Can you receive physical items via e-mail? That's one big difference between e-mail and a P.O. Box, for starters. (And I personally wouldn't mind if my spouse got a separate P.O. Box for all the books and bike gear he orders -- it would mean we wouldn't need to go running across town all the time to DHL or UPS or other express-mail places.)

My spouse and have had separate e-mail accounts from the beginning. I don't read his e-mail and am not especially interested in reading his e-mail.

Let's be real. Things that would be excused or ignored in a Republican administration are going to be spotlighted in a Democratic one. In fact, they will invent stuff to freak out over, just as they did with Clinton and Whitewater, or Gore and pretty much everything.

Look at how they tried to play the guilt-by-extremely-tenuous-association game already with Obama over Bill Ayers (hey, if associating with reformed political terrorists is bad then all righties must spurn Chuck Colson now and forever) and even Louis Farrakhan, a guy who Obama never met but who Obama was expected to ritually denounce in a classic HUAC-style inquisitorial setup courtesy of Saint Tim the Russert, Who We Must Never Criticize. Look at how they spent weeks freaking out over Jeremiah Wright and barely noticed things such as John McCain's putting his own wife Cindy in a rather humiliating and degrading "Miss Buffalo Chip" contest at Sturgis (how demeaning? Google "bite the weenie" for an example of the things Miss Buffalo Chip contestants are supposed to endure). They will pump up the volume once he's sworn in, trust me.

Have you done a bar exam lately? Or applied for a job at any major university or corporate entity within, say, the past decade? Employers regularly Google their employees' names, boyo, whether you like it or not.

These questions aren't at all unusual for anyone seeking a job above that of fry cook. It says something about the limited (or lower-level) job experience of the author and many of his readers that he thinks that this is at all new or unusual.

The praise of Romer:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/11/talking-points.html

The evisceration of Judis:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/11/new-republic--1.html

By the way: Notice that most of the crowd picking on Obama's people are the sort of folk for whom Paul Wellstone and Teddy Kennedy would be fascist insects? Just sayin'.

When Obama's economic team rejects Rubin's deficit-hawkery in favor of heavy stimulus and deficit spending, and rejects his deregulating ideology in favor of re-regulating, isn't that a good thing?

By the way: Brad DeLong rips apart John Judis, and heavily praises Christina Romer (and the rest of Obama's econ team, just as Roubini has done).

The praise of Romer:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/11/talking-points.html

The evisceration of Judis:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/11/new-republic--1.html

By the way: Notice that most of the crowd picking on Obama's people are the sort of folk for whom Paul Wellstone and Teddy Kennedy would be fascist insects? Just sayin'.

Dear advocates of violent retaliation against any and all Muslims: Congratulations. You're doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do.

The architects of the attacks want to topple the current government and put in one more hateful, more violent, more repressive to the Muslim minority. Why? Because the more the Indian Muslims are repressed -- the less chance they have to be treated and viewed as equal partners in Indian life -- then the more likely they will be to rise up against the Hindu majority, and the more likely they will be to become radicalized.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it's Osama bin Laden's strategy, as described by Doug Muder (writing as "Pericles" at the DailyKos.com website) in his famous essay "Terrorist Strategy 101: A Quiz". Muder explains that George W. Bush's massive and wrongheaded reaction to 9/11 made a lot of enemies for the US and a lot of allies for Bin Laden. Bush couldn't have helped Bin Laden any more if he'd actually been under his direct mental control.

...then why is it that the GM execs aren't joining Corker and Shelby in attacking them? All I see are Neo-Confederate Republicans and their surrogates, like you.

The reality is here (the third video shows what no TradMed story on this will mention -- the Republican strategy memo describing just how they planned to screw us): http://www.uaw.org/auto/12_12_08auto2.cfm

Oh, and if anything the UAW has bent over backwards to accomodate the industry: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/aam-f29.shtml

And you'll see why they do whatever AIPAC.

This is why J Street is so important: They are daring to push the discourse towards sanity, so that the political price for being sane won't be crippling.

There should be a "wants" after "AIPAC".

One of the letter writers stated that Israel broke the cease fire by blockading the crossings. When Israel pulled out of Gaza a few years ago they essentially made Gaza an independent state.

Independent states aren't smothered by starvation blockades -- or being "put on a diet", to use Dov Weisglass' boast.

Independent states aren't forbidden to trade with virtually all of their neighbors.

Gaza is a bantustan, created so Israel could ethnically cleanse itself of the people whose lands were taken over the last few decades -- just as the apartheidists in South Africa (which whom Israel's leaders had increasingly warm relations before the apartheidists were finally overthrown: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/07/southafrica.israel). This is shown by the fact that whenever Gazans try to exercise their own will, the IDF steps in to stop them.