Huh? Okay, now I am confused. There is a fairly frequent poster here by the name of Dick Dworkin; I figured you were familiar with his posts, read my name quickly, and thought I was him. Did something else happen?

Are you seriously claiming that gays haven't worked hard for their rights? Really? I mean, that's what I thought you said, but I just wanted to make sure.

What are you talking about? Dean has been consistently opposed to the Iraq war from day one.

A woman who measures her husband's worth by his paycheck? A man who feels humiliated if his wife ends up earning more than he does? Sounds like a match made in heaven to me. Now, if we could only figure out how to keep these people from breeding more shallow, stupid copies of themselves.

Dear God. Every time I read about the "troubles" of the jet set, I realize how truly alien they are.

... of identifying "normal" with "white."

You're both jerks.

Gordon: movies take time to make. I don't know when production started on Defiance, but it was before the current war erupted in Gaza; it has to have been. In any case, WW2 has long been, and will continue to be, a powerful source of stories for filmmakers. It doesn't have to be commentary on current geopolitics, and it usually isn't.

Johnny: criticizing the behavior of the government of Israel does not not equal anti-Semitism. Period. When the Israeli government acts like a bunch of ... shall we say ... antique Germans ... calling them on it is the right thing to do. Furthermore, it is particularly the right thing to do for Jews. You can call me an anti-Semite for this if you want, but I assure you that my grandfather the Orthodox rabbi would be very surprised to hear you say that.

Nobody's calling for show trials. What many people are calling for are actual, legal trials of people who broke the law. Speedy and public trials, you understand, as per the Constitution, as opposed to the kind of Star Chamber "justice" which these people have practiced. So ... can you explain what exactly is the problem you have with that idea?

So it's basically just a mechanism for press releases. Not a bad thing in itself, but having a political give-and-take open to the American people on the White House web site -- yes, including the inevitable trolls -- would be a real sign of more open government.

... as to what some of those "lies of feminism" are that you usually see on Broadsheet.

Will you please drop the anti-Semitism straw man? The only people spouting the "blame the Jews" crap on Salon are you and your fellow right-wing trolls. I defy you to cite a single article published on Salon in which the writer (not the letters column trolls, the actual writer) makes an anti-Semitic statement. Because, you know, as the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi and his wife who narrowly escaped being fried in the Holocaust, I'm pretty sensitive to the genuine article, and I sure haven't seen it.

I'll say it again: please cite a single article published in Salon in which an anti-Semitic statement is made. Because I'm pretty sure that I, and a lot of other readers who probably have a lot more reason to be leery of anti-Semitism than you do, would have spotted it already, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. Put up or shut up.

They announced the second quarter of negative growth on his watch! Time to start talking about the "Obama recession," everyone.

(Just trying to anticipate the GOP talking points.)

To hear complaints about "shameless manipulation" of anyone's death from a self-declared card-carrying member of The 9/11 Party is ... really rich.

Yep. Whenever I get into a debate over national health care, I like to tell people that I worked for a "socialized medicine" system as a medic for eight years, and my impression was pretty damn good. When I got out of the service and went to work in a civilian hospital, I was shocked to realize how poor job our civilian health care system does of delivering patient care for the insane amount of money we spend on it. If the military system is "socialism," so be it -- it works.