I'll ponder on just what kind of people think a blog is the same thing as "letters to the editor," then I'll think about how little the articles in Salon mean to me any more as opposed to how much the TT community means to me.

Looking at the left hand column this morning, I find there's nothing I want to read. At all. So I guess I'll practice my bass a while before heading off to the studio, something I woud have done whether or not TT was up.

I don't know what convinced me, the vast amount of evidence you presented or the compelling, devastating argument you made.

Someone IS an idiot, but I think it isn't Maher, but yourself.

"I am a libertarian with conservative views. For those of you who can't quite fully comprehend what this means, allow me to illustrate."

A libertarian is nothing but a conservative who wants to be able to smoke pot.

Maybe you can answer yourself, also, and then you can be too busy to post your ignorant nonsense here.

"I come from a long line of punctuation marks."

And you're an *. (See Vonnegut, Kurt for details)

I've been posting all day just like always.

I knew I shouldn't have had those mushrooms on my breakfast omelet...

Time's actions shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. After all, they've always played fast and Luce with the truth.

"Walter, do you think people in a neighborhood watch program are vigilantes too?"

If they watch and call police when there's trouble, no. If they arm themselves and take the law into their own hands, yes.

The Minutemen are solidly the latter.

Actually, it was in Broward County, and the "riot" was Republican observers' protesting the election board's decision to move the review of the paper ballots from a public room into a closed room -- a perfect recipe for fraud.

The "Republican observers" were people who had been flown in from all over the country for the express purpose of shutting down any recount in Florida at all, whether in Broward, Miami, or any other part. Almost none of them were from Florida. Most were Congressional staffers from Washington, DC.

The people who stopped the count have been identified in many news stories. Perhaps you only read the ones that agree with you, or only listen to what Rush and Sean tell you.

The reason they attempted to move the count to a "private room" (it wasn't really a private room, but Rush and Sean said it was, so you believe it) was precisely because of the clamor from the so-called "observers" who had already started shouting "shut it down" before a move to any other room was considered.

Now that you've been shut down, tell me what Bush v. Gore has to do with the topic at hand.

vmcla1 very cleverly states:

"Isn't this article the very same one posted on Media Matters a few days ago?"

Congratulations, Captain Obvious! It only said so at the end of the article. My guess is that your attention span, being less than that of the average corpse, did not allow you to read that far.

We thought we were doing it wrong, too, but it turns out we were wrong.

So are you.

Will Salon ever find a subject about which Manjoo can display something other than complete ignorance?

They haven't yet.

And "air raid" spelled backwards is "diarria." Not the correct spelling, of course, but close enough to make the point that if you want to "air raid" evil into submission, all you're doing is spraying verbal "diarria" all over the place.

And "god" spelled backwards is "dog." That's just about as relevant as all your spewing about absolute good and evil, and your complete misunderstanding of moral relativism.

And you can post until you're blue in the face about it, but it won't... oh, you're a Smurf, you're already blue in the face.

Never mind.

Several years ago, my wife and I went to some summer concerts at Wolf Trap in Virginia, and while reading through the program they hand out, I was struck by the bios of some of the artists who were coming to perform that season. Almost all of them had a blurb about how they had overcome drug addiction and were back performing on the road.

I wondered then, as I wonder now, when did drug addiction become something necessary or even desirable to put on one's résumé except as an attempt to get the audience to feel either sorry or happy for the artist/journalist in question and buy tickets or be more inclined to read the column solely because of that?

I've never met Carr nor have I read any of his columns. But I'm certain there are hundreds if not thousands of harder-working people with stories at least equal in bathos to his, and another one, even if written in first person and not by a press agent, isn't really very special.

OK, I'm a "normie." Carr's story leaves me flat.

I've never been shot, either, and James Brady's story is inspirational to me.

Go figure.

Poco sticks his head up once again, and it's covered in racist shit.

The GOP only cares about the ones with the doe.

You say, "If you do even the most cursory of research, you will find that I support neither."

You're just not worth it. By your words one knows you. And your words say "Loser for McCain."

Your words also say, "Direct me to the fainting couch, please, these liberals are just too foul-mouthed for my delicate-as-a-flower psyche."

I just finished reading this "humor" piece by the Salon staff. If this is the best they can do, the election took a terrible toll on them, and they need to retire immediately.

Now that I've finished the article, the most charitable thing I can think of about it is, "Well, now I'm ten minutes closer to death."