If another 9/11 occurred it would prove just the opposite. It would demonstrate just how stupid, ignorant and dangerous his foreign policy is and how ineffectual his policies are at defending the US from another attack.

Whenever I read Ms. Paglia's articles, I find myself wondering why I bothered. I did it to myself again.

Ms. Paglia and other Democrats may be happy with their candidates, but it is this arrogance that has kept Bush in the White House. Democrats alone can't beat the Republicans. Democrats (just like Republicans) need independent voters like myself and until they put a candidate up who I feel is sufficiently addressing the concerns I have, I'll keep voting third party until they get the message.

I'm sure many Dems will, as they always have, blame people like me for Bush being in the White House, but hey, it's always easier to blame others than to take a self-critical look in the mirror. If the Democrats want to keep putting up candidates who talk a progressive game in the campaign then, once elected, end up being whores to their corporate masters just like Republicans do, I'm not voting for them. Better to have the whores who are honest, as awful as their policies may be, rather than elect a hypocrite who will stab you in the back when they get to office. The other difference between the Dems and the GOP is the GOP gets the fact that they need independent voters to get elected. The DNC in general does not and, as I stated, to me it screams arrogance.

Enjoy your current crop of candidates, Ms. Paglia. For me, unless in the extremely unlikely event Kucinich gets the nod, I'm not voting for any of them.

...until Dick Cheney came along.

.....if malaria was a big problem in a country like the US, where people have the means to pay - unlike in Africa, where many people do not - if there would already have been a malaria vaccine developed. It's really too bad the idea of capitalism has infected every area of life, including those in which the will to good and to help people rather than the will to make money should be the rule of thumb. Capitalism has its virtues, but things like healthcare and life-saving medicines should not be available to only the highest bidder.

gaptoofcondi:

I can't stand Lieberman. I wish he would just disappear. But to say he singlehandedly cost Al Gore the 2000 election? I don't think so.

kreniigh:

I'm with you. In fact, I think we should be able to sue Eminem for having had to listen to the crap he puts out.

"I've been thinking and writing for a while now that Bonds is getting a little bit of a raw deal, that he has become the scapegoat for a whole era of drug abuse and cheating, that to dismiss his achievements as steroid- and human growth hormone-fueled is overly simplistic because we don't know what effect drugs have on baseball performance and we don't know which players and which pitchers were on the juice when."

I wouldn't say he's become "the" scapegoat. The reason he gets all the attention right now is he is the one who set a new record* last night. However, if you've noticed, when people talk about Bonds' recent achievements* and bring up Mark McGwire in that context, McGwire is not revered as he once was either. If it weren't for Bonds and his chase of records, no one would bring up McGwire at all because of the steroid scandal and the suspicion he bears. McGwire and his achievments* have been written off, and not just because Bonds broke* the record* McGwirse set.

Bonds and McGwire are the ones who have broken* records and people like you, King (meaning the media), are the ones who are giving (or have given) them a bunch of attention because of it. Therefore, it only stands to reason they will bear the brunt of the steroid scandal.

As for the pitcher vs. hitter argument in the steroid debate, I think the accusations, positive drug test results and stats demonstrate that steroids have had a far bigger impact on enhancing hitters' performances that the other way around.

Neimon feels this blog post which includes an admission from AT&T lacks sufficient evidence to prove its point. I would hardly call AT&T's lame excuse a "plausible denial."

Even with polls showing a majority of Americans in favor of ending this war, the Democrats still sit there on their hands, impotent to do anything useful. I've been vilified, lectured, chastised and dismissed for having voted for third party candidates in the past two presidential elections. I've been told by Democrats I was partly responsible for Bush being "elected" and then "re-elected" to the White House (which conveniently ignores the fact that both elections were extremely challengeable with results that were extremely questionable, if only the Democrats had any balls or, short of that, any sense of moral obligation to "we the people" and democracy). I've been informed that by voting for an "unelectable" third party candidate I wasted my vote.

So now I ask those Democrats: Just what, exactly, did you get in exchange for your vote? A bunch of cowardly, hypocritical sellouts.

Valkyrie, your statement that "our bodies require some animal protein to maintain optimal health" is pure hogwash. Numerous biological and medical studies have conclusively demonstrated that a well-planned and balanced vegetarian or vegan diet is at least as healthy as a diet that includes meat, if not more healthy.

If you want to eat meat, fine. But if you want to make yourself feel better about it by telling yourself you have to, sorry, but that ain't gonna fly. Not in the age of the supermarket hunter and gatherer.

With a statement as inaccurate as Valkyrie's, I really don't understand how his/her letter was an "Editor's Choice."