I assume, being an infrequent poster, that the @ thing is a blog convention, aimed at the individual, sort of a chere lectrice of the digital age? (From a quick scan of your posts, I have reached a gender presumption.)

Either you've got a tin ear ("don't sound like you're joking")(?!), or I have managed to be overly obtuse (overly subtle would be just another presumption) while still sober. Let me assure you that I have more than a passing acquaintance with the federal and a couple of state constitutions. Have taken more than a few IQ tests, as well.

But even if I were just flogging words for my own pleasure, try to persuade me that our nation would not be better served if the McCain contributors were disenfranchised.

There is a big difference between now and the election of 1980. Now, we have a track record of what happens when you put mean-spirited dumbasses in control of the White House (20 out of the last 28 years) and of the Congress (12 out of the last 14 years.

It's worked out so well.

If the American electorate puts McSame and Hail Mary in the White House, it will be because, as a nation, we deserve no better.

If the majority of the American electorate in November decides that we, as a nation, deserve to have McSame and Hail Mary as the leaders of our nation, we, as a nation, will get what we deserve.

Fair enough.

Given that the zygote would have about the same IQ as the proud citizens promoting this law, why not give them equal protection?

The problem of human overpopulation will be self-limiting. When we get to the end of the current evolutionary dead-end, the scientific and industrial revolution which has lasted a mere eye-blink of 200 years or so, we will get back to population control the way God or nature or fate intended: disease and starvation and predation, even if the only predators left are our own kind.

It took our ancestors 18 centuries to increase our numbers from around a quarter or a third of a billion at the time of Christ to one billion at the beginning of the 19th Century. Since then, we've added 5.7 billion. In my lifetime alone, which started in 1947, population has increased 279%

Given the same opportunities, fruit flies would have done the same thing, with the same ultimately self-limiting result.

Hot? God help us.

Any H. sapiens male that can maintain an erection, despite ample lubrication and furious pumping, while looking at either Saint Sarah or her toast image, can not be trusted to operate machinery or exercise the franchise.

OK, I'm well into Friday night and too lazy to search, but I'm pretty sure I said:

Verily I say unto you, there is no one so stupid about money as a rich man. Myself, I'm stupid about wine, but the motivation is the same.

A "free" economy without rules makes as much sense as a football game without a rule book or referees.

For those of us who enjoy irony, the only thing better than the world's only super-power being reduced to a beggar nation by the political genius of the neo-cons is the majesty of the free market gutting the wealth of the rich long after the rest of us have gone broke.

Instead of guarantys, why should we not just nationalize the bastards?

Welcome to the truth, building for a quarter-century, about trickle-down economics.

Those of us raised on a farm know what trickles down when you follow behind a fat hog.

The only way this plan will ever cashflow is if we have asses sitting in houses making monthly mortgage payments. As a tax-paying asset owner, I would much rather collect $1,000 per month than fail to collect $3,000 per month.

If that requires letting a bankruptcy judge extend the term for 50 years, infinitely transferable to future purchasers, at least there will be current interest income for the creditors, and a fighting chance that eventually the value of the house will catch back up with the principal balance.

If you don't want A woman in the White House, you're sexist.

If you do want THIS woman in the White House, you're an idiot.

Hey, this is easy. Just move up the VP debate to Friday night.

Sarah Moosejaw is ready to lead the western world. Surely she needs no more coaching for a debate.

Paul Newman first took up sports car racing in 1972, at age 47, reportedly developing an interest when he and Joanne made Winning a few years before. He won his first amateur national title in 1976, and his first professional victory in a Trans-Am series race in 1982.

His last professional victory was a a member of a team that won its class at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1995. As memory serves, the car number was the same as his age. He last competed at Daytona two years ago this spring. Do the math.

By comparison, staying pretty must have been easy. His was a life in full.

Permit me a little anticipatory schadenfreude for all the squirming the conservatives are already doing. It will get worse.

Nothing wrong with a little freude when the schade hits the fan for folks who deserve it.

If we're going to nationalize these losers, why not nationalize some of the current winners as well, say big oil and the health insurance industry?

We might even generate enough cashflow to pay some of this debt we're fixing to incur.

First Jed Bartlett and now Paul Krugman.

Good times to be a liberal.

The honor of hockey moms, or at least some of them, has been restored.

Who would have thought that we all would end up agreeing with Tricky Dick?

"We're all Keynesians now." Richard Nixon, 1972.

Victory is not enough. I want a landslide of such proportions that we can tell James Dobson and Rush Limbaugh and every talking head that ever appeared on Fox News to just STFU for a generation.

If necessary, I'll wait a couple of years for the filibuster-proof Senate.