Most of you need to learn how to read. Seriously. And I am not talking about what the individual words mean, but the overall meaning expressed when words are put together.

Backpedal, backpedal; seriously, what article are most of you reading?

This article is neither a)an argument piece, nor b)commentary on Dan Savage. Honestly. Read it again if you don't believe me.

It is a description of a particular woman's trajectory with respect to how she views sex. Period. Dan Savage (his views, of course, but I feel strangely compelled to make that clear) is used as a barometer against which that trajectory is tracked, and nothing else. Dickerson makes it clear that he (again, his views) has remained constant, and this article is really just about how her views and relationship to, well, relationships have changed.

And if you don't know by now that Dickerson mostly writes Point of View articles, then you haven't been paying attention. I may admit that, perhaps, this is now more appropriate for a blog, but that is a fairly blurry line, from my perspective. After all, Glenn Greenwald nominally writes a blog, but most of his stuff would fit just as neatly on a traditional OpEd page, content-wise.

One more thing: Dickerson writes just fine. Try and bend your mind around the, apparently, extremely complicated thing she is trying to get across (Hint: it doesn't require statistics, polls, or White House talking points).

Let me say straight off that I didn't know who Barr was, prior to this, so I liked most of what he had to say, right up until the end. Then it all fell apart for me.

I like principles. I like to believe that there are elected politicians in Washinton that, even if they have differing principles, act from those principles. To be honest, I also hope that their priciples are fairly well thought out, but I will settle for the having of principles.

Which is why is all breaks down for me on the Clinton thing. Yes, Clinton did lie, and faced the consequences for it. So, is the operating paradigm here, when Barr gets all fishy and news-speaky when asked about it, only that Bush has not been put under oath and questioned about his transgressions? Because as far as I can tell, Bush and his cabal have been smirking all the way to the bank, holding up their collective middle fingers to America, even as they acknowledge their lies.

But that's okay, right Mr. Barr? They are not under oath, after all.

The post from last night that he read was so simple, short, concise and clear. And yet the point he got from it was so far away from what was actually argued that it bore no resmemblence to reality. So the hope that he will get anything from this lengthier and slightly more complex explanation is naive and illusory.

If this has already been said, then I apologize (I only got through page 7 of the responses), but it just struck me that this is exactly the issue. Assume that these guys (and gals) do actually talk to "the people". If they can't get straight what is said IN PRINT by GG, can we trust them to accurately report what someone said to them? I think that Klein's response is just another symptom of the "reporting" that they claim to do. The fundamental issue may be that they just sort of...suck at that part of their job.

I live in Germany, and so am waiting for Season 3 to come out on DVD, so I am way, way behind the curve, story wise.

Still, I am looking forward to more of the show. My only fear is that something happens to Lost, like what happened to Alias. The whole prophecy thing was the most interesting thing to me, until it turned into a zombie movie for the last show of the season. Then, as the only way to extend the show for another season, it ended with, "First of all, I'm not Michael Vaughn". Needless to say, I was no longer interested.

I pray that Lost does not devolve into Alias, but there are too many similarities (no surprise, I know). I just mean that while I also am quite happy to let the mysteries simmer, Alias also had quite a few which went exactly...nowhere. Maybe the Rambaldi stuff got better in the final season, but I'll never know, cuz I'll never watch the filthy MF. I'll try to keep hope alive for Lost, though.