Libby was Marc Rich's lawyer, you flaming turd. Also I love your "99.9 percent of the country." How did you squeeze that number out of Bush's 26 percent approval number? Nixon is in hell laughing at him.

With all due respect, Mr. Shapiro and you too Mr. Serious Senator Sir ... come back someday and visit us here on Earth. Your pals at MBNA no doubt miss you, Joe, you Democrat you! When you get back, try to actually READ some liberal blogs. Get your head out of your Beltway.

Queen Cynicism on about 'saving the world'? Keen. But weird. And as much as I love the whole thing, the greatest good we all can do is booting the GOP out of DC for tne next 20 years. It's worth a million fluorescent bulbs.

Someone better tell the 99.99 percent of the ten million scientists around the world that they are "confused by this global warming crap."

Dear Rebecca: Katie is a lightweight. She had Limbaugh on for her first "news" cast. She also has ten zillion dollars. Boo hoo.

Why do you Giants fans and some others continually look away at what Barry Bonds really is? If he was a Dodger I'd still say the following: I don't care if he's an asshole; that if he was white he'd be less of one in many peoples' eyes ... but the truth is the guy is a pumped-up steroid freak who cheated his way to about 100 home runs at the least, and his breaking of Aaron's record is a complete and utter shame and disgrace. The rest is all window dressing and bullshit.

But you forgot to call Edwards "the Breck Girl," for the complete "Dems Are Fems" narrative. Karl will be disappointed ... but not too much.

Love your stuff, Glenn, but I believe Arianna meant supporting the war means you lose in 2008 (I hasten to add, unless we nominate Hillary, and then the GOP wins regardless). Of course these phony tough-guy warmongering goobers have to support it to get the yahoos who vote in the GOP primaries.

Most blacks thought OJ got a raw deal too, so who gives a shit about their attitude or whites' attitude toward Bonds? Bonds is no murderer of course ... he is merely a bloated cheating steroid freak. 'Singled out'? Yeah -- he's the one about to hit 756, not some backup utility man. I can hardly wait for the 'Michael Vick is being singled out' chorus. Also, Mark McGwire is as white as hell, and can't show his ugly mug. Rightfully. I might be the only fan in America who hated tyat 1998 bullshit parade, him and his colleague Flag-Waver Sammy. Pity whoever got between that ignorant phony and a TV camera.

Geez, Gary ... I wish I was as sanguine as you. Good luck with that one-child law, by the way. I'm not too confident that humankind's greed and folly will cease in time, if ever. Better the animals inherit the earth.

Okay ... but humans think first and then kill each other. And I might be overstating the "thought" involved. Animals act on instinct. I gotta come down against us on that one.

Yeah, we liberals hate people. Look how many wars we start for no reason other than proving our (probably lack of) dick-size, such as your President. Poor? Fuck you! Get a job! Pure liberal thought there, also.

Love your stuff, Tom ... but once we nominate Hillary Clinton, one of these ass clowns will be the next President. This slow-motion nightmare MUST somehow be stopped ... we can see it coming, and there's still time. She is the wrong gender in the wrong country at the wrong time. Yet she still leads the polls, and everyone is afraid to say the e-word: electability, as if mentioning the fact that a woman has no shot in 2008 America makes the mentioner a sexist, instead of a realist. Want more Alitos? More war? More relgioso nonsense? Nominate HRC and say hello to President Fred.

Your facts are correct. However ... that closet-case egomaniac Nader got 100,000 votes in Florida. If merely ONE IN EACH THOUSAND of those hadn't had his or her head wedged up their purer-that-thou asses and voted for Gore, the eight-year nightmare we live in would have been avoided, with no need for recounts and recriminations. The fact Gore actually did get more votes is no comfort at all to me, and immeasurably less to our war dead and their families. This doesn't count New Hampshire, where Gore lost by several thousand votes that went to Nader .

Bad arithmetic.

On Pluto.

You ask me, "What makes you so certain the votes that Nader got in Florida would automatically have gone to Gore had Nader not run?" I say: He only needed ONE OF EVERY ONE HUNDRED. Are you saying that 1,000 out of the 100,000 would not have voted at all, or found another jackass to waste their vote on? Come on. You also ask: ":The final electoral vote tally was Bush 271, Gore 266. New Hampshire and its whopping four electoral votes are relevant how?" I say, here's how: if Gore won NH, he would have had 270, Bush 267. Pretty simple. Just admit that Nader has cost the country eight years of hell.

I do not quibble with Somerby and your statement on the coverage in 2000; it was heinous and costly. But all the coverage and all the 'Gore didn't lead' and all the rest don't change the facts: NADER GAVE US BUSH.

You're funny. You could write for The Onion. If you are serious, though, I'll just comment on the "blacks and whites treat 'pets' differently." Yes ... all people do. Some love them, some electrocute and hang them. If Vick escapes this somehow, I hope there are a lot of NFL linemen in the former category, like most human beings.