Nice timing, I saw this morning on the commute:

ABORTION: Big People KILLING Little People

At what point do we give up on the 30% of the population that still support this obviously brain damaged sociopath? I find this more troubling in the long run. Anyone?

Who was it that said of Giuliani: "He's a little guy looking for a balcony"? That sums him up perfectly.

....when Camille Paglia's self-referential navel gazing and tabloid pop cultural references are now a fixture on Salon?

Two moments of horror cemented my decision to leave my wife and a marriage of toxic hatred and fury. My beautiful daughter came between us when we were screaming at each other one evening. She stepped in, arms out, tears streaming down her face, and cried, "No! No! No!" We stopped, I died a little. The other incident was more horrific. I was drying my daughter off after a bath and my (ex) wife was yelling and screaming and trying to enter the bathroom. My daughter was pushing against the door, trying to keep her out. The (ex) wife retreated to the bedroom. I brought my daughter, wrapped in towels, to the bedroom to put on her pajamas. My (ex) wife had them at the ready and insisted on dressing her. As my daughter lay on the bed, crying, she pleaded with her mother (my ex), to give her a hug and a kiss. My (ex) wife, screamed, "NO! Bad girls don't get kisses!" I have tears in my eyes as I type this. My daughter was three years old. Two days after the "bad girls don't get kisses" incident, I left and filed for divorce. Unlike the LW, I didn't seek validation for my decision. And I don't seek any now. Just know that in the end, you have to decide for your children. Every day that goes by, my daughter's radiant happiness is all the validation I need.

I fought like hell for years and went into bankruptcy seeking custody of my daughter. The (ex) wife slept with her attorney (such a cliche, I know) and then blackmailed him into acting as her agent. (I use that term precisely because he is not an attorney in the usual sense--he is an agent/fixer/consigliere.) As you can probably infer, there was much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, in a legal battle that is still not resolved today (8+ years of litigation). I have de facto physical custody of a bit over 50%. My daughter doesn't know what I (we) went through as she was too young and I didn't share the details of the disgusting behavior of the adults (ex wife, her lawyer, the judge and the GAL). Perhaps when she's an adult, I will tell her but I won't know until we get there. Divorcing a mentally ill person is not for the faint hearted.

Are we ever going to read a response from Salon about the "Return of the Harridan"? The lone justification I can think of is that, like me, there are others out there that enjoy reading the cogent and coherent missives to her columns. She is truly an abomination and her Salon forum is more fit for the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal or Washington Times.

Meet: cognitive dissonance.

It must hurt when your principles follow your politics......

Could it be "the shocker"?

if his bowels were moved?

Neutral[4] and Pro[3] harridan: 7

Con: 5

[Neutral means in this instance clarifying or expanding on something CP wrote, without referring to CP either positively or negatively.]

Did you just get out of your bible study/young Republican meeting? Was it held at the Creationist Museumem? Did you frolick with dinosaurs? How's that abstinence only thing working for you? Do mommy and daddy know your blogging on a LIBERAL web site? Did you know that Camille is a lesbian? Ewww!

Hold elections on Sundays? Here's a list of countries in Europe that do so:

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

A simple web search also revealed South American and African countries hold elections on Sundays.

Oh, and last Sunday's election in France? The New York Times reported 85% voter turn out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/europe/07francecnd.html?ex=1336104000&en=9c35c56eded7ccb1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Seems to me to be the best alternative.

Glenn,

Surely you must be aware of Alterman's recent confrontations with Klein? The way he describes the scenes, Klein is a borderline lunatic.

sounds like an ad for ED.

never mind. I just read the headline.

This is taken from HBO's website about last night's episode:

"One of Stefano's trucks pulls up to a marsh and dumps a load of asbestos. Meanwhile, Tony and Sonya have driven out to park overlooking a stunning desert canyon. Standing at the edge of the world Tony shouts out: "I get it!" "

Can we can all the theories about Tony exclaiming "I did it!" now? And you trust the AP to get it right? The AP is still looking for WMDs.

Granted it's been a few years since I've been through there but one incident I recall was during a power outage while sitting in the terminal, awaiting a flight to Budapest. [This was no "terminal" in any normal sense of the word: it was a dingy, reeked of Turkish tobacco and had nothing-- no food, no gift shop, no duty free.] There were men lingering about for no apparent reason, smoking, drinking raki and all dressed in dirty track suits. When the lights went out, one of the men hollered, "It's time to rape!" Not exactly the kind of image the Albanian tourism board would like to project.