*loud guffaw*

In our high-end suburb, it is almost a zoning IMPERATIVE to have granite counter tops - every real estate agent who wants to sell your home insists upon it. Seriously: they do.

What, there are Granite-Free Zones outside the 'burbs?

I'm a Corian person, myself.

Just don't forget to park you car on the OTHER side of the street on street cleaning days, whatever day that might be.

You will thank me for this someday. =)

War Room's last posting was on Friday the 15th, and, now, to break a more than 72-hour silence we get a re-wording of an AP item?

What, no analysis? no insight? no opinion on this item's possible meaning or significance?

This is salon's War Room, right? Or did I wander into the wrong place?

The LW and her, erm, 'boyfriend' (???WTF????) are lost causes and I can't even bother to tell them to grow the fuck up. They're beneath even mustering the energy to express contempt, in my view, as harsh as that sounds. Get outta my sight, can't stand people like you.

But the kids? Jeeze. My heart goes out to them, having to be 'parented' by such arrested adolescents. God help them. Seriously.

I had to chuckle when I read that line. Salon in general and Joan Walsh's addled editorial decisions in particular (up to and including her losing some of Salon's best contributors)have pretty much used up my forbearance and are now well into my avoiding Salon more than I access it.

Oh, and I think these video clips are pretty much worthless, too. Unless, of course, these erstwhile serious 'print' 'journalists' really would rather be talking heads.

David Talbot and Mothers Who Think: we miss you!!!!

That was just so very obvious to me, knowing that she'd voted to send those soldiers to Iraq and has ceaselessly pandered to the hawks to shore up her "toughness" element. I do admit that it probably scored big points with people who are vulnerable to such brazen manipulation.

I just wish Obama would just come out and address what I happen to think is the most salient reason NOT to vote for the Clintons (PLURAL), and that is that she would absolutely guarantee another four years of gridlock. SHE IS MORBIDLY DIVISIVE. Seriously: think about it. We'd have deja vu all over again, with so many people - both Rebublican AND Democratic - not just refusing to work with her but actually sabotaging anything SHE wants. The very thought makes me nauseous.

All those people who deride the "Obamabots" are missing the point here. Putting the Clintons back in the White House would be a disaster. Bill would NOT be able to be reined in and it would be a nightmare of he said-she said and who's on first. Although I'm not swooning over Obama as so many of his detractors would like to think, I do believe he is the better choice by a mile.

There's no question that Hillary and Bill have lots of specific policy recommendations. But that itself is the problem. Despite the nice show she's made in the Senate to appear conciliatory and cooperative, Hillary has amply demonstrated that she cannot share power on things like health care reform. If the Clintons succeed in this presidential power grab, I doubt they will open up their processes to any other stakeholders at all. Clintons uber alles, anyone?

I invite anyone to go back to the beginning of Presidential politics and cite even one campaign policy promise that survived unscathed and was actually put into practice in the same shape it was articulated on the campaign trail. Wonkiness is as wonkiness does, but it doesn't pass legislation, folks. Leadership and inspiring to a higher purpose does.

So, yeah: The Clintons DO have their ducks in order. Be afraid, be very afraid.

It's just time, way past time, in fact.

I'm a boomer, white, feminist female who's voting for Obama (and who finds Hillary's cred as a feminist unconvincing for drafting in Bill's slipstream for much of her life).

Please, oh please: let's enter the 21st century at long last. Besides, I think Michelle Obama will revolutionize the position of First Lady, in ways Hillary never did, or even could. I can't think of a better First Family.

They're hallucinating and disassociating at this point.

pfft.

Billary: Just. Go. Away.

Usually I'm aghast at Cary's advice - especially vis-a-vis parenting - but this one's a keeper. We have a kid who, by his own dream-chasing choosing, has been accepted into a challenging but possibly life-changing program this summer, and it's going to challenge him not just intellectually but emotionally and practically (as in executive functioning) as well. And it will be the emotional/practical life skills part that we're concerned (not worried) about, and we're trying to prepare a non-listening teenager as well as we can.

To make a longish story short: we'll be urging him (subtle, oblique suggestion is about as much as we can do - parents of teens will understand) to read Cary's advice to this LW. It's great advice, and I know, because I've been there. What a mitzvah to be able to learn about yourself in this way!