You feel Senator Clinton "deserved it". You feel we all deserved answers. I don't disagree.

I just think that high pressure testing would be a good way to evaluate ALL the candidates. What's the matter? Are the men too delicate??

Everyone agrees that Senator Obama would never play the Race Card. (It would be sort of foolish of him, since we've all agreed that he isn't black...) Why not find out? Why not ask former Senator Edwards about his apology for his Iraq vote? Wasn't that a cheap way for him to get out of the responsibility?

Everyone's got skeletons in his/her closets, if they've been in politics awhile, and all of these consummate pros have been. We deserve to hear them defend themselves.

Ignore the anonymous coward who keeps tossing turds into the communal punchbowl. A little more biological accuracy would make these stories considerably less formulaic, more exotic, and believe me, the kids would love it.

Antzz had some good, realistic features (if you ignore the male/female balance and the way they danced...) It did show the Queen-dominated hive society, the tightly coordinated work teams, and the amazing tinyness of ants, which dramatically affected how the environment affected them. A Bug's Life included several other insect species, done reasonably well, too (and provided yet another remake of The Seven Samurai.)

There's no need to drag the old, tired "boy gets girl" Hollywood schtick into everything. If a story takes place in what is basically another world, it ought to reflect that world.

david sugarman, in knocking Paula Radcliffe's time in the New York City Marathon, implies it was because "Oprah slowed her down."

Impossible. Ms. Radcliffe is British.

Don't we also hate America?

Just asking...

Mr. Russert and the Washington villagers are just looking for pillow talk. They're hoping to get some juicy material wherein President Clinton and his wife, the current Senator Clinton, are screaming at each other about Monica Lewinsky or some other "bimbo."

Their copies of The Starr Report are dog-eared, crumpled and - er, "stained." They want new material.

Seriously - do you think Tim Russert or the rest of the DC talking heads are concerned about policy??

The 2008 fall election will include a lot more offices than just the Presidency. Every seat in the House will be on the ballot, about 1/3 of the Senate seats, and need I mention state and local elections? (I guess I must.)

The deal is, you have the opportunity to elect BETTER DEMOCRATS. Ones with a so-called "spine." Ones who run on a position of leaving Iraq, by any means necessary, within hours of when the Congress reconvenes, or whatever it is that's at the top of your wish list.

The only catch is, you have to work for it. Get involved in the state Democratic party, push for particular candidates who look like they could deliver. Support their campaigns.

Oh - sorry. It's more satisfying to just complain about the Dems we have now. And cynicism is always so fashionable, so sophisticated, so worldly. Right?

Sure, in the southern vernacular, "boys" can refer to good old Bubba and his ilk. "Boys" also contrasts with the real masculine article ("Men"), and has been used in a much more derogatory sense toward non-white males of all ages.

So Bill called Hillary's antagonists "boys." Maybe it's friendly, maybe it's not. Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.

Don't forget - it's worked for George W. Bush (the Lesser) for pretty much his entire political life.

... will have a difficult time determining what reality was, back when the Vast Right Wing Echo Chamber controlled nearly all the media. Hundreds of sources will repeat the lies, hatched in Grover Norquist's weekly meetings or Karl Rove's strategy sessions - few, if any, will mention actual facts. How can facts be determined, when only the fantasy and spin are broadcast?

The Notorious W.E.S. observes that "There Was A Sizable Chunk Of The Right Wing that was joyous when JFK was shot. I was a child in Alabama but I remember it."

I was in 5th grade in Wisconsin, and I remember it, too. I returned to school after lunch and a group of mostly boys was laughing and singing about how "he got shot in the head and now he's dead."

Back in the classroom, a black & white television was brought in and tuned to the news coverage. Everyone just sat there, and the teachers were mostly crying. That shut up the young Republicans.

Dallas was plastered with "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters in the days before Kennedy's visit. Apparently, everyone politically in the know realized the level of hatred for him, particularly in the South, for his defense of Negro rights.

That, to me, makes it even more impressive that Texan Lyndon Johnson went ahead with Kennedy's civil rights agenda, after Johnson became President. The extreme right wing (aka the Republican Party) was just coming out of the McCarthy years, when they ruled the nation by fear and intimidation, destroying people's careers and lives with impunity. Now, they approved of (might they have been involved in?) an assassination of a democratically-elected President.

Johnson would have to see himself as literally in the cross-hairs.

That was perfect. It also enabled Louis to feel as if he "won."

Although pathetic to an outsider, this is exactly what many successful political negotiations look like.

"To find even tentative answers to such questions you have to leave the mainstream. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! ..."

It's clear that "the mainstream" is out of touch, no longer relevant, doing more harm than good. We can look for journalists like Amy Goodman to provide the information we need - but then what? What do we do with "information"? Sit at our keyboards and gripe about "The Democrats"?

The mainstream is brain dead. We all know it. We've known it for years.

Then why haven't we been working to replace it?