"the nation we now know as Britain was created by the Anglo Saxons... "

Riiighht. Just them.

No help from the Celts, who jump started agriculture; the Romans (fro all over the Empire, as well as the Romanized Britons) who created roads, aquifiers, civic government, and several decades of relative peace; the Normans (Frankish/Vikings), who created a (relatively speaking!) stable monarchy, the Magna Carta, and the beginnings of a parliamentary system; the Germans and the Dutch of the 17th and 18th century (who arrived with William of Orange and George of Hannover), who helped spread greater religious tolerance and the ideas of the Enlightenment.

Just what is an Enlglishman? What is Englishness? Certainly nothing that can be determined by racial purity.

And grosser comments.

I'd need to look at transcripts for all the speeches before crying plagiarism. Though Palin's use of "screw" and "pussyfoot" seem unusual for her personal faux-folksy vocabulary.

At the moment, I'm willing to assume it's simply a bankruptcy of original ideas that created the eerie similarities between the speeches. After all, how many ways are there to say "We hate DEmocrats, and poor people" and "give us more tax cuts for the wealthy"?

to get this crossed off the list.

Roeder might be nuttier than a gift box from Harry and David. But he didn't get the idea to kill Dr Tiller in a vacuum. He followed the advice of the forced-birther activists to the "logical" conclusion. For Operation Rescue at al to deny any connection or responsibility for the seeds they planted in Roeder's brain, is one more legacy of Bush-era politics: screw everything up, and thenshrug.

Clearly I skipped the earlier comments. Several great minds thought alike on this.

just pee on your garden.

my point is that if you are already a close relative to someone (parent, child, sibling, etc), there are many ways you can receive benefits (hospital visitation, power of attorney, insurance coverage, etc), without needing to get married.

And if you want to have an official document that certifies your emotional relationship to someone (as many gay and straight couples do, which is why the fight is about "gay marriage" and not "civil unions"), even if that relationship isn't sexual/romantic, then get "married" or "adopted."

coming home with a newborn can deprive both mothers and fathers of so much sleep, they could use newborns as enhanced interrogators. How productive are you on <4 hours of sleep for several weeks?

Since you love what if's:

You are walking down a street when you suddenly smell smoke. Down the block, a fire is lighting up 2 adjacent buildings: a fertility clinic, where many frozen embryos are being stored for potential future implantation, and a day care center, dilled with actual living, breathing children. Fire trucks are on their way, but the buildings will be engulfed in flames before they arrive. Which building into you run into,and why?

that most of us think we are at least as wise, if not wiser, than those around us. Otherwise, why would anyone write letters to salon?

She didn't misspeak, and she wasn't racist.

"Dear Lowry: you suck!"

or better yet

"DEar Lowry, we are cancelling our ads in your trashy magazine. PS The Slanty-eyes did it."

under FACE, attempting to glue the doors shut on another facility the day before shooting Tiller.

I'm not sure what your point is.

A marriage is a contract that has legal, as well as romantic or emotional implications. It is often the cornerstone of what defines a family. Denying marriage to gay couples who are romantically committed to each other, and who either already have, or who want to start, a family (even if "family" consists of just the couple) was an act of discrimination.

What kind of relationship are you talking about, where you want all the legal benefits of coupledom/familyhood, without any of the romantic or genetic connectedness?

That said, I'm pretty sure no one checks up on married couples to see if they are having sex or being romantic. If you want a committed relationship to someone (who is not already a family member), but you don't intend to have sex with them, you can still get married. Go do it!

Yes he's intelligent. He's gotten through school, and made a good living. That takes brains.

But ... he certainly appears incurious, and unwilling to share his thoughts, which are hardly sought-after qualities in a judge. I remember at the 10-year mark for his appointment to the SCOTUS, Nina Totenberg reported he hadn't asked a single question to any lawyer presenting a case.

I'm trying to square "Las Vegas" with "gay" and not come up with "Liberace." I have to admit, I'd be reluctant to see all that fur and candle wax!

We want to see the glyph!

for Rush's sanity. Last week he repeated his "I hope he fails" with a new twist: America is failing because Obama is succeeding!

Also, Sotomayor may be a racist, but because she never joined a pro-abortion protest rally and shouted "Mandatory abortions for everyone!" from the rooftops, she's probably secretly a forced-birther, and so she might be ok on the SCOTUS after all.

Even the most ardent Dittoheads must be doing a few double-takes when their Omnivorous Leader speaks. Pretty soon his radio show will devolve into the disjointed ravings of a drunk homeless man with untreated Tourette's Syndrome.

Last night she gave a clear, concise argument about just how and why Tiller's assassination should have been prevented. The laws are already on the books. A certain TExan just chose not to implement them for the last 8 years.

President Obama, here's one more mess you need to clean up.

I would like Senator Al Franken to be seated in time to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the new SCOTUS Justice. In July. (Of 2009).