Someone needs to be the Rush Limbaugh of the left, and let me tell you, it ain't Keith Olbermann.

Someone needs to tell America that there is nothing more un-American than a party whose ideology is characterized by sending troops in harms way for Exxon and KBR; there's nothing more anti-American than a party whose ideology is characterized by their antithesis to the American worker, antithesis to keeping American industry in America.

Nothing is more anti-freedom than forcing democracy upon unwilling populations at the barrel of a gun, whether that country is Vietnam, Columbia, Afghanistan or Iraq.

What we need is a loud mouth combination of Dennis Kucinich and George Carlin, with a bit of Hunter S. Thompson mixed in, and with the brains of Rachel Maddow.

I'm sick of hearing it from these fatuous, me-first and the gimme-gimme right wing snot-fuckers who think they are entitled to act like the greedy fat-heads they are.

You aren't special, you aren't entitled, and for a group that identifies with religion, you sure are an immoral, un-humble lot.

Fuck you!

Glad to finally see you on the Rachel Maddow Show. Hopefully it is the start of a wider trend.

Keep up the good work,

But he's keeping them busy so they can't cause trouble in 2012 and beyond.

Just enough rope to hang themselves..

Don't get high on your own supply?

I agree with pretty much everything Wright is quoted as saying. What's the problem?

Is "Something Stinks" a fucking moron, or a brilliant satirist?

slow news day? or are the writers and editors at salon just slow?

He's a muslin Mossad agent. Makes sense, no?

I really hope someone buys Saab. GM ruined it. I refuse to drive or buy a Saab that was made after the GM buyout.

Please please please someone resurrect this line to its original weird-looking, road hugging, tundra traversing glory!

If that is how you feel please do us a favor and move to Riyad, whose government fully appreciates your reverence of religion in government.

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Can pack all his shit up and move the fuck back to Europe or shut his fucking pie hole.

Yeah, the best thing we could do for the economy would be to turn every WalMart into a worker-owned co-op, and start making shit again.

Tax all churches.

I'm surprised that anyone is surprised as well. Maybe if people on the left bothered to read either of Obama's two books they'd know he was no Dennis Kucinich (which, I remind the jury, was my first pick and first campaign contributions).

What Obama is not is Bush, thank goodness. He's also not Clinton, but I would like him to stop acting so much like her. But I'll take anything over Palin/McCain.

There are a vast many legitimate reasons to be weary of this decision. She would certainly not have been my first choice, she wouldn't have made the short list.

It will be a waste of breath to enumerate all the reasons why this is a bad choice, so I will instead say that I hope she does an effective job and wish her good luck and good will.

Vic Mackey's allocution (which even Firefox doesn't acknowledge as a real word) was riveting.

But "The Shield" is still no "The Wire".

:)

I am thrilled to hear this development.

How about we let adults choose what to do with their own bodies? And how much compensation they can recoup?

Good luck with that.

The Son of God, of course.

Happy Holidays!

I will make sure that these stores are the only ones I patronize this Holiday Season.

Happy Holidays!

Perhaps it is a symptom of the widespread anti-intellectualism, this disdain for skilled professionals in America.

I spend countless soul-searching hours of ennui on the job wondering what it is that I do for society. Yet, I would no sooner ask Patrick Smith to architect, install and configure a cluster of servers than he would ask me to pilot any sort of aircraft.

Of all the stereotypes of professional Americans between the end of the Second World War and our industrial collapse in the late 1960s and 1970s (America's real second Great Depression -- I'm from Cleveland, I know), the starched tie-wearing engineer is most iconic.

For a wide variety of reasons it became uncool and un-hip to aspire to become the enterprising American engineer or technical professional; despite a slight uptick in the respect of "geek chic" in the late 1990s lasting through until the "dot-com burst" in and around 2001 and 2002, these are not sought after careers.

So now we have a population that clearly does not respect what it means to take 100, 200 or 300 souls and put their fates in one's hands two, three or four times a day.

I will spare the letters section of Salon to my more offensive theories as to why this is (hint: American Exceptionalism).

Cheers,

PS - Patrick it was you that brought me to Salon.com in the aftermath of 9/11. Thank you.

Apropos. Sarah Palin, worse the Sanjaya. Won't go away.

l-o-s-e-r

Wonder what morning Joe's thoughts about Dick "Go fuck yourself" Cheney are?

I am as ambivalent as the next progressive about Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel becoming the next CoS, but at least he has a mouth on him that will guarantee hopefully 8 joyous years of shocking and curt invective.

Every president since FDR is a socialist, if not before.

We live in a social democracy. We are, effectively, a socialist nation.

What's wrong with socialism? Nothing.