if someone already mentioned this, my apologies...but there is a clear fallacy in the argument.

You're going to EAT anyway. Whether you drive, or not. And you'll probably eat about the same things, in the same quantity, whether you drive, or walk. So, the carbon emissions for food production will be the same, whether you drive, or walk.

Which is why we're all getting so fat in the the US, especially. We keep eating the high-calorie food, but we don't exercise it off.

So, walking is the clear winner: you don't spew *additional* pollutants (including carbon) into the atmosphere..and you don't turn those surplus calories you're going to consume anyway, into fat.

What a fucking dumb article.

Great article, Dr. Cole.

The Bush Administration and its enabler, the GOP, lied its way into this war. Who among us thought that they would *not* lie their way out? It's the only way. In politics, as in most things, when you lie your way in, you almost have to lie your way out, to save yourself.

This is exactly what the Bush Administration and the GOP are doing: lying their way out of this war. What drops my jaw is how the idiot-30-percenters are STILL buying it.

that Murray dude is continuing to claim that an earthquake caused the mine collapse, even after it's clearly proven that the collapse *caused* the tremors!

Talk about sleazy. He's doing the standard mendacious thing. Get an alternate version out there, any version, and muddy the waters. Gah.

I just want to say how much I appreciate the fact that you draw my attention to utterly insane people like the Duggars.

Knowing such people exist in the world keeps my feet on the ground whenever I start to think human beings might actually have a clue.

Then I read about the Duggars, and I realize: human beings are as dumb as dirt, as a class. And the Duggars are posterchildren for us all.

his record means absolutely nothing. The man was a journeyman hitter before he started juicing...no-one can tell me Bonds was going to turn into a hitting machine at his age and in his condition without juicing.

Now, if someone can tell me about all the drugs Aaron was doing, I'm listening. But even if he was doing speed, it would not have had the same direct effects on swing speed, reaction time, and overall power, that Bonds has achieved by consuming enough extra hormones to turn Mickey Mouse into the Hulk.

His record is meaningless. No more. No less. The fuss being made over this is simply pathetic. Object example of denial on a meta-scale.

Say what you will, King, Bonds juiced his way to stardom. How can you possible be happy about that, Giants fan or no? How can anyone support that, let alone celebrate it?

.. I have some trouble respecting your judgement when you write stuff like this.

Bonds used steroids to enhance his performance. It's so blazingly obvious a child would understand it. He *would not have done this* without the 'roids.

I find the whole thing utterly disgusting. And I find this particular blog of yours disgusting too.

And I think baseball is a beautiful game. Soiled by people like Bonds, and McGwire and everyone else who uses hormones to give them something they can't get any other way. I have trouble understanding how you could deceive yourself so completely and actually feel good about this. There's nothing to feel good about.

...of a man who had no idea what the card-reader in a checkout-line was.

There is no word in the language to adequately characterize the Bush family. They have been a complete and total disaster for this country. From Prescott Bush making money on arms deals to both the allies and the Nazis, to G.H.W. Bush continuing his father's affair with the Saudi Royal Family, and up to his hair-roots in the Iran/Contra scam, to his son milking every wealthy contact his family has to make a life for himself, and a fat life at that, this family is the very picture of unscrupulous immorality. They're wicked, all of them, in the classic understanding of the word.

Normally people like the Bushes stay well hidden, away from public view. H.W. Bush was bad enough, but his son has totally exposed the utter rot at the core of at least one elite American family.

The Bushes make me ashamed to be an american. And their wastrel eldest off-spring makes me feel things for which there is no good name.

I had to read the quote three times, just to convince myself that he actually said that.

Anyone who, on the campaign-trail, would say something that stupid, immediately disqualifies themselves from any public office. Do *any* of us really want someone that heedless as President, for Christ's sweet sake?

Now, in addition to all his other questionable qualities we can add abject mental defect to the list.

I still can't believe he said that. What a complete dope.

Makes me shudder to imagine him as President. He'd likely be a bigger disaster than ol' GW has been.