..when the very soul of our nation is at stake, when the foundations of our moral life are shaken to the core, Berkeley Breathed comes out from hiding and saves us all with "You stink (but I love you)".(*)

Thanks, Berkeley, keep fighting the good fight.

(*) I anyone other than the author knows what I'm talking about, then I am in good company.

Rove et al would be crazy not to favor Hillary Clinton. Nothing gets the blood of a died in the wool Limbaughplican boiling faster than then mention of either Bill or especially Hillary Clinton, the avowed enemies of everything Right and True in America. Bill Clinton, that draft dodging, pot toking, chubby chasing desegenator and his lesbian wife with her communist ERA/health care schemes.

I don't know if Hillary Clinton would win in a national election, but I sure do know nothing would unify the Republican party better. Of course, who would know that better than Karl Rove, who has successfully made the Republicans little more than a hate group to the detriment of some of its nobler ideals.

They aren't running for President of Israel, they are running for President of the United States of America.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the two.

Reading the letters section for ILTW is almost as watching entertaining as the whoring sea donkeys on "Rock of Love."

Bravo!

repeat!

..if you can't take a joke.

I'm talking to *you*, America..

This guy becomes a raging meth addict later in life.

..You believe in an imaginary sky god and you are offended by this cartoon.

Thanks for this:

It's "Muslim", not "Muhammedan". Please stop calling Muslims Muhammedans. Unlike this cartoon, it is really offensive. The word is a part of the Orientalist discourse and shows a profound lack of understanding of Islam or worse, a deliberate resistance to understanding it. It is similar to calling Christians, "Biblicists" or something similar.

Now I have a new term for Xtians as well as a good one for Muhammedans (or Muhammadians? Muhammadens with a sense of humor? No? Tough crowd..). And I believe it's "Asianist" not "Orientalist" unless you are talking about a vase or a rug. Ho ho!

Happy Holidays!

For a long time I thought the gay-bashing in general, and opposition to gay marriage and civil unions in particular on the right was just a ploy to win elections by doing what they always do: play to the anxieties and superstitions of the most ignorant people in the country, but slowly it became clear to me that the most vigorous opponents of gay marriage believe it to be a threat to the "institution of marriage" because for them it is.

Leaving aside the fact that most of them tearfully worship a nude man nailed to a board...to these men, the idea that you could share a normal life with someone you actually wanted to fuck at some time in your life is a inherently threatening to the well-maintained facade they have managed to put up for most of their lives.

Indeed, I had always been told by my closest, and most reliably "inside" gay friends (the cleaned up, professional type) as well as a few self-professed former hustlers that the worst kept secret in the world was the voracious homosexual apatites of the political power brokers on the right.

Why? I'm sure its not the purview of Greenwald's column to examine this, but it seems like now is the time to shine a light on (a) what makes a politician or a person in power shamefully hide their predilections in the shadows and (b) further examine how this is harmful to society as a whole. In the same way that the War on Drugs has arguably made the world less safe and raised the stakes and cost of drug use, or that the War on Terror as Fought in Iraq has been bin Laden's best recruiting tools, so then could it be said that the War on Sex by "social conservatives" has fostered an unhealthy and dangerous world of marginalized sex acts performed by dangerously impulsive sex addicts?

9AM White House Press Corps briefing.

Sigh, my kingdom for Claudia Jean Craigg.

But, if I had to, I suppose I *sigh* gladly fight to defend your right to (a) spout your big fat head off, Bill Donahue and (b) believe in whatever imaginary Bronze-aged god you chose to believe in. It is "The American Way."

Re: Update, how does John Yoo still have a job.. at friggen UC Berkeley for shit's sake?

Yours not in Christ,

CMN

The Wire. End of discussion.

I love you, David Chase, but David Simon has you here.

xo,

CMN

Though this is largely true, the single most influential salivator is Dick Cheney. I have never had the impression that he cares two figs for Tel Aviv. Is there any serious record indicating why Ticky Dick wants to open a war with Iran?

Four words: Kellogg, Brown, Root and Halliburton.