As a projection professional who comes at this top-down, this unit is merely cute and likely only useful in some performance art situation where the projections are used as an effect.

No one will be pleased with a 10 lumen output and 480 pixel res. Tiny form factor is a traveling pro's dream fantasy but it isn't there yet. Not even as a Powerpoint adjunct.

Now I must cower.

There is no "value" in "conservative values" so why are we here?

I mean, really.

I suppose it says something meta-culturally that I'm reassured rather than discouraged by the verbal gaffes of our recently-minted V.P., Ol' Chucklehead.

I suppose what it says is that I'd rather live in this sort of world than the other, where after every Cheney appearance on Meet The Press I felt like I'd been roofied and put through some necrophilial fratboy hazing ritual with those two grinning ghouls (RIP Timmy).

This posting stuff has lost it's shine. Trolls wear me out, kids go unfed. Gotta stop, find a new drug.

"Be thankful for what you got..." went a song in the 70s.

Well, yeah, but I just had to give a billion dollars to a bank that won't give me a mortgage and has a credit card that's screwing me and my rating, strategically, it turns out.

Working folk will be the last to hear the Good News, to get more pie. I see a concerted effort by business to take advantage of the times and repress wages and extend hours in order to reinforce a bunker mentality in the working people.

Create your own revenue people. Tax holiday!

I've already emerged from bankruptcy and have no assets and have been barely employed for close to a decade.

I paid the credit card minimum religiously for 5 years, close to $7500 on a $5000 debt. I think I'm done but, of course, I've loaded another $1000 in fees and late penalties and interest since I've stopped paying late last year.

The issuer has done nothing and will do nothing to help me, instead inflated the high-teens interest into the high twenties: what, that's going to incentivize me to pay up?!

Screw them, I will not be a debt slave. I'm walking away. I will not be controlled by my credit rating or usurious thieves. So what I won't have credit, my budget is stripped down and as sleek as a seal.

But since I pay taxes I would like me some free national health care. No mandatory anything, free health care for all for all of our lives.

No compromises, no profiteers.

You have assuaged my anger and disgust for a brief respite and so you have my gratitude.

This ongoing clown show has worn me out and I am too susceptible to crankiness.

A generous heart and an open soul are the only ways to go.

and I agree with an earlier poster: some of the others here are seriously humor-challenged.

Personally?

I believe Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Gonzalez, et. al. should have their eyeballs plucked out, their hands chopped off, then be flayed alive, hung by their heels, set on fire and decapitated.

In front of their families. In Times Square. Live world-wide feed. Then their corpses should be fed to rabid african cape dogs. What remains should be ground to meal and put in a capsule, in a monument on the Washington Mall that says "Never Forget".

But for a few seconds every day, I grow weary and I want to not be angry. For a few seconds.

Thanks for sharing.

Apparently I missed some recent column where old man Keillor sold us down the river or whatever it was that raised your ire.

I'll keep this in mind going forward. Should I forget, I trust you'll be there to remind me.

xxoo

Thank you for the link, I do not read Keillor's folksiness every week. But I am a midwesterner and recognize the Republican types whom he lampoons in this week's column.

It's a shame. I saw some clip on Alternet where Bill Maher tries to negate torture prosecution. Some silliness about how we can't "afford" to do it.

I understand what they are expressing but we, as a nation, won't be able to move forward unless justice is served. And this includes a number of members of Congress too, I suspect.

You hit the nail on the head.

Thanks.

You wrote:

"It's a phenom often observed in socialist countries."

Wow, so there is something to be learned from socialism! Whodathunkit!

nm

Did you say something? I thought I heard something...

Douthat follows the specious reasoning of conservatism:

First, that simply introducing the concept that women needed parity, solves the problem. It does not. This is a trick.

Second, that women, having made progress (i.e. that they've been "liberated"), are now finding they are unhappy. Hence we need to "go back to something", retrograde thinking.

In women gaining parity in our society both women and men have learned the following:

* that we are all screwed.

*We are all subject to a crappy system of overwork and underpay in a context of vast inequity between classes.

* That we are all subject to inadequate social insurance including health and education, natal and elder care.

* We are all subject to the same repression

The "liberation" of one liberates us all.

You wrote:

"This is the central falacy of liberalism - that only successful people believe that hard work leads to upward mobility."

When I worked hard for 30 years and it was clear that was leading to downward mobility, I started to get suspicious.

I still can't figure out what you were trying to say: that hard-working people should work even harder so they still won't be successful??!!