The front-runner always wants to limit the number of debates and the candidate who is desperate to catch up always wants more debates. Guess McCain knows where he stands.

Apparently sore enough that Kyrgiakos or his mom has responded under the name F-Town Blues. 'cause really, who else would be protesting that much?

And they were stated by the previous poster.

Maybe there are good reasons for the basketball timeouts that King also doesn't understand? Just a though, since we're making analogies and all...

That's not the first time I've seen this guy referred to as a "tomato can". What is that supposed to mean? Why tomato cans in particular and not say, beans or corn?

I'm not up on boxing/fight lingo, is this an old saying?

Kathleen Sebelius will only be 68. She could very well make a run for it. Other than her age, she fits quite a few of your criteria. And look for any number of female, Democratic governors to be elected in the next 6 years who could then take a shot in 2016, 2020 or 2024. Don't need to be especially young to see any of those.

You're using "the suffering of tens of thousands of people to make a point" too.

Of course, the point you're making is that you're an idiot.

What did you mean by "bought-and-paid for?" That there wer bribes paid?

And blah, blah blah. You're full of shit and you know it. Bought and paid for. As in the trips and perks they're given by the people they supported. As in the additional power they gained within their party.

No wonder you're "Elephantman". You're so full of shit, no other animal could hold it all. We've been around and around on how corrupt and incompetent the Republican "justices" are on the Supreme Court and all your argument has ever boiled down to is "Nuh-uh!"

I know, I know, you're a fascist and would love nothing more than to be goose-stepping your way down Broadway, but your party is so completely incapable of doing more than bullying its way to power you'll never get the chance.

Personally I'm expecting the Taiwanese to wake up one morning to find Wolfowitz has used the connection to sell Taiwan to China.

Is the Microsoft report accurate once you click through to see the store's pricing?

There are commenters here like Phil Studge and Andrew Todd who seem to be defending Kristol by pasing Kristol's words very carefully and attempting to find a "legaleese" escape.

Why do I think these are the same people who were decrying Bill Clinton's [paraphrase] "It depends on how you define the word 'is'" as semantic slights of hand. People like this been defending Bush the same way for years now.

These claims "He didn't find one, it doesn't mean there wasn't one to be found" and "Well, McCain isn't officially the nominee yet" are disingenuous and illustrate Glenn's point quite well when he says:

Republicans have really turned into complete caricatures of themselves and, as they take on the desperation typically associated with cornered rats, the way they've degraded our political discourse and political arena generally becomes more apparent.

I have no moral fiber? You're the one glomming on to any local team so you can say "look at me! I'm a local! I'm like you! Please, please, be my friend!"

I've been a fan of one team in my lifetime. You'll go for whomever happens to be playing nearest to you. Seems to me you're the one lacking in the moral fiber department.

Shame that Harpers article is for subscribers only. If I want to read it, it looks like a trip to the library for me.

So fandom for you is all about having someone to honk your horn with? Wow. Personally, I prefer actual friends. You move to a new city and abandon your old team? So you can pretend you're "cool". You have fun with that.

I'm a Packers fan. I never lived anywhere near Wisconsin. I started watching games in 1992, they went 9-7 that year and lost the first playoff game. The year before they went 4-12. Obviously I'm not a bandwagoner.

I'm a Packers fan 'cause my dad never watched football with me when I was growing up, but I did see all the HBO specials where they talked about Lombardo's Packers, stuff that happened before I was born.

I've lived in NJ, MA, PA and OH. Who do you think I should be rooting for? I root for the Giants and Jets after the Packers, but only 'cause that's where I grew up.

After seeing that acarsaid described the work as "discredited" I went and looked for examples on the web. Sure enough there were plenty, but since anyone with a dollar and a dream can post whatever they'd like on the web I was hoping for something more substantial. I found several sites that seem to have some real world authority behind them that dispute the work, I also found some that seem to, if not support it, say that there are things still worth investigating.

The problem with ALL of these sites, including the ones you mentioned, are that they debunk or discuss the claims of vast exploration. Left unmentioned are the earlier parts of the book where he describes China at the time of the supposed exploration. Also mentioned in this earlier part of the book are the voyages to Africa and India which are not disputed.

Is there anything debunking any of this earlier information?

It is possible that while the book is "still being torn apart at page 415" that the tearing only began at page 200. Personally, I only read the first few chapters of the book and consider the exploration claims a fanciful exploration of what might have been. As for the rest?

Menzies' only claim to expertise

Didn't Needham start out as a biochemist with no real expertise on China?