Capitalism has been working with societal structures for a while now and the only people who ever seem satisfied are the insanely wealthy.

Industrialization atomized the family and rules of cooperation between genders became commodified.

To accept that there's something called "work-life balance" is to allow your thinking to be delimited by someone else's agenda right from the start.

It ain't the playa, it's the game y'all.

...and sorry you're bored. But your boredom highlights one of the big issues, the 24-Hour Need for News.

The constant need for narrative and the fomenting of conflict taints the culture.

We don't need it.

Obama golfs, you nap, I refinish furniture in my garage.

We don't need it.

But you knew that.

Including Salon.

Monkeys say: Obama good? Obama bad? Obama not excited enough! Obama too smart for own good! Health care too fast, too much! Polls! Polls? POLLS!

No one seems to care what the people think.

No one seems to care what the PEOPLE think.

No one seems to care WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK.

Can one use a word like 'mumblecore' and retain a legitimate position in a discussion?

It amazes me that Laura Miller is a paid writer but admits to having no more insight nor even interest into Jerry Della Femina than what is yielded by a quick Wiki look-up.

Jerry was a big-mouth self-aggrandizer but he was, after all, an ad man, and his book was enormously popular at the time it was published. He went on to be quite a public personality for years with interests in food but my memory is no doubt faulty.

The ad creative "revolution" must be contexted better too. This kind of thing was happening throughout culture in the late 60s as generations changed.

Your reality distortion field is working so well that you're able to turn a simple fact-based quip about Olbermann into nefarious and malevolent shadow play.

Your resentments are so full of fury, they come through so clearly. It's hard to stop the seething, isn't it?

This is WORSE than pushing Palin, you're giving space to mindless ancillary characters of no value or consequence in the pursuit of page views.

STOP IT!!

Yeah, well I just sat through Obama's explication of his health plan. That's not going to work. Fail.

Back to the drawing board:

Unified, single-payer health care with all citizens enrolled. Full-featured, cradle-to-grave coverage, no recissions, no insurance companies, no exceptions. We all get the same sweet deal forever. It's the only way to have a fair society and protect against profiteers and special interests. There is no other way. Period.

Front-loaded for special interests. Half-assed. Call it what you like. "Cut the doughnut hole in half" like that's an achievement....

These are musicians. They are not "tough" or "bad boys" or "troublemakers".

They're prissy arty performers. The Edge is a geezer and wears a watch cap because he's bald. Jack White is a Johnny Depp wannabe.

They play guitar pretty well. That's enough.

Any of us could do Guy's job, he's just clever enough to have gotten paid to do it for 40 years.

Many men are undisciplined babies due to the way we raise our adolescents and the culture of the last 30 years.

That's one thing I'll lay at the feet of the baby boomers: your children are a nation of selfish (paunchy) whiners.

Now, get back on the couch and your freaking X-Box.

I heard that Pelosi dreamed of castrating a Republican Medicare recipient! Something bad needs to happen to her, know what I mean? ;)

You know Barney Frank is growing little boys in his root cellar. Like that movie with Gregory Peck.

I saw Charlie Rangel eating barbeque. Who does he think he is?

OK, I got nothing.

Like Thesaurus Rex said: craigslist Rant'n'Rave sounds appropriate for the kind of person who might typify this looniness as concerned citizens exercising free speech.

What you need to do is take a good look and exercise some personal honesty. Because what a normal person sees is a sad display of misplaced emotion and ill-informed people with low IQs.

If you see differently, it's not a lack of bipartisanship, it's sane people telling you to join your ilk.

You wrote: "Learn something new every day. This time it's that the Nazi's were leftists."

No, Russell what you're learning is that we're not the pussies you thought we were. In that spirit and in appreciation of your contribution to the dialog, especially in your violation of Godwin's Rule, please STFU.

Single-payer full-featured health care for all, cradle-to-grave, no insurance, no exceptions, for free, forever.

"Hoopleheads"-?

Can I use that?

Yeah, he's handsome, white and his name is Tom. Leave him alone! He was just doing the best he could in our best interests!

And look, while he was there absolutely no one blew up your home town!

Are you folks snark-disabled? Please re-read nick-r's post.

They will no longer be considered on any issue. They not only have lost, they have willfully rejected and so will no longer be regarded.

I love that the Republican supporters who come here with their diatribes and smears assume that any one of us in opposition to their worldview is a Democrat.

I've got news for you chuckleheads: it ain't a binary world. Go look at registered voter breakdowns. Then deal.

There's an old expression: May the best man win. You ain't it.

his lawyer, Butch Bowers, says that it’s up to the governor to make the call on what kind of friendships are the state’s business. “That's inherently subjective, and that subjectivity is necessarily grounded in the person doing the reporting.”

HA HA HA HA HA (cough cough) HA HA HA HA

I love how the right-wing ignorami interpret these two acronyms:

Nazi = National Socialist Party

USSR = U. of Soviet Socialist Republics

Apparently the loons take these names to mean that these systems were, y'know, socialist.

Hey, baby, arbeit macht frei.

WTF?