The republicans would've had the hugest cause to rejoice.

Superb diagnosis. Donah will not go on my ignore list though. He she or it is just another incediary idiot in my book, and will receive in return, a burn for each burn.

I find in life the more you ignore, the more life has a tendency to creep up from behind and take a bite out of your backside, but of course I never taught English composition to high schoolers, so I defer all better judgement to you.

I'm so glad you can acknowedge the other side of all the ugliness, and your response is pretty typical of what I always more or less expect.

I'm not interested in your number either, apart from your number being up.

East of Baton Rouge, and west of Beirut, and I find some American feminists every bit as fanatical as Franco's falange, and as smugly shortsighted of their own honest shortcomings as el topo.

A little experience never hurt a little hope.

It's crystal.

Oops! there it is...!

than the need for a hearing aid

which is what Senor McCain seems to be sorely in need of,

including somebody of course to count all of

his houses for him.

I'll volunteer

It sounds like a cushy job.

What's the health benefits package like?

This "caesar's" a pleaser..I enjoyed your little teaser.

You sure do make a lot of wagers.

What's with the Lord of the Lames S**t? It's time to fry the fantasies and face realities. I hate Hobbits.

Maybe Alex is trippin' on some stinkin' overthinkin'. I'm not gonna make a wager on that one because I'm not the all wise one.

As long as Biben doesn't have weapons of mass deception stored up his sleeves, he's cool with me.

AKASmith is merely giving you the lay of the land...her land as it were.

Greeting from the former hands of fate.

Seal it with a kiss

Ignorance

The sweetest bliss.

It's not just a philosophy, it's a sheltered way of life...

Join me and the venerable Fester for fun and activities from time to time here at Salon, that funhouse, that laugh a minute punhouse, of great impressionistic finger painting AND political punditing, that you probably wouldn't pay a plug nickel to take notice of, much less read with any real solemnity, if you picked it up in the morning with your daily local newspaper.

Join in, for two shits and a grin.

With out wanting to punctute your pet theory about independents (I'm one) I don't hang out at the local pool hall, or even have a "brewsky" at home with the fellas to watch a ballgame.

I'm a very infrequent drinker (with a preference for Persian tea) and I hate every spectator sport played competitively here in the western hemisphere and beyond.

So, the bottom line, when you try to tag and categorize a constituency of people, you should begin by knowing what you're talking about, and just in general, by being in touch with the times and contemporary society.

It should be noted, probably, not to mention profitably, that you should take sterner stock of yourself. You are way off the mark, and waaaay out of touch.

Either that was some more impressionistic finger painting, or you stepped in a cow pie and saw stars.

All things aside I don't blame you for the unsubscribe. Fortunately for myself, I never became a faithful Salonista elf. Of course now most are mainly trolls, which is now taking a seriously taxing toll. Cos Salon subscrptions are down, while Walsh's three ringed circus, keeps it up with all the abundity of the pundity clowns.

And so it goes...

Let us just say that Smith has a penchant for seeing sexism perhaps where it is at times not most uppermost in obviousness to others.

And yeah, if she doesn't have some sharp, deep seated, and rather resentful issues with men, I'm completely prepared to swallow the entire bottle of India ink sitting on my desk in front of me.

Anyway, engage her in rational discussion (if you can get her to that stage) and she can be remarkably insightful at times, at others, she seems to sup on the bitter dregs of resent, and often offers not much more than imperious postures that can vacilate from haughty to hateful.

Her ignore list goes through revisions from time to time,

Depending on how vigorously or not you agree with her viewpoint.

Essentially she's like the stones at Stonehenge, there's no getting around her, and if your intention is to move her or make her budge, you'd better think again.

Well, there's your primer, so try not to be a pest, and give things your best.

Should work on egalitarianizing their own culture before they go throwing the book at others.

Muslims and Muslimahs can make things better for themselves without the benighted efforts of imperialistic intellectuals who are often no more understanding of their own indeginous culture than they are of a foreign one.

At least the Muslim world (with all of its many problems) still has strong extended families, which is the rarest of all rare things in America.

Maasalma

I've never kicked back a few with Bush, voted for Bush, or even drunk a can of Bush beer, or bought any beer beverages from Anheuser Bush Inc., so I don't know where you're going with your political analysis (it might be going up into the ether for all I know) but I don't think you've made any connections that are concrete much less credible.

But hey, if you feel you've sussed something significant out - great, go with it.

I have my eyes only on what is before me at the moment, the Obama-Biden ticket, and its success, the rest is really kind of retro-perspected and superfluous to anything I am particulary concerned about or interested in.

And we'll hear about it for a week.