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?

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.

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

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.

...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.

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.

So much for "...of the people, by the people, for the etc etc." Brrrrr.

*Yawn*

Always enjoy your stuff but please look up the word kowtow.

Thank you for the link paul. And thanks to the poster that has the words "theAtlantic" in their user name.

I was completely unaware that Ronald Reagan had helped "dismantle" anything except our financial, educational and social safety systems, so that was an eye-opener.

And, please forgive, but I only see a world of people out there. There had once been an "Evil Empire" somewhere? I mean, outside of comic books?

Perhaps it's because I'm male but from my married male friends I hear about wives withholding sex for years.

And as a single man with a lot of women friends I notice that once a woman friend marries, she won't share this kind of info anymore. Women love the idea of modern platonic friendships with men but once they marry, they put you into a box with their husbands and all other men. I'm one of "them" after all.

"STFUpistan"

That is GOLD, baby!

Don't flatter yourself. Simply making a sincere effort to understand how obtuse individuals like you tick. I know you exist, the question is: why?

If I ain't healthy, buddy, then I can't do shit about climate change.

I'm not interested in your health plan, Joe. I'm interested in you.

Joe-

I appreciate that other posters who've responded are so well-informed that they can offer a counter-critique on a point-by-point basis, bless their wonky little hearts.

But Joe I want to get all ooey-gooey with you pal, all touchy-feely. I want to know what makes Joe tick, what goes on in that cranium of yours.

Joe, the Democratic political class are a bunch of venal money-grubbers, we all know that. But some of us voted for them because somewhere, sometime they stood for...something, something I agreed with if I could just remember what it was. Be nice to one's mom and your friends, help the poor, educate the children, I think it was things like that. Lynch the nig.., oops, they changed their position on that one.

The Republicans, well, the memories are more vague: instigate wars for profit, shut out the middle class and below with proven-to-have failed fallacies like the so-called "free market" which was never free or a level playing field. Vilify non-Christians, I'm sure it'll all come back to me.

So what is it Joe? What is it about the Republican point-of-view that floats your boat? That makes you wake up satisfied that you've cared for others as well as yourself? Are you a social darwinist Joe, a sink-or-swimmer? Are ye a wee bit of a fascist Joe, happy to let corporations dictate the terms of your life and opportunities?

Tell me Joe, let it all out. Explain how your point-of-view and the powerful white men you admire will lead us into the promised land, the land where America fulfills it's potential.

'Cause you ain't heavy Joe, you're my brother.

I have reached a stage in life where I have no inkling of any of these people or the shows mentioned.

Of course, I never did care but absorbed enough media where such information leeched into my consciousness. Posh Spice, anyone?

Now, nada, nothing, zilch. Not even prurient curiosity. Dee-lightful!

Because you're speaking just like our former president, George W. Bush. Yes, America is the richest country in the world but your implication is that all we Americans share that wealth.

Most of the people here are not wealthy, the wealth is held by the upper 5% of our nation. For the rest of us, we can't afford decent health care. Or haven't you heard?