It's just a little mobile computer, guys.

I have an iPhone. I like it. I don't love it. I work at home and I just relocated and I have no AT&T signal at my home office, so I had to get a wi-fi phone for business. But when traveling, the iPhone rocks. That's probably its highest and best use: travel. Directions, finding restaurants, booking hotels, etc. In that milieu, the iPhone is stellar.

Otherwise, it's a gadget. Nothing more. I take it with me when I need it. When I don't, I leave it in my office. Somehow, my identity survives, and if AT&T doesn't install a new tower when my contract expires, I'll get something else and still like Apple's other products.

I fail to see why this should provoke either slavish devotion on one side or anti-Apple bile on the other.

Reality TV doesn't thrive on larger-than-life characters. It thrives on narcissistic, self-absorbed sociopaths obsessed with getting their 15 minutes. That's why most reality shows feature people upon whose shoes most decent people wouldn't cross the street to spit. Let's face it, well-adjusted, happy folks are boring. But I'm glad to be boring.

...is that this batshit craziness and all the other brands of Astroturf nutball behavior over healthcare will distract the press while Congress does its job.

I look forward to a day when we can look back 10 years on this stupidity and say, "Yeah, you know, public healthcare really has been a blessing and Grandma wasn't killed by a death panel."

No, they are not more important. I can think of nothing more important than holding our elected leaders accountable for their actions. Without accountability, our democracy is hollow and meaningless. All the healthcare reform and economic recovery in the world will be worthless if future leaders can torture, eavesdrop, break our laws and violate the rights of Americans with impunity.

Thanks for the tip; that was hysterical!

I particularly love the first comment about how the Left was responsible for the deaths on 9/11 because we made it illegal for true Amurcans to carry sidearms on planes. Love it.

These folks are carrying foaming, incoherent delusion to admirable heights. The Right just cannot handle being out of power. Not having total control over things drives them insane. They are utterly terrified of being made obsolete.

OMG! That is the funniest/scariest collection of non-functioning brains I've ever run across. You know, every time I think the jobless, anti-education cracker fringe of the Republican party can't sink deeper into its own completely insane alternate universe...

...well, it comes along and surprises me by going lower. Let's have some fun predicting what might be next from Orly, Coulter, Michael Steele, David Duke and the gang:

- Obama is a former white transsexual from Sweden once named Brigitte Omama before the sex resassignment surgery.

- The H1N1 vaccine is actually a plot to instill the New World Order (wait, that one's already out there; Google "swine flu conspiracy" for some laughs).

- The government plans to ship all disruptive Town Hall protestors to Gitmo and rename it Camp Limbaugh.

- Obama statues with IR camera eyes will be erected in every country so Big Brother can watch us as we convert to socialism.

On second thought, none of this can match the crazy. I give up.

...because I was thinking, "You dipshit, we're all on the same side, the American side." But then I came to my senses and realized, no, the Republicans are on the side of torture, civil liberties violations, Big Oil, war contractors and Big Religion.

Silly me.

You make a good point.

In fact, why not invite the GOP base to secede? Unlike during the 1860s, when the South was the cotton center of the country, the states that make up the Ignorant Cracker Belt have nothing to offer the U.S. except the leading rates of illiteracy, infant mortality, divorce, violent crime and spousal abuse, as well as getting most of the aid from that Bad Ole Guv'mint.

So I propose that we issue an official invitation to East Texas (we keep Austin and San Antonio), Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina (North Carolina and Virginia, since they went for Obama, clearly have hope) to Get The Fuck Out. Secede, please. Form your own country, the Confederate States of Handgun Jesus. Ban teaching evolution, abolish government and don't vaccinate your kids. Make being gay a capital offense. Elect Rush as your president for life and Ann Coulter as your Secretary of Hating Everybody. Just go the hell away.

By the way, Salonistas on this thread who live in those states: no offense to you intended, though it would be reasonable to suggest that if you're smart enough to be here, it might be time to relocate.

The health care hate drama has nothing to do with health care. It's all about ruining the Obama presidency. These bastards will wreck (if they can) any hope of a decent health care system if they can take Obama down and increase their chances of returning to power in 2010.

Republicans truly hate America. The only thing they love is themselves.

...when you can sit at the anonymity of your keyboard rather than getting out in public life for 50 years the way Ted did. You idiots who have the luxury of bashing the man for something that happened 40 years ago reveal yourselves as nothing more that self-absorbed haters. Self-absorbed because your only concern is nursing your resentment. Never mind that Senator Kennedy was one of those truly concerned about all Americans.

Clearly, that's something he doesn't share with Republicans, who have decided to hate everything and everyone. Republicans Hate America. Maybe that should be your new party slogan, you classless shitbags.