Who decided to let senators representing 2.6 % of the population have control of the Finance Committee in the first place? Not the White House. The ones who control the machinations of finance control everything that happens from Congress down to your local Little League Board of Directors.

Have subscription rates and clicks fallen so low that we have to be subjected to shitty writing and sloppy thinking like this propaganda of Pravda-sized proportions? Tell me ain't so, Joan! Tell me it ain't so!

At the risk of over-articulating my response to the rise of the new imperialists as described by Mr. Reich, I will just say that our nation sucks worse every day.

"Lack of public outrage weakens his hand." I see no outage in this editorial so I guess it's business as usual in the good old USA.

its years of ass-sweat seasoning are a plus

but aren't necessary, they'll eat it dry,

they'll snuffle at it and chomp it embalmed

in crankcase oil -- the stomach of a pig is like America . . ."

Albert Goldbarth, "Alimentary"

from _To Be Read in 500 Years_

When Miss Sarah refuses to say who she voted for, it is most likely a message to the rightwingnuts not to participate in exit polling so that the pollsters will have less faith in their samples. Even though the rightwingnuts think it is cool for the NSA to listen to our phone conversations, they still want the Constitutional right to privacy when it suits their agenda. Knowledge is power and the rightwingnuts are going to hold on to as much knowledge and as much power as possible in order to gain "Dominion." We thought the complete ineptitude of George the Second was scary, but Miss Sarah walked into our midst right out of _The Handmaid's Tale_.

I hope everyone will also read this article by Cintra Wilson on Salon:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/09/10/palin_feminism/

Her arguments against the "feminism" of Palin are far more convincing.

To Trillian4 -- every word is an "invented word."

I hope this turns into an Underground Railroad to Europe for potential professional basketball players and that the University Overseers are losing sleep over the prospect. Do professional actors have to go to college for a year before making their first big payday in the movies? No, because the college playhouse is not a cash cow for the University system, recruiting thousands of future, non-athlete undergrads. I don't know how good Jennings' game is, but I applaud what some would call his mercenary approach. Why should the Overseers be the only ones to make millions off of the Great American Dream Machine? Death to false amateurism once and for all.

In celebration of this auspicious day, I am watching three websites dedicated to pornography, reading my favorite fantasy (King James version), and liberally using every so-called obscenity that comes to mind while I seek to find a lovely woman who would like to join me in further carnal expressions of this glorious day! Amen!

AncientAssyrian writes, "we readers at least demanded some semblance of coverage for the other candidates" in his support of Obama. Will someone at Salon please provide an outline of just what Obama will do if he gets elected President? This reader would find that most helpful. I have listened to Obama several times, and I have yet to hear anything more than promises of unity and change. Are we about to ordain another Emperor without any clothes?

I do not think I have ever been so disappointed in a publication that I once championed as being truly progressive. Why is no one writing about the lack of funding for John Edwards' campaign? Why is no one looking at what is an obvious reason for this lack of funding? Where have Clinton and Obama managed to find so much fatback for their larders? Could Edwards be underfunded because of his withering and accurate critique of the corporate choke-hold on this country? Why does the BIG MONEY go to Clinton and Obama? Could Salon be complicit in this anti-democratic, pro-capitalist effort to suffocate the life out of Edwards' campaign? Come on New Hampshire people -- follow the money and then see for whom and for what you are truly voting.

I know nothing of the chemistry at work here, but if you light a candle a few minutes prior to chopping/slicing, the smoke from the candle neutralizes the onion's eye-watering agent. Never fails in my kitchen.

I had to laugh when I read that, ". . . young professionally oriented women have no problem dating down if the man is secure, motivated in his own field and emotionally supportive." I am a single father who has raised three children, who teaches full-time, who is emotionally secure and supportive, and who would love to meet one of these women. I suspect, however, that SHE only exists as a demographic profile in some psychometrician's spreadsheet.

When the Senator from the great state of Connecticut makes the statement in passing that he is "only a senator," he immediately, and perhaps unwittingly, aligns himself with the Bush/Cheney effort to imbue the executive branch with unprecedented powers. It's one thing when a few good ol' boys down at the coffee shop put their unthinking faith and trust in one person to lead this nation, but when a UNITED STATES Senator subverts his political power, vested in him by the voters of his own state's towns and neighborhoods, one must ask, Who do you serve, Senator? "But I'm only a senator" sounds dangerously similar to "But I'm only a Duke."