The hardcore angry liberals (I don't know if that's you) are quite secure in their antisemitic ravings. If Muslims are the new Jews, Jews are the niggers. In fact unless Obama declares nuclear pogrom on Israel his first day in office, 3/4ths of Salon readership will flip out and scribble angrily that they won't vote for Obama for President for life.

Hows that martyr complex working out for you?

wow, that gets you a gold medal in the Blogger Olympics, I think.

Isn't that what the Special Olympics are for?

Every large mammal will go extinct in my lifetime.

They're idiots. Just because you patronize people who are morons doesn't make them not morons. Go ahead be as offended as you need to be. And make sure you buy those penis enlargement pills too. You can afford it now that the barrister representing the former defense minister of Nigeria has placed $4 million dollars in your bank account.

Because of their dealings in China.

what I object to is the Dateline Piano Music from Hell weepy craven 'human interest' stories that are supposed to overshadow the very events they are about. Soon we won't care about the Olympics unless all the athletes have a loved one with cancer, are from the Ghetto, escaped a war zone or got in a yelling match with some red meat eaters.

She is black too, I guess not poor or pathetic enough. Yaaay us! Screw excellence!

They are advertising, they are agitprop. They are the staple of all elections. Stop being childish for God's sake or whatever molten deity you bow to.

I know, let's put a banner on the bottom of all TV ads that show a candidate shaking hands. And the banner must read "Professional Politician, closed course, do not attempt"

If the giant comet comes and wipes us all out, that would be acceptable. Almost liberal in it's tolerance for mother Gaia.

Doctors aren't even allowed to ask you what your orientation, diet, personal habits are. Because that would be offensive. Sure people will die as a result, but ideology trumps all.

If either of your candidates be he McCain or Obama get up on stage and say whatever it is politicians say to get elected and you believe them whatever it is, or the opposite of that when they say the opposite of that tomorrow then you pretty much get the government and the governance you deserve. If you believe that smoking cures cancer or Enzyte really makes your penis bigger, then feel free.

Never go full retard. I don't care what either McCain or Obama has to say on this day or that. I went to Obama's speech in Raleigh the other day. It was fine. A chicken in every pot a car in every garage. Same with McCain: we will win all wars no matter the cost. blah blah blah words words words.

Not only is Obama Muslim, he's a space reptile and a secret member of the Illuminati and is selling crack to white kids in the suburbs. On the other hand McCain eats babies. I believe that. Don't you?

I sure hope the doctors aren't allowed to point that out to their own patients because that would be racist and harm their self esteem.

Let's just randomly pluck the most Oprah friendly human interest story and run with that as if the games were held (but they're not because they might not turn out to be Lifetime Movie Network compliant). There is nothing heroic in failure. Bathos, yes, but heroic? No.

Or do you watch the people watching the events?

For a human/whale hybrid. Or maybe a Sequoia tree.

If a woman was caught watching the games she was thrown from a cliff then and there. So there's that.

Actually cared about workers rights and the healthcode? Isn't having mostly bare flesh around boiling fluids and steam a danger? Isn't having your sweat, skin and nipples all over the place some kind of violation of the "I don't want your slish vapors in my coffee" law?

It's mostly just you and your friends making fun of the people you think aren't as cool as you. That goes for both sides of the house.

would turn off the spam filters on your email so that you're bathed in the shit that political advertising is, anyhow. Who do you think sees this crap? You, and Glenn Greenwalds army of angry sock monkeys scouring the interblogs for those mean evil war criminals who don't agree with your doctrine. What's that? A hundred people? Same with your dopplegangers. Oh Oh I got an email that says McCain can whip Iraqi ass single handed. Ok I wasn't going to vote for him, but now I am!!! Woopie!!!! Huzzah!

It's kind of sad the kind of teapot tempests brew on the interblogs. What otherwise trivial nonsense gets elevated to a divine struggle between the forces of the light and the apocalypse.

Today slashdot reported that California, Ohio and Florida banned e-voting and that thousands of these machines are piling up in warehouses around the country. Why not a mention of that here @ Salon? Why is there almost nothing material covered here besides whisper campaigns about the VP slot, and of course Greenwald's obsessive paranoia about being snubbed by the mainstream media?

I'm afraid that Salon doesn't even pretend to matter any longer, much less do any reporting even if it's the laziest kind. Not even that. It's just hot air and vaguely informed opinions about minutiae and personal vendettas.