About an hour too long, and I was rooting for the villian.

this guy is in it to win it

you've got the brains and the looks to boot...but that sad-sack mulder is going to drag you down into parody

I commute by bike and would not want to discourage anyone else from doing so, but I wonder about all these bikes with trailers creaking along at 7 mph.

Last year I went to a Mexican resort town for vacation and there were tons of scooters and gas-powered golf carts...less energy efficient than bikes for sure, but also a lot better than 4500lb SUVs.

It is too bad that diversity in transportation doesn't include more diversity in gas-powered machines.

Bin Laden is currently on the FBI Most Wanted list...so he must be a priority of some sort or another.

but I want to believe it's good

is not so safe

however I'm not sure what this has to do with batman

will the elimination of bodily wastes be considered a terrorist act?

but it's normal and healthy to just let it go

"europe, we still need you"...what an interesting idea.

that is all

rejecting the plastic world of soap opera zombies does not necessarily mean accepting some alternate universe filled with jocks and rappers

$17 chickens are no prob because I don't have a car...I'm not even much of a yuppie income-wise but OH BOY do I love to GLOAT about that EXPENSIVE FOOD that I eat with all the money I save by not having a car and riding my COMMIE-PINKO bike everywhere.

who cares about the plot and cinematography and all that stuff

always the master of the universe in his/her BMW, on the phone, making the right turn at high speed as I wait to cross the street on my bike.

you are witnessing a Positive Social Movement

more widespread than you think

"I was amazed recently to read that "Who does he/she think she is?" can be regarded as racist in the United States although it's frequently said of people whose high opinion of themselves has little or nothing to do with reality. In Victorian England "knowing your station" was an expression used to encourage people to accept their lowly status in a snobbish, stratified society."

In the United States, the meaning of a particular statement is sometimes dependent on context. For example, if one could imagine that "who does he think he is" would not be said about McCain in a situation similar to the one Obama found himself in, and it was said about Obama, well...some people would say that's racist.

In your country the rules of human logic may operate differently.

Obama has done things with his life that are admirable by any standard.

here in the states we call it arguing

MOD was responding to my post about "pedigree", I think.

Obama is still campaigning. Europe has cultural ties to the US and a sizable number of people there are enthusiastic about him. What would be the purpose of a China visit right now? There will be time for that later.

It was pretty entertaining, although the Mulder/Scully scenes became sort of depressing after a while. I saw the anti-gay theme more as anti-russian while I was watching the movie...but I suppose in hindsight it was pretty awful.

GA looks great and it is a pleasure to see close-ups of an attractive woman who is not a barbie type (like Mulder's temporary FBI partner).

"AA" is Alcoholics Anonymous...but of course the dittoheads already know that.

BTW the charge of racism is a perfectly legitimate response to the concern-trollers who want to "invite debate" on Obama's presumed inadequacies...we are asking you to examine your own racism, while you are asking us to look at our candidate as YOU frame him.

For example, the racism frame is no less fair than the "experience" frame. Certainly Obama is qualified to run for office. Should we endlessly debate your list of presumed requirements for the job?

The answer is NO. And many of you have already said that you don't want to hear about racism any more.

My experience here is that the term "AA" in reference to the african american community is used exclusively by anti-obama posters. That's the "context".

In the case of my last post "you" can be replaced by "dittohead".

but I would not assume that the belle is a cracker...no, really.

As for dittohead and all that...you are the one making an assumption: that we could ever have an actual conversation.

instead of writing some long missive about The War Hero.

Oh well.

too many partners...it was getting kinky

i don't take orders from the cow head...only from my Lord God Obama

the feeling is mutual

I don't think GG is proposing murder. But if I'm reading him right he does seem to think that Democratic Party membership should be limited to those people who actually support its values.

People can still vote whatever way they want in the general election, after all.

One can make the argument that the blue dogs are not the problem, and that since Clinton's presidency the party in general has gone towards the right into "pro-choice corporatism".

That may be true to some extent. Still, it is obvious that the current Congress is not supporting core Democratic values. Why not first look within for solutions?

The opportunity to monkeywrench, apparently.

nice of you to be so concerned about what we Democrats are up to

That is all true but not really germane to the issue of Irish influence within the Democratic Party. Presumably you would "vote your interests"...and that really is the issue when it comes to the blue dogs.

or something called BlogHim, for that matter

although the word "Broadsheet" seems to have lured me in

a debate about the qualifications for a debate

but it reads like a brag

that should fix you right up