As, for the religious parties, they like the neocons because they lose a lot of their dynamism if they have no one to go up against. For them, the neocons are perfect.

To be so young and so aware...I wish I'd been fortunate enough to realize what an opportunity I was experiencing when I conversed with my own member of that family. Would that it had been her....

Yep. Fig Newmans.

I'm going to have to look for these! Perhaps without the pom martini though....

Asim Bhutto

Close, but not quite. I find myself reluctant to actually give a name here. Not sure why. Do you have a link for his interview? Saw the footage at BBC. Horrifying...

She might morph at the podium into Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull" and ad-lib the taunt: You didn't knock me down Ray! I'm still standing!

Not only does she "homo-genize" Edwards, but she turns Clinton into Robert DeNiro. Edwards 'poofs' and Hillary is a 'bull' (implication being 'dyke'). How lovely.

And it's always interesting to note that while Willard's wealth is a plus,

He hasn't made himself wealthy by seeing the world through a romantic mist.

Edward's wealth is not because he's such a 'hypocrite' by having concerns about poor people.

Your mother may very well have used that term but here is how

Merriam Webster defines it as:

poof

2 entries found.

poof[1,interjection]poof[2,noun]

Main Entry: 1poof

Pronunciation: ˈpüf, ˈpu̇f

Function: interjection

Date: 1824

—used to express disdain or dismissal or to suggest instantaneous occurrence

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural poofs also pooves

Etymology: perhaps alteration of 2puff

Date: circa 1860

British usually disparaging : a male homosexual

My aunt was a hairdresser all her life. When she was "lifting hair", she was "teasing" it. I'm not saying that the term is never used in this manner (regional slang has lots of unique and frequently wonderful terms), only that I seriously doubt that was Noonan's intent in this article.

I see you beat me to the dictionary. I should have realized that would happen. Sorry for the echo, I should have read all the comments first.

Another instance of usage of the word "poofed" in reference to hair and not homosexuality:

And it must be stated that Rachaelanne16 griping about her wet hair is a much more authoritative source for word definitions than Merriam Webster, or any of the other multitudinous dictionaries one might think to use.

More of the People magazine culture that Paul D. mentioned....at least JayAckroyd's offering at WikiHow had some substance to it.

I'm going to have to consult with my own hairdresser on this now. I'm sure that's what Peggy would want me to do.

P.S. I used to have hair but one morning I woke up and 'Poof' it was gone. So am I a poofer?

That happened to my husband too. I think it means you've been 'un-poofed', or maybe 'de-poofed'?

But no lullabies from the likes of Peggy Noonan, or parsing about her meaning, are adequate or relevant to address the possibility that if Pakistan's government teeters on the brink of complete collapse within a few months, American forces may have to go in there and seize the Pak nuclear stockpile before al Qaeda takes them away, or before India blows the place to bits.

This really frightens me. The track record on securing arms dumps in Iraq does not leave me confident that the above could be sucessfully accomplished. Executing arms security in Pakistan would be monumentally more difficult than it might have been in Iraq, where the only real limitation was the short-sightedness of the neocon war plan.

What happens if I sing Carmen Ohio? ;->

Are you or Matt a Buckeye?

I am late getting back to the thread, but am thankful to hear that your friends in Lahore are safe at present. I hope they remain so.

I was honored to share the burden of your concern. If we cannot care for people halfway around the world, and their close friends nearby, then we have lost a critical part of our humanity.

And again I ask, why has no one complained about GWB's hair?

My theory is that there is so much to complain about that this just doesn't make the, um, cut (pardon please). ;->

are their self-revealing diatribes against gay men.

No one has to listen terribly hard to hear you digging.

Can we cover you up now?

Thanks for doing yeoman's work on keeping us up-to-date on developments in Pakistan. Ondelette, that article by Saul Singer was truly nauseating. I just can't believe they think people will fall for this crap again! They need to be rounded up, flown to the ME and forcibly air-dropped into the middle of this mess they have created.