Republicans should be as angry as Democrats are about the breach, and mount an immediate investigation into exactly what the secret program was, and why it wasn't disclosed to Congress.

Oh, that's rich. My stomach hurts from laughing. That was a good one, Joan. Republicans will do what they always do: equivocate, backpedal, say that we shouldn't be dwelling on the past, and try to strong arm the weakest Democrats (read: 80% of them) into ignoring this. And no, Pelosi won't be getting an apology from anybody. Don't you know that only pussies and liberals admit when they're wrong.

What this will test is whether the Democrats have any hope of growing a spine. I pray they will take legislation investigating this and ram it up Obama's backside, veto or no veto. But I doubt my prayers will be answered.

The 800 pound simian that no one is talking about here is business. Enterprise computing is a huge share of the market, even in a recession. When the economy finally reboots in 2011 or so, it will grow even bigger. And no enterprise other than a startup run by people under 30 will consider a) Changing over from a familiar platform like a networked Windows legacy system to an untested Google OS, or b) Trusting their confidential content and strategy to online productivity apps like Google Docs and such. Windows and Office will continue to dominate until someone comes up with something that's better for the extremely conservative culture that rules most of the corporate world. Google may own the consumer desktop, but that's only one fish in a big ocean.

Let her apply for a job at REI. Let her go to work for the Fishing Channel. Let her pose for a cheesecake poster for the NRA so the rednecks will have some new whacking material. Whatever. Just make her go away.

There IS someone crazier and dumber than Sarah Palin.

My bad.

I'll sacrifice a goat.

I'll place a photo of Bill Kristol by my bedside and kiss it every morning after I wake.

I'll move to Colorado Springs and join a lily-white evangelical mega-church (and then work really, really hard to suppress my giggles every Sunday)

I'll even read the Collected Works of TrAnn Coulter.

I'll do whatever it takes to placate the Great Conservative God in the Sky and His Only Begotten Son, Ronald Reagan.

Just please, please, please let Sarah Palin run for president in 2012. Nothing could be funnier, provide more consistent entertainment, do more terminal damage to the Republican Party or, let's be honest, make liberals feel more superior than to see her braying, "you betcha"ing mug splashed all over the news for 18 months.

I'll hope.

a. She's indeed pregnant again.

b. She has cancer or some other serious disease.

c. Todd's been caught screwing around—ahem!—on the Appalachian Trail.

d. She's about to be indicted for something.

e. She's as crazy as a rabid dog in August.

I think c) and e) are most likely. In any case, I hope this plays out in the public eye, because this shit is entertaining. The best outcome is that she's launching a fact-finding committee prior to a Senate run, like the über-bimbo would know a fact if it bit her on her shapely behind.

If she takes him back, within one year he will be found in a South Carolina hotel with his South American mistress.

I vote more that it's about the childless who don't get how fun parenting is, how proud little milestones can make you, and how family members really DO want to hear about most of the things our kids do. I didn't give a shit before I had kids; now I totally understand it. This is more a matter of self-absorbed assholes who think the way they view the world is the only valid one.

Try lightening up, folks. Get out in the world. Turn off the PC. Take a walk.

Gary, don't lay all the blame for the initiative process at the feet of California voters. I recently left the state after living there for the first 44 years of my life and relocated my family to Washington, where the quality of life is better and the schools actually have funding. My wife and I saw the writing on the wall long ago.

But the misbegotten ballot initiative idea has also been terribly abused by legislators eager to abdicate their responsibility to make tough decisions to the voters, who elected them and pay their salaries to make said difficult calls. Cases in point: the raft of propositions that failed in May that were intended to help balance the budget. Those were promoted by the governor and legislature to get them off the hook for cuts and tax increases. Schwarzenegger tried to pass a hatful of other measures just after he took office and received an electoral smackdown from the voters.

The point is, the entire initiative process is broken beyond reason. It's become a joke, whether the props originate with voters or the government. Special elections, which seem to occur every year, cost $70 million according to March Fong Eu, the former secretary of state. The whole thing is a joke no matter which side of the gavel you're on. And I really don't see what California can do. I'm glad I got my family out in time.

It's indicative of the utterly bereft state of the American electorate and how completely apathetic and unengaged we are in our own democracy that we still tolerate garbage like this after eight years of blind, hostile, adolescent leadership. If we were truly engaged in the fate of our nation, we would tar and feather idiots like this.