the films like Slapshot, admittedly a grade-B flick (one of the best no doubt!) have become classics. And he invested every role with his inimitable spirit.

I don't mourn heavily for him because he had a great and long life, and he left us all a legacy of always-enjoyable and sometimes-great performances. Rest in Peace Paul.

I meant "known fact."

is not a scarce commodity these days, sad to say, and she's just one more empty-headed middle-aged person who hasn't had an original thought in years.

Add to that, she's been pumped full of 100 new concepts, vocabulary words (though she already knew nuke-ular) and talking points over the last few weeks, and her habitually prevaricating running mate has made unsupportable claims about her that she hasn't close to the brainpower to spin or weasel out of explaining.

And she can barely string a coherent sentence together.

Thank God, or I guess we'd be looking at a GOP landslide.

you wrote:

"Because we've been voting penises into office since we started hiring presidents in this country"

It got me thinking, since a number of them turned out to be assholes, and an asshole is more similar to a vagina than a penis, shouldn't we then avoid electing women to positions of power?

Oy, I hate getting flamed, so before I do---it's "modest proposal," my point is any definition of those we choose to be leader that has anythign to do with what position they adopt when peeing is a mistake.Either HRC or Maggie Thatcher are/were bigger hawks than BO, what does that say about the above claim?

It's analogous to the development of MOR "feminism" in the US, where more of it is an internalization of male values and an attempt to outdo men at their own games than an attempt to make the rules more equitable. We have to look beyond these simple dichotomies to the underlying definitions of leadership, international relations, and how to balance self-protection with international cooperation, among many other things.

And the times are certainly too critical for much of the silliness pervading this important election, as well as the me-first, sexist, or racist rejection of Obama by the PUMA's and other female swing voters. How can women of any politica leaning support the almost certain reversal of R v. W unless they're uninformed or one of the above?

Looking beyond gender, beyond race, if anything, it's about 19th vs. 21st century thinking, at least when Obama's at his best and McCain's at his usual.

Maybe the first time she was told she was pregnant her response was "good, then I wont' have to do THAT again for a while."

Probably not though....BC use is more likely :-).

'nuf said.

I should add "in the past" about our effects on their countries. If you're old enough to remember their debt crisis, completely IMF-manufactured, you'll get my drift.

"capitalism. it's not a system, it's a euphemism."

Bon mot!

Agore, China's only nomincally non-capitalist. Check it out over there as I did for many years, you'll see.

C&R, your bombastic yet trivial and low-blow attacks on progressives and their websites are tiring. Just go back to FR or whereever it is you get your idees recues. I'm sure you'll protest "I'm not a rightie." Yes you are, whether you know it or not.

South American countries are pulling away from the imperialist system we drive which has devastated their economies and poitical systems. I say good--funny how righties love competition when they're on top, whine and name-call when they're not.

That the gubmint can now spy on us, while we now can't even subpoena the communications of a growing number of the crooks in power. How ironic, so ironic it makes me wish they'd all DIAF and then burn in hell, and I don't even believe in hell.

"I am a Clinton supporter --the best sort, the one that sees a 2012 return."

So the best sort of Democrat is one who wants four more years of anti-democratic and anti-Democratic policies, 1-2 more right-wing SC judges, Roe v. Wade overturned, etc, etc, etc.

I hope you're a troll, then you're just lying, not either incredibly stupid and narrow-minded, completely lacking in moral compass, or both.

that some amongst us would consider her extreme religious views irrelevant. I doubt any of them would say the same if she belonged to an equivalent sect of another religion. So it isn't mecessarily about her beliefs per se, but that those beliefs drive her approach to governing, as corroborated stories about her in Alaska bear out.

Most troubling about her, right now, is that she's not talking to the press, and that the McCain campaign is pushing the idea that the press is "unfair" to her, same old victim routine. No VP pick in history has been sequestered like this. It is BTW a perfect come-back to her supporters--why the secrecy?

because she or McCain's people have either read this guy, agree with him, or are using his words in the same way they use other terms like "a culture of life" etc.

So it implies strongly that she's at least not in disagreement with the guy.

"Life's the hardest teacher, because she gives the test first and the lesson afterward." This is why Obama/Biden need to keep ahead of the smears and lies, and point them out and how they're part of the Rove teams' tactics. Don't let them fester.

At the same time, it's not a problem IMO to slowly build momentum for 11/4, and most of all not look worried or desparate.

Quick, real readers post some letters before the trolls show up ha!

Is that a response? Quoting Dee Dee Meyers!? I get it, you're either a troll or just, well, not able to wrap your mind around anything but what you're fed. Either way, you won't hear from me again!