...that these polyamorists must have an awful lot of spare time to have all these relationships.

I once dated one. I myself was not. Neither were the other three guys she was dating. Pretty much she was the only one that benefited from it. As far as I could tell it ended up a form of ADD. It was simply that she could not concentrate on a single relationship in depth, and so all her "relationships" were shallow.

In the end the others dumped her, she ran to me, and then was gone. In a month I heard she'd gotten married--to yet another I wasn't aware of--and had cut off relations with the rest.

Make of that what you will.

None of them EAT THEIR BABY'S BRAINS.

Let me just repeat this: She ATE HER BABY'S BRAINS.

I don't care why she did it.

Pardon the typo. And another thought: why is it when I hear about this kind of thing it's so often in Texas? What the hell are you folks UP to down there?

I was never on the Apatow bandwagon anyway, and consider his films to be no more than Kevin Smith without the geekery and with more fart jokes.

So, the message is: universal health insurance to keep new mothers from EATING THEIR BABY'S BRAINS? Do all of us a favor who want health insurance: keep your mouth shut in the debate.

Again, there are lots of mothers with mental troubles and they don't. EAT. THEIR BABY'S. BRAINS. This woman is NOT typical, of ANYTHING. Any more than Aileen Wournos was.

I said it long before you mentioned it in a recent essay: whatever the GOP accuses others of is what they are themselves.

...around when JFK got shot?

And in addition: does the right wing deserve to be called legitimate politically anymore? I feel they've now entered an entirely new phase. With old and amoral politicians who want to keep their jobs, and willing to make use of the ignorant, the angry, and the willing-to-be-violent to keep them. They don't care about right-wing ideology, the Washington leaders. They just want to keep their soft and cushy lives and the freedom to screw their mistresses(which they know they only have to invoke God and the Family--no, not "family" but something other you may have heard of--to be forgiven for) and the corporate money that keeps them fat, and if they were tossed out, they wouldn't have that.

So to keep that, if it took the help of the Aryan Nations itself, they'd take it. They don't care what they let loose to save themselves.

...that came to me when I was watching JFK(which is a truly terrible film, don't get me wrong, which makes its case very poorly) the other night, especially how the film goes on about JFK loving black people and helping them, and without him they were without hope.

Well, actually, no. JFK was always more of a retrospective symbol than he was any good to civil rights and only very late in his presidency did he get around to the issue. But here's the most interesting part of that: in fact, it was his assassination that caused the comparatively swift and easy passage of LBJ's Civil Rights bill, which would have been much more difficult without the honored ghost of JFK to shame the opposition. Not to mention the 1964 election. If right-wingers wanted that to fail and they were behind the shooting, they failed miserably.

My point is that this behavior from the right wing usually causes exactly what they fear. It's something to keep in mind as they get louder and louder.

They're Beltway people who have no idea what humans think is funny. It was like watching an older comedian trying to be what he thinks is "cool" for the young people. And quite often, when those older and unhip people try satire, they think it's simply about being mean, offensive, and/or gross. Remember Buddy Hackett's "blue" routines that were mostly about toilet humor? They defined themselves largely by being what Lenny Bruce and George Carlin were NOT, but thinking the gags would appeal to the same audience, misunderstanding that it's just about shock.

"Will any GOP leader denounce the bizarre claim that Obama's plan supports euthanasia?"

Of course not, because they know this works if they just keep at it long enough to make us sick of fighting.

And we always do.