

Regarding Heather's article, given their circumstances, I'm surprised it took this long for so many to go so far off the deep end. Even the Cylons have gone mad and turned on one another. And some of Baltar's radio broadcast playing in the background of last night's episode quoted phrases from Hamlet. That's on top of the Dylan at the end of the last season. Supposedly the Final Five Cylons come from Earth. I think the show is working its way toward a deeply disturbing conclusion. It's certainly the best genre show since The Prisoner, and my guess is it's going out in similarly controversial style.

Yeah, we've been hearing about how bad Galactica's getting since, what, halfway thru the 1st season? Hardly.

What I'm liking about the "darkness" of this final season is that none of it feels at all forced. It's largely just the natural progression of the situation the characters - human and Cylon - all found themselves in at the end of the miniseries. Everything they planned, everything they tried to do - human or Cylon - it all fell apart due to factors outlined very early on in the series. Roslin's cancer, missing Cylons, Six, Boomer & Athena falling in love with a human, Hera, Starbuck's destiny, the internal political conflict (human and Cylon). It's all hurtling toward some resolution now. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon their world.

Hey ratkorga, I get what you're saying about the political aspects of their situation. I think that's going to be addressed in the coming weeks to some degree, but I think this season is going to be addressing more existentialist concerns. Almost everybody on the show is having some kind of identity crisis - the Final Five, Starbuck, the warring Cylons, Athena, Boomer, Roslin, Adama, Lee, Baltar, his groupies, everybody.

In a way this is sort of a follow-up to what happened at the end of last season, when their political framework essentially collapsed (or was revealed by Lee to have collapsed). They go thru the motions, but the reality is, they're a gang. And now the individual members of that gang aren't really sure who they are anymore.

There's a lot of talk about destiny on the show now, destiny and gods and god, but I think their destiny might be to discover that they're all in charge of their own fates, and can be whatever it is they choose to be.

We still have the largest military industrial complex

And one that is utterly useless without oil. Jets, ships and tanks don't run on hubris.

BTW, the last two countries in the World that will run out of oil are Canada and the United States, since those two countries have by far the most oil resources than the rest of the World combined.

Proven Oil Reserves, in billions of barrels, from Oil & Gas Journal, January, 2007

Saudi Arabia 260

Canada 179

Iraq 115

Iran 105

Kuwait 99

United Arab Emirates 97

Venezuela 80

Russia 60

Libya 41.5

Nigeria 36.2

United States 21

Mexico 12

The United States is already pretty much out of oil. What's left is difficult to extract at best. Canada has enormous reserves, but they're mostly tied up in tar sands and are going to prove difficult to impossible to fully recover, at a price far higher than we're accustomed to.

I'm not much into yogurt, but Brown Cow's Cherry Vanilla is the food of the gods. Yeah it's full of sugar and hardly lowfat, but it's got cream on the top and makes an excellent desert. It's sweet enough to be a great alternative to ice cream, and you can even make a banana split with it for less than half the calories of the real thing.

I can see why HBO would want to charge more for its content - it's a premium channel. Viewers actually pay extra money to their cable or satellite operator every month to gain access to HBO. Why shouldn't HBO programming command a similar premium at online services like iTunes?

That doesn't apply to NBC, which operates a free broadcast network, plus cable channels which users typically don't pay extra for (or which maybe come as part of some huge $5 a month package of channels). No way should customers pay more for NBC's crap than they do for CBS's crap.

And, as others have pointed out, NBC wanted even more DRM garbage foisted onto consumers. Apple wisely told them to get bent. My guess is NBC/Universal's content will be BitTorrented into oblivion.