Thanks for the synopsis. This format works well and I wouldn't mind if you used it for the Democrats, too.

I'm not smart or well-informed enough to make a prediction but I'm feeling reckless today and want to riff on an earlier poster's hope that someday being a Republican will be a social embarrassment.

I'll go farther and predict that within seven years, the Republican Party as we know it will cease to exist.

There may be a small cadre of people who keep the old appellation but it will effectively be dissolved. For all the reasons you'd think.

Anyone take me to lunch if I'm right? :)

But this time about consumer nostalgia: real-time nostalgia about something that exists in the present.

We're an amazing species and can waste our precious time ranting about...pretty much anything.

I believe the source for this may be Terry Southern in his novel Blue Movie (1972).

Pardon me for posting a second time on this topic but I do not find this strip more than faintly amusing and barely so..

Never had a chance to enjoy this work in it's original incarnation so perhaps I need a backstory but really...

Tom Tomorrow, now HE's funny.

Sorry, BB, you had yer day in the sun.

"the popular TV show "Ow! My Balls!":OK, now THAT was funny!

Thanks!

The word "lifestyle" should be a red flag whenever it's used.

In an earlier era, a "gay lifestyle" meant you wore overly-tight trousers and too much cologne. In the 1970s it meant you had a moustache and a bandanna of a specific color in your right pocket...er, left pocket...er, right pocket. You get the idea.

Craig lives an ostensible "straight lifestyle". That doesn't mean he isn't or can't be homosexual. This needn't imply that he's even in the closet.

But he's scared so he may be unwilling to be honest.

This is a shame, really, an embarrassment and it should have never happened. But people reap what they sow. Maybe he'll learn from this.

I'm being as magnanimous as I can.

...with the government. Underachieve, Non-achieve and you'll get promoted. Through the mirror, bizarro world!

Great health care plan too!

(but you knew that!)

Gen X-ers commitment to an integrated lifestyle or not, dating in the workplace is a sure road to insanity, social exile, joblessness and sexual harrassment troubles.

Not to be done EVER, under any circumstances.

I've done it a few times and every time was a mistake. And there are a lot of petty vindictive people out there: Let the first non-baby-boomer guy get hit with a she said-he said lawsuit and that'll be the last time he has a meeting with anyone with the office door closed.

Words to the wise. Only lazy people or people with no outside interests or social life date co-workers.

Word to yer mama.

I take issue with the few other posters' (at this point) sour grapes. I see no problem with Conason bringing up issues with this candidate (Obama) nor do I understand a poster's demand that Conason needs to provide a comprehensive opinion on all candidates.

There is much too much of a "rock star" miasma around Obama and I feel no resonance beyond rhetoric. As a citizen of Illinois, I resent Obama's neglect of his duties on both the local and national level as well as having serious and real issues with his lack of experience at...well, name it.

While we certainly shouldn't undermine an overwhelming Republican defeat next year, neither should we support a monolithic plank and compromise our values. We're in the state we're in because of blind ambition and venality; we don't need to accept these flaws in any of our own nor adopt this behavior simply because it installed the monsters who currently lurch through the shadows of the West Wing.

No, but most are.

You quoted Dana Perino:

"...Because, as you'll remember, we were part of a broad coalition of countries that deposed the dictator based on a collective understanding of the intelligence".

Gee I have really clear memories of the Administration and the war-supporters being merciless in their aggressive denigration of any intelligence other than their own during the lead-up to war. Remember? The war-mongers among us were actively mocking: you gonna listen to France, Russia; hey we got your WMD RIGHT HERE!

And the cowardice of continually laying the blame on the intelligence apparatus.

Dammit, I just got myself all worked-up and pissed-off again. I'm really getting sick of this, day after day. I've got stuff to do.

I've stopped reading these stupid articles by these so-called journalists and jump right to these "Comments" sections because it's the only place I'm going to hear semi-real opinions from semi-real people on the ostensible topic-at-hand.

This horse-race prognostication helps no one except the writer and the publisher in terms of paycheck and ad dollars.

Otherwise all they are doing is further muddying the waters and blowing hot air. The 24-hour bullshit cycle.

How do we destroy the press and simultaneously rebuild the press in one fell swoop? A conundrum, I'm sure.