If hot girls don't want to date you because you're not a big enough asshole, then they're idiots.

The question people young men should be pondering is not, "why won't hot girls date me" but rather "why would I want to date an idiot?"

One's standards for physical attraction should be on par with one's standards for basic intelligence.

If they're not, that's what causes conflict, not the fact that women wish to have the opportunities that were previously denied to their gender.

I bet he promised them not to revive the Fairness Doctrine if they'd lay off him.

Recidivism? Dick, you created terrorists out of whole cloth by undermining our laws and Constitution. Have you no SHAME sir, have you no DIGNTITY?

They're not returning to the "battlefield" their joining up for the first time, and now they've got justification to do so, because you gave them that justification by detaining them without a hearing, and (in most circumstances) torturing them without cause or evidence.

If we are a lawful nation and a just nation we will close Gitmo, and we will try those whom we have evidence against, and release those who we don't have evidence against.

I'm not as afraid of a terrorist attack as I am of losing the commitment to Justice and to Liberty that this nation was founded on. I'm less interested in seeing my country destroyed from within by tyrants than destroyed from without by terrorists, Dick.

KICK ROCKS!

Obama "is in real danger of becoming Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan."

The right's favorite thing to do since the election is to predict that Obama will fail just like Jimmy Carter.

They're still living in the eighties. Reagan, his legacy, and his party are deader than Newt's own pathetic career.

It's time for Newt to got to ShutTheFuckUpistan with Dick Cheney and Andy Card.

America thinks you suck.

Kick Rocks!

It's not a conspiracy that the wealthy are powerful, and not surprising that their interests are disproportionally represented in Washington. Grow up people. Change doesn't happen overnight, and in the meantime the only people who know how to work this crazy ship of state are people who were handed the keys to it by the ruling class.

Now, if you ask me, I would much rather have competent people, than incompetent people running things. Even if their philosophy differs greatly from mine. That's why I'm not keen on histrionics of David Sirota.

Obama has surrounded himself with free-market Clintonites, well bowl me over with a feather!

Washington is full of power brokers and crooks. You don't say!

In other news water is wet, and the sky is (I know it's amazing) actually blue.

Did Alabama Sen. Shelby question Obama's citizenship?

Do I give two shits?

Nicki and Margene I can understand given what we know of their backgrounds, even without the recent revelations about Nicki's child. Nicki's childhood must have been full of family politics, backbiting, and maneuvering for favor with Roman. Margene, until the last few episodes is really a child in many ways, seeing love and acceptance. It's Barb and Bill are incomprehensible to me.

Last season HBO did little character snippets on their ON DEMAND channel (for those w/ digital cable) and it clarified this a little bit. Bill and Barb were living as a mainstream LDS couple, when Barb got uterine cancer, and both experienced a crisis of faith in the wake of her hysterectomy. Barb became seriously depressed facing the prospect of never having children, and Bill had a subsequent epiphany about THE PRINCIPLE, which lead them to marry Nicki, who was acting as a nurse to Barb (I forget why).

Barb's reason for following THE PRINCIPLE is really all about the kids. She's lost the ability to have more kids, and feels a responsibility to her creator to be the bringer/bearer of life. Her recovery from depression depended on her changing her feeling of being cheated by God of her purpose to feeling that her illness had a purpose, which was to guide her into living THE PRINCIPLE.

Bill's reasons for THE PRINCIPLE are twofold. One, he seeks a solution to Barb's depression because he cares deeply about her, and two his ambition extends to all portions of his identity, including his faith. His intense need to prove that he is worthy, after having been abandoned by his father, and thrown out of the compound, drives his desire to live THE PRINCIPLE better than any other polygamist. The fact that, in his eyes, Roman Grant is a usurper to his family's rightful claim to the prophetship fuels this feeling even more.

Obama clearly dodged the question, but I can hardly fault him for it. I think he was honest in his desire during the campaign to have an transparent discussion about healthcare, but sometimes plans on the trail run into realities while actually on the job.

It sucks that Obama has to compromise on some of the things that made him appealing in order to work the levers of power, but sometimes that's just how it is. It doesn't mean, however, that he should totally be let off the hook for it. I'm glad that this is being reported on, and folks should make stink about it, because the squeaky wheel is the one that gets fixed.

Of course looking at this as another example of how Obama is a failure while ignoring all his other acheivements is just being unecessarily nasty.

A lot of folks liken the Bush years to a giant mess, that Obama has to clean up because it's unsightly. I liken the Bush years more to a time-bomb. It has to be dismantled, slowly, painfully, and deliberately. I think that's what Obama is doing. It's okay to give him constructive criticism, but try not to shout at the guy while he's trying to figure out which wire to cut.