She will go with me to the clubs and then we will drink too much and we will appear on some blog someplace. It will not cost $2500 or $1000 or $500 but only $69.95 per episode. She will throw up on my couch and then I will hold her head up as she throws up in my toilet. MyPersonalCelebrity will make my dull life exciting. TV coverage is additional.

this deification exists mainly as a right-wing talking point...Obama is known to the rest of us as "the guy who won the election".

magic has nothing to do with it

you would have as many posts as Klytus if you would just make yours shorter

people will eventually realize that, and ratings will drop even more

Tom Cruise is the next Batman

and featuring Clay Aiken as Joker

you spot em

you stun em

you kill em

you roast em

this is one case where a tinfoil hat might actually work

The peak volume on commercials is not louder, but the average volume is. You can say that this is "not louder" using a narrow definition, but as a former broadcast operator I can tell you that people do in fact PERCEIVE a difference in loudness, which is in fact the whole point, FCC notwithstanding.

like Lost in Space and Brady Bunch...

I don't know much about the middle east, but perhaps the desire for a separate palestinian homeland has arisen as a kind of counterpoint to the same wish on the israeli side.

when you can get Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

and his happy friend Mr. Greenjeans

oh I forgot we're not married

because I have nothing in particular to contribute

but it's fun to watch yuppies slag off low class whites

on the other hand, I never know what the hell bebop is talking about

There are plenty of places in the letters section where one person has basically posted a couple of entire pages in a row...GG seems to make more of an issue of it than other writers at salon.

Clinton was elected by people voting for her...she was qualified because of her residence status...the emphasis here at Salon.com on qualifications in the sense of "having a portfolio" is due to the fact that this will be an appointment.

Just thought you should know.

She was First Lady...she wrote a book...she worked on health care...she was shot at in Bosnia...

I'm no fan of Clinton, anyway. Just saying that people look at appointments differently...maybe they shouldn't.

Salon.com is not trying to hide the fact that it's a general-interest online magazine with a liberal slant. So railing against Joan Walsh's "puff pieces" is sort of beside the point...maybe it would be better to go read RealClearPolitics or some such for hard news.

ie someone who'll use it a steppingstone to a better gig

UESNET also had long, contentious message threads...and look where that went.

Face it: fluff pays the bills.

Damaged parents cause poverty? How about poverty causing damaged parents?

The normal curve will foil your attempts to breed the perfect parent.

I have a low-level civil service job. I don't work with the public but I've come across some employees like DJ...they've been in the trenches with poor clients and sometimes advocate solutions that would make the average person turn gray.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10345320/

Nick Juliano

Raw Story

25.06.2008

Majority disapprove of torture, 1 in 10 favor in any instance

A new poll of citizens’ attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice. Although a slight majority say torture should be universally prohibited, 44 percent think torture of terrorist suspects should be allowed, and more than one in 10 think torture should generally be allowed.

WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.

The poll found 53 percent of Americans believed all torture should be prohibited; the average in all 19 countries polled was 57 percent.

“The idea that torture by governments is basically wrong is widely shared in all corners of the world. Even the scenario one hears of terrorists holding information that could save innocent lives is rejected as a justification for torture in most countries,” Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, said in a press release.

“Further,” Kull adds, “since such a scenario is exceedingly rare, this poll suggests that virtually all torture used by governments is at odds with the will of the people.”

Since its last global survey in 2006, WorldPublicOpinion.org found that torture was becoming more acceptable in the US. Support for torturing terrorists grew from 36 percent, and the majority of those opposing torture fell from 58 percent.

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=356

the anti-torture movement is not making that much progress. Part of the problem is too much focus on morality, and not enough on pragmatics. If people were to truly understand that torture doesn't provide useful information, lowers our standing in the world, degrades our own personnel etc. then some progress might actually be made with the voters.

But instead, on these pages we have post after post of articulate, morally pure logic going up against the troglodyte de jour. Well, have fun.

no source for this however

it's a tough sell

color me nieve

If you are so convinced that removing religion from government will solve all its problems, I can only point to Russia under Stalin as the canonical counterexample.

then the true atheist state is still a hypothetical...unless I was sleeping at some critical point in history class

If you read about CIA you will find that sharing information with other parts of government is not their strong suit.

In this case they are probably not sharing the fact that waterboarding doesn't work very well.

you've been briefed, obviously

why not have all the money reprinted? And tear down that Senate chapel while you're at it.