I've obviously offended you, and I'm sorry. But I live in South Carolina, a majority black state that has been ruled by whites exclusively. I can find examples of simple racism within minutes of walking out my office door.

I'm glad that you're proud of having African-American persons in positions of power in the South. I presume you voted for them. Lastly, disagreeing with the President is not racism (I hope), for I clearly just made a point of disagreeing with the President.

God bless Carter. He shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the reich wing will send his way. He's an honorable man who has done great good around the world and in our country, far more than any critic can say for himself.

He's simply saying what we all know, especially here in the South. Electing a 'negro' was going to send some of our more moronic citizens into a tizzy of cosmic proportions. Racism has been largely de-institutionalized, but it remains in the hearts of many sick folk.

I wish Obama had shown more determination to do the right thing regarding GITMO, Don't Ask Don't Tell, the absurd Defense of Marriage Act...he hasn't, but he shouldn't have to bear the brunt of these transparently racist attacks.

...we have nice comfortable room for you. No running water but lots of attentive care!

Highlights sure has changed.

Excellent, Mr Greenwald. Of course you're a rabid, military-hating, anti-national security, bomb throwing leftie radical Bolshevik. Just like Izzy Stone, and we're grateful to you for it.

Joe Klein could do so much better, he's not altogether stupid, but he's so entrenched in the village cabal that he's lost. He's become a clueless old man. I'm always amazed at the attitudinal and cultural differences between people like me, I'm 54, and people who are really my older contemporaries, say 64. I grew up smoking weed at 14 and listening to Led Zeppelin (after the Beatles, of course)...what did they grow up listening to? We're so far apart.

I arrived in France a year ago only to find that they had let pass in my satchel an enormous Swiss Army knife I had forgotten was there. After breathing the proverbial sigh of relief at not being caught, I opened my checked bag to find that their baggage inspectors had dumped everything on the ground, somewhere, and then walked all over my clothes. Boot prints, literally, on everything.

Flying to Newark two months ago, TSA goons tried to make my physician wife remove a cast from her broken leg after sending her crutches through the x-ray scanner. I shit you not.

I'd put up with it all if there seemed to be an intelligent, informed process for travel safety.

I swear I will find religion if the truth about this period of insanity becomes the accepted reality and, this is the kicker, if Ridge, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Yoo, Bybee, Addington, Abrams, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Rove, Fleischer, et al (not meant to be an exclusive list) are delivered to their just desserts.

Fuck Tom Ridge, he knew what he was doing. So did Colin Powell...principles? I fart in your general direction.

A cosmic farce of unending proportions. We knew what was happening. Why didn't the press?

He held forth against the worst of the worst, when we had the good Richard Nixon in that big house in DC, and Jedgar Hoover in his hosiery and bustiers (when he wasn't at FBI HQ, of course).

I idolized him when he was alive. I miss him now, and god bless his granddaughter for carrying his torch.

Hannity be consistent? You know the Emerson saying, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." I guess that definition fits the man.

And then from the exalted Jon Voight, "Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods." Dr Evil is foaming at the mouth at this statement. He, the evilest Dr Evil ever, is, on his worst day, more evil than Saul Alinsky. Jeebus fuck...what was Voight thinking? Did he have the wrong script?

These folks need to be relegated, or uplifted, maybe fork-lifted onto the stand at the Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. There they can fulminate, gesticulate, attempt to articulate their own particular psychoses, and people can just walk on by. At least it would get them out of the country.

I know he's controlling every move made by B. O'Hussein Bama. Nothing will get done until Papa Joe (oh, wait, that's Kennedy) says so. Never mind.

G...you're a better man than I to have gone through this interview "exercise." I believe Ms Taitz is insane.

During the many times I subjected myself to the Shuster interview, I went from being incredulous, to horrified, to amused, and then to sorrowful. She needs help, badly. I hope she gets it.

If not, let the games continue.

Joan, you rocked earlier. Thanks for a job well done. It's long past due that we take the gloves off.

Like Joan, mine was a Huntley-Brinkley household. My father, a raging liberal, erudite DC academic, used to call him "Walter Krankheit," Krankheit being German for "sickness."

I don't know why he disliked Cronkite so much. I do know that, growing up in DC during the turbulent 60s and 70s, he and H-B made me the news, and by extension, the knowledge junkie that I've been cursed to be.