Does Sloopy Thinking Lead to Sloppy Writing?
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I think you've demonstrated that it does!

Incidentally, the comma isn't necessarily superfluous.

And of course there's a semantic difference between "defiant" and "dangerous"-- just ask any mom dragging a hysterical tot out of a toy store during a holiday shopping marathon.

The following remarks from [General Hoseyn Salami] the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Air Force regarding the purpose and intent of the missile test, and further analysis, puts Iran's actions in a clear, unthreatening historical context...
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So it would seem.

But maybe Iran is just slipping us the old Salami.

PS: I've been skeptical of Arianna ever since her post-wingnut phase mutated into an amalgamation of latte liberal and Internet trash-tabloid publisher.

Behind FDR is a bookcase filled with books! And there is no American flag anywhere within the frame. Books and no American flag! Can you imagine that happening in today's hyper patriotic frenzy?
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Oh, I'm sure FDR was wearing a flag pin in his lapel.

I don't think they let you be President if you don't wear one.

How you live with yourself, Mr. Greenwald (is that Jewish, by the way?) is hard to understand.
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Isn't it obvious?

Glenn is a Self-Hating Jew®.

All of the Hasbarists commenting here say so, so it must be true.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

The network teevee local news is, that's for sure.

It touches one's heart to hear the empty-headed but fetchingly pretty newsreader inject that practiced note of anxiety into her voice when reporting events-- or non-events-- related to Iran's supposedly heinous attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.

It's pretty much a re-run of the standard trickle-down warmongery used to manipulate the clueless yahoo masses in advance of the illegal war of aggression, destruction, and occupation of Iraq.

If you can think of a better way to manufacture consent, I'd like to hear it!

Homer Simpson isn't the only guy who still has an "Ayatollah Assahola" T-shirt in the attic.

It's flattering to be quoted, and I appreciate it.

The quote is entirely apt, if I may say so. ;)

... but if Obama manages to snag the Olympics for Chicago, I suspect it'll turn that frown upside down!

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

Ach! I happened to catch the network local teevee news, and boy is it predictable-- but nonethless infuriating and depressing.

Nothing we haven't watched, or not-watched, a million times: a perky, attractive, superficially articulate newsreader breathlessly summing up the overall Official Spin: Prez gets tough on sinister Iran after Iran is caught red-handed by US intelligence agencies operating a secret nuclear facility.

It's the kind of news report that one imagines multiplied a thousandfold, blaring out and half-heard in noisy bars from coast to coast, and leaving people with a foggy impression that those treacherous A-rabs are acting up again and begging for another pre-emptive smackdown.

Gotta do it to them before they do it to us, see what I mean?

And let's do it right this time! Hell, yes!

Normally this wouldn't be an October Surprise year... which would make it a real October Surprise. Trick or treat!

• sandn**gers
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If it weren't for those two little asterisks, one would have to deplore mike's apparent incapacity for tact.

• Didn't say I wanted to sleep with him, just wondering why nobody around here is less then 100% right about everything.
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See, the trick is to avoid getting tangled up in paradoxes, such as self-contradictory premises... oh, sorry. Never mind. 'Night, now.

I appreciate all of the kind compliments you've been paying to me lately; but since I'm the first guy to yell "Get a room!" I'll just whisper "backtacha".

However, I'm not that good. I'd downloaded the killfile script months ago, but as it turned out stupidly forgot to delete the end of code statement when I installed it. So I assumed it wouldn't work in Firefox.

Heru-ur and other(s) helped me to recheck and correct my error. So I did read SK's initial comments.

Still, I'm glad my POV has the ring of accuracy. And it is a generalized technique that one can learn to recognize.

I was a proselytizing Trollshunner at another site for a little while, but a militant "Don't Feed the Trolls" approach causes mutual recriminations as objectionable as trollery.

Maybe there's something in this newfangled meta-DNA they've been talking up on NOVA ScienceNow that causes some people to relish engaging trolls, and others not so much.

Incidentally, for all of the bogus smears about regular commenters being Glenn's lemmings or whatever, it's remarkable that this putative obsequiousness doesn't stop people from addressing trolls even after Glenn declares them anathema, or at least persona non grata.

So I've reluctantly come to admire inspired and entertaining troll-play, and also your willingness to endure the fetid bowels of Internet wingnutdom and report back to those of us unable to steel ourselves to such rigors.

Derbig gets a shout out too-- the tone-generator-lubing, key-polish-rubbing bastard!

Before I got halfway through this letters section, my right nostril seized shut, my ears popped, and something nasty appears to be oozing from my uvula.

And I've remained at sea level-- well, I'm upstairs, so let's say an altitude of fifteen or twenty feet-- the entire time!

And I suppose that you'll say it's all just a coincidence!

But I know what I know.

PS: You must have an inner stunt pilot yearning to get out-- that explains your predilection for flying into this brick wall so often. ;)