premature infants end up costing insurance companies hundreds of thousands of dollars per infant. And who exactly do you think pays for that?

We do. All of us. Why should my insurance costs reflect the selfish, nay, even stupid choices of parents who have infants they *know* will be premature? Why?

I don't know a single good reason.

This obsession with reproduction may be genetically wired, but it's anti-social when it takes this form.

Ordinarily, in the *natural* course of events, these women would not reproduce at all..and maybe that's for the best, you know? Or, their infants would be born pre-maturely and die...also in the natural course of events. Using *natural* drives as an excuse to have sextuplets, then using highly *unnatural* means to keep those kids alive, is hypocritical, dishonest, and anti-social.

there oughta be a law. But there won't be.

They're presenting a report on the Virginia Tech shootings and they're all smiling like anxious chimpanzees?

Sheesh. These guys really are clueless sometimes.

that Libby is the one going to the slam. Cheney and Bush and Gonzalez and Rice and Addington and Wolfowitz and Yoo and Rumsfeld and Rove are more guilty of far worse crimes than anything Libby ever did.

THEY ought to be doing the perp walk..

Great. We're not going to be done in by alpha males.

We're going to be done in by alpha-wanna-bees; chronological adult males who go around sounding and acting like the worst kind of wimp-ass 14-year-old dickhead. Bullies with tiny dicks. That's the right-wing punditocracy. Beavis and Butthead look like William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer by comparison.

Great. I figured I could at least feel ok about being annihilated by some alpha with a big schlong, and his finger on the button..instead, I'm gonna be vaporized by a deluded geek with a tiny dick and deep feelings of inferiority.

Jesus. Will this never end? Can we put these people back under the rocks they crawled out from?

A good article, Glenn. And feel free to be an amateur shrink. It doesn't take more than a basic understanding of human psychology to see right through these pathetic little mice.

Oh..and, for the record, based on *his* record, George W. Bush is in the same category. A pathetic geek, waving his tiny dick around and demanding he be taken seriously as an alpha male. Sheeeeeeesh. I'm beginning to think that real alphas keep themselves behind the scenes.

And Fred Thompson? Hah! Don't get me started. Personally, I think he's gonna fade like yesterday's cherry-coke, but if he did happen to win the nomination, I sure hope the Dem candidate, whoever it is, slices the guy into tiny pieces...his record just begs for it.

But, then, so did GW Bush's...and the Dems didn't do shit.

the cornetto. It has the wood body of an early wind-instrument, fingers like a flute or oboe, and has a very small cup-mouthpiece.

It has the most unearthly and beautiful sound... the trumpet is often subbed for it in early music, but the trumpet can't begin to mimic the soulful, poetic sound of a well-played cornetto.

For a taste, find anything featuring Bruce Dickey and his Concerto Palatino. They made some great recordings on the small label *Accent* some time ago, and are still active today, mostly with other ensembles.

You can't beat a cornetto in its chosen repertoire.

...you linked to, Glenn, really is outstanding.

Who knew that we would be paying for Vietnam in this way? I'll bet no-one then realized that Cheney and Bush and Norquist and Addington and all the rest of the chickenhawks would take such a terrible revenge for being left out. For being cowards in their own minds.

Christ. Revenge of the wallflowers. The Flying-Spaghetti-Monster help us.

great article!

did anyone really think the Cold War profiteers and their numerous minions and hangers-on would give up all that bounty so easily?

At the time the Cold War ended, there was a lot of talk about just how those profiteers would adapt to the new world.

Well, I think we see how: elect a sock-puppet President, and go right back to the trough.

Tell you what folks, we deserve everything we have coming. We're idiots, and when the financial melt-down precipitates a police-state and the end of the American Experiment, those same dudes (including the Bush family, yo) will be laughing all the way their numerous off-shore bank-accounts.

Christ. What a world.

Surely you jest, man. You think we're safer after six years of Bush and his wars of choice? Are you nuts? I mean, really?

Or do you live somewhere in the middle of the country? I'd feel safer there too.

It's one of the great ironies of this entire mess we're in that the people who oppose Bush and his warmongering are the very people most likely to suffer in the event of any future terrorist attacks. If you lived in New York, or Los Angeles, or Boston, or San Francisco, you wouldn't feel safer. If the enemies Bush has inflamed so intensely ever get another shot at us, it'll be on the coasts.

And it's people like you who will have facilitated that shot, having voted for Bush and his utterly failed policies.

...to the voters of Connecticut. Thanks SO much guys, for putting back into office one of the single most contemptible politicians in American history.

As another poster put it: I sure hope we can return the favor someday. I'm just not sure how we could possible match the man who is Joe Lieberman.