there are probably a hundred places to buy a couch in the Bay Area.

But none of them are Swabby Swiq!!!!!!!!!!

I think they call it the "big lie" technique.

your clumsy segues from the topic at hand, to your own special brand of Obama "commentary", are truly pathetic.

Readerreader is not a big Kennedy fan.

I was wondering about that.

The Kristol riff is a variation on the theme of Republican obfuscation over torture illegality.

The Kristol story is about a blatant propagandist getting a blatant payoff.

The only riff I see here is your tortured logic.

it better have at least 4 cylinders.

why do you think they say "a fate worse than death"?

The laws of warfare are based on a consensus among civilized nations who recognize that war is sometimes inevitable, but than utter barbarity does not have to be.

in the case of Palin it's probably for the best.

if we compete, we'll win

Joan Walsh said they didn't win because they didn't enter, which is true as far as it goes.

probably not $250K...but who knows. That ad with Isabella Rossallini and the crawdad-thing must have generated some serious dollars.

nothing particularly good will come from it.

so what's your personal experience in this area? Did it work out? Or are you just one of those people who likes to yell STFU to people on the internet?

maybe

Those of us who see the increasing levels of asymmetrical conflict involving terrorism occuring in the world would like to see the US exercise a consistant standard of morality.

As opposed to creating secret torture prisons all over the world.

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/10/04/obama_torture_and_secrecy_betr.php

I didn't commit any felonies while shopping at Safeway this week.

the zesty life doesn't come from cherry-picking one's past.

Prosecutions are the right thing to do. As a bonus, Bush II will be the most reviled ex-president since Nixon.

sure. But I would prefer to draw the line in the sand now, as opposed to when American journalists and protesters are jailed and tortured.

Denying your memories, and attempting to inhabit them, are two different things. I am cautioning against the latter.

she recommends a vegetarian diet.

http://www.alexandrapaul.com/activism/activism_overpopulation.htm

LONDON - MTV US presenter and former 'Baywatch' star Traci Bingham has become the latest model/actress/presenter to strip off for animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as it launches a new campaign to promote vegetarianism.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/150702/MTV-Baywatch-star-goes-naked-vegetarianism/

however...

Pamela Anderson is turning a blind eye to her hardcore vegetarian, anti-meat beliefs -- and it's all for her deep appreciation of strip clubs.

Anderson, who's been an obnoxiously loud animal activist and PETA spokesperson, is on board to help celebrate the upcoming opening of a strip club -- which happens to be part of a New York steakhouse.

http://www.tmz.com/tag/bay+watch/

sort of like soylent green, but without the meat. Three bars a day for $5, 800 calories per bar, all your vitamins and minerals, protein carbs and fat. Have each bar with a glass of water.

The MRE is a similar concept, but they apparently cause major constipation when eaten for long periods of time.

I would "go green" just for the convenience factor...

is torture

just the size of a bullion cube, but not containing bullion...because bullion is murder.

breakfast - cup of coffee and cinnamon roll at the farmer's market

lunch - cup of coffee and cheese sandwich at the fancy coffee shop

dinner - cup of coffee and some sort of horrible prefab sandwich at Starbucks

nightcap - can of tomato juice with a Centrum Silver

This is probably not ethical eating, due to Starbucks...I would like to switch from a sandwich-based lifestyle to one that relies on ethically-produced nutrition cubes. Perhaps something made of compressed beans.

President Barack Obama banned the use of waterboarding and several other interrogation methods in January 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

and all the old feelings came back. Although it didn't work out, I always felt she and I were "the ones" for each other in some sense.

So I'm 48, and I really haven't gotten over it completely.

it was all Lyndon Johnson's fault.

you have zero respect for this person...why would she listen to your "advice"?

Why don't YOU do some volunteer work, and figure out where your garbage is coming from.

The only nation to use nuclear weapons on civilians was not North Korea, nor was it Iran. It was the United States. Total killed, roughly 200,000.

unfortunately nobody agrees with me.

if you keep ragging on KateTex, AKA Smith might come back!

she must think that we're all equally great!

The rate of growth and demographic pattern of the disease, as well as the treatability and lethality of the virus, are more important than fixating on a simple prevalence rate at any given time.

as it turned out, the probability was 1.

I care if they torture people.

all these things need to be 50/50 on gender...then maybe they'll stop yelling at us.

I wonder how you can compare politics to chaos theory on the one hand, and on the other hand advocate for a particular moral position...as it would seem that political advocacy would not have a cause-and-effect relationship with a chaotic system.

can you say it without laughing?

Would a small carry-on shampoo bottle (glass) hold enough acid to eat through a plane's fuselage and cause explosive decompression? I worry about this...

and if you ban it, there's also no competitive advantage...and you avoid the health risks.

I did say it was a glass bottle...