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.

who cares about the plot and cinematography and all that stuff

$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.

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

that is all

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

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

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

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

is not so safe

but I want to believe it's good

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

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.

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

this guy is in it to win it

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

it's where he finds out that his father is Picard.

"riding the batmobile" is what happens when I have too much to drink

it was while I was riding the bus

I can't wait to see this movie...right after I have a big hole drilled in my head to relieve the pressure.

So why are YOU here?

I think so!

is would be more appropriate to complain to management, rather than the Teamsters.

My dad drank Lucky back in the 70's. My first beer was a Lucky and that probably explains my indifference to craft brews.

I went to art school (design) in Los Angeles during the go-go 80's. It was fun but I didn't really fit in with the "art tribe". Also, my work was boring...and while I was sitting around deciding whether or not to apply to law school, my peers were art-directing films and starting bands and doing stand-up and...well, you get the idea.

The upside is that, while not every job is art, every job can be creative in its own way.

I get the emails, but I haven't donated (yet). The emails started hot and heavy after I signed up online to attend an Obama rally earlier this year.

I'll probably send $50 later...if I'm part of a larger demographic, Obama should have a nice war chest in the fall.

As someone else has pointed out, satire exaggerates the truth to make fun of its target. So we might see a satirical cartoon of Bush depicted with an 85 IQ, or one with Obama as the second coming of Christ for his more fanatical supporters.

This cartoon combines a lie (that Obama and his wife are terrorists) with a more plausible scenario (Obama as president) to create a smear. The supposed target (the right wing) is nowhere to be seen.

If Rove had been in the picture frame instead of Osama, I might then agree that the cartoon was satire. But as it is, it is not.

Kamiya fails to recognize this because, although he is very articulate, he is not all that smart.

This piece of art moves the target into metaspace ("the ridiculous accusations")...while I would not accuse anyone of not being able to perceive this, I think that on a visceral level the cover functions as pure smear.

I know several people who support Obama, and they all use toothpaste. When will the mainstream polling organizations stop ignoring this crucial segment of the population?

As this trend continues, the differences between cellphone and land-line respondents will dissipate simply because of heft -- the larger the cellphone universe, the more it will contribute to national opinion, and the more it will resemble the general population.

This implies that landline polling will BETTER approximate the cell demo now as compared to 2004.

insert castration joke here

So a McCain campaign bigbee calls American whiners. Perhaps it is because he comes from some sort of vivid, radical culture. So Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's nuts off. Perhaps it is because he comes from some sort of vivid, radical culture.

If Jackson had said that he wanted to cut off America's balls...you might be making sense.

The theory is that cell phone only users are a different demographic from land line users. So they should be polled too.

The problem is that cell phone users are harder to reach.

So polling organizations sample those demographics that are similar to those they can't reach, on the basis of:

ethnicity, age, marital status, income, years of education, use of technology, home ownership, vehicles owned, etc.

Do you really think exclusive use of a cell phone makes that much of a difference, as opposed to all the other variables that are available for use in selecting a demographic? The article says two points for Obama...but since the authors are only presenting opinons, and not the results of a study, it could just as easily be .5 points, or zero points.

The term "outlier" applies to quantitative variables (ie 1.5*IQR)...not categorical variables (like being for/against a candidate).

So it's not obvious.