...his own side doesn't trust him anyway. That same Wikipedia entry mentions, at the end, that he is alleged to be an FBI informant. Criminals usually don't care for stool pigeons, and criminals(specifically, domestic terrorists who also may be subject to racketeering charges) is what neo-Nazis are.

It probably explains why he's so loud and overtly threatening. I would imagine that a real neo-Nazi would not be trying to attract so much attention. Not to say that they're not dangerous, just that this guy is merely loud and has no influence, thank God.

I wrote this some time back. Is this enough of a declaration of nakedness?

http://www.helium.com/items/287351-short-stories-fairy-tales

No? Ah well.

I'm not worried about them voting. I'm worried that they will eventually commit violence over their completely fictionally-based paranoia.

Oh wait, some already have.

Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius(tm) once remarked that you can find at least 500 people willing to die for just about any cause, no matter how stupid. ("If Jim Jones could get 900 people to commit suicide, I was sure we could get 500 people to send us a dollar.")

In the case of the CotS, these would be the "Bobbies," the most mindless true believers(who actually believe J.R. "Bob" Dobbs was real) who were to be thrown as snacks to the space gods on X-Day. I imagine that these folks serve a similar purpose in the Republiverse.

A way of showing in the media that women over 40 are still sexy is somehow bad?

So having them so self-conscious they hack up or botox their faces to look young is better? Or perhaps men my age(I'm 40) should go after younger women? (which I've never been into anyway; I think women under thirty are boring)

Look, people use the word "cougar" not to demean but because it's sexy. If a woman were called a "tigress" I doubt she'd mind. Nobody who uses this word is trying to dehumanize women.

That said, it's still a silly word and I don't use it, but please. People finally noticing that women over 40 can be really hot is NOT a bad thing.

Amazing how they saved their outrage for when there was a Democratic president trying to fix the problem, rather than a Republican causing it. Now they'll attempt to pretend Bush was never president. If McCain had been elected, would they be twisting in constipation now?

Ridiculous, and the media should be ignoring it just as they did the anti-Iraq protests. But they're not. Wonder why?

>>The people in the article, and most posters, are Gen Xers, and they have never seen, let alone lived through, an economic downturn.

Let me explain something to you. Firstly, it's the millenials with a sense pf entitlement. When we, and I'm very much a GenXer, came to adulthood there was a massive downturn, in the early 90s. Then later that decade there was the dot-com crash. For those of us in California, this was compounded by the Enron crisis and nailed into place by 9/11.

I went through all these and more(then there was the permanent recession in Chicago most of this decade), but have a hard time remembering any major benefit in the supposed "good" times. I've been struggling now for as long as I remember and even had a marriage destroyed by the effects of the economy.

I also think the writer of this article is irresponsible, stupid, and that Salon is surreptitiously trying to groom itself for travel ads with this piece.

But you know what? Most of us GenXers have always lived in a world where no one gave a crap what happened to us and we had to do for ourselves. So shut the fuck up about all of us feeling "entitled." It's the ones raised rich that do. And the Boomers ALWAYS felt "entitled"--it's their defining characteristic. But unlike your sort, we were never homogenous.

Shut up and enjoy your retirements, Boomers. We have to deal now with the world you sucked dry.

I hope all jobless yuppies use their last money for vacations. There's something beautifully poetic about the inevitable result.

The presumption that the excess male population will turn into rape gangs...highly unlikely. I'm not even going to go into your misandry(this column does often read like you think men don't look here), which is disgusting and which I attribute to ignorance and I'll leave it there. Nor will I go after the Yellow Peril imagery that you conjure up. I'll just leave it at: you sound like Lou Dobbs with lipstick.

To take down your point of threat here: do you know why most people in the world are Chinese? Not just in China. I mean all over the world. Did they spontaneously pop out of the ground?

No, they IMMIGRATED. Which the Chinese have done historically just as much as Europeans ever did. If, like much of Salon's staff, you live in San Francisco, you may have seen signs of this. There were right-wing riots about that, one rather famous and deadly one here once in Seattle.

This is what happens when your prospects are nil in your home country--you leave for another. (well, except Americans for some reason) That's one way excess population gets remedied: it shifts around.

No? Then why are you talking about her?

Seriously, what in god's name makes her worth remarking on?

However, if it still exists: the best store I was ever in was Five Star Video in Berkeley, on University & California. Check it out if it's still extant. BEST video clerks ever.