Let's abandon a quarter of the US to dust because a few people in the rust belt are nostalgic. That works for me. Hey it would give us an excuse to cede Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, West Texas and part of Colorado back to the brown/red people. Of course wouldn't you be all up in arms THAT we gave them dry land anyway?

Nah you're right. Fuck those major US cities, all the people and the sum total of their economies. Die in a fire, all of them.

that always works.

And in a good part of it women and children are literally chattel. So it depends on what you think success looks like, otherwise.

It Bill Gates had Oprah's money, he'd jump out the window.

Give these over extended middle class leveraged losers some money and they'll just blow it on consumption. None of them will pay down their credit card debt or heaven forbid, SAVE it to oh I dunno pay for their kids college? Let's say they gave you $1000. What do you think would happen? A shopping trip to Circuit City.

Or are we just look for the most GOP candidate we can? Seriously if not then we're just a one party system the Democratic party is just a bunch of political gadflies. We could save 2 billion dollars in the election if this is the reality.

I truly believe that Americans like to talk shit about paying the almighty dollar to the gubmint but what's at the core of it is the belief that paying taxes is like setting fire to your money in the middle of the street. Americans believe they get essentially nothing for their tax dollar. This is where the French system plays to personal interest in the context of socialism. You pay your 50% and in exchange you get free medical care, free or near free college, vast amounts of maternity leave, lavish unemployment benefits and great gobs of paid time off.

Now is that ideal, for everyone? No. But there is absolutely less resistance from the middle class to higher taxes (and $6/gallon gasoline as well) when they perceive that something comes back to them when they need it. It doesn't just burn in the street or go to solid gold aircraft carriers and whatnot.

Google is a thousand data centers, bleeding edge mathematics, brand new software technology. Does he think that Wikinauts are going to replace all that with volunteer sweat?

Right but try to get all your cargo through the St. Lawrence all of the time, for everything under all circumstances.

I mean flick the switch and watch them die? I have. That's my standard. What's yours?

And I DO hope you lassies won't complain too too much when, in 5 years and your drunk bareassed, panties round your ankles face down who was that guy I just blew/girl I just licked cell phone camera panorama is up on Facebook, that employer takes a pass on your job application.

Search engines would rank nothing but porn and celebrity bashing sites.

I'm just cold blooded.

Then she has all the resolve anyone would need.

So you got that.

Honestly, it's a election not the new mocha Messiah. If I had a dime for every electocrat who, we were promised, was the new landlord of the bright shining city on the hill and the dawn of new day, etc etc etc, I could buy an island for myself and make myself a god.

And to be kind, TDS was in endless repeats and reruns before the strike. Stewart ran with his runaway success 2 years ago and the TDS show seemed to be on hiatus from one legal holiday to the next. Sorry, but you're imagining TDS of 8 years ago.

The Dems have a black man with an Arabic name running against a woman, for President and it's not progressive enough for them. Maybe the liberal 'blogosphere' is just retarded & vain & we need not take it seriously anymore. If you set out to be your own Manchurian Candidates you couldn't possibly be more self destructive.

If Clinton leaves then the pundits will scream that Edwards is queer and Obama is a terrorist. And ya don't want none of them queer terrorist types runnin America, dya?

I tire of every Gary K column being a creative writing exercise. Obama is not a concept, he's a candidate. Where he stands on any particular issue is the crucial thing. Or, in the case of Salon, where he stands on Iraq, Women, the Environment and Race. Period. But in either case it would be nice to hear what he stands for and not what pundits imagine is a good platform for some other writing project about some other thing.

Before you have the opportunity to paint Obama as the Man Who Really Ended Slavery in America, you first have to win this election.

Sweaters. I hate all the candidates in NH with their "I am a Presidential candidate" sweaters. They're mostly LL Bean solid colors, a few have patterns. But not too too much, ya damn crystal gazing hippies. Don't they have central heating in HN?

It was funny as hell. I'd get text messages that ran along the lines of "You left your shoes under my bed". Which is double odd. For one, she was married and two - where would you go w/o your shoes?

Because it refers to a whole sphere of lazy drunken slovenly behavior.

It has about 1100 2way G5's. Though to be fair that is outclassed by LLNL's 4608 way Xeon and there are 2 other 13,000-14,000+ Xeon clusters that are in operation near the top of the Top 500 list as well.

The VT Mac is ranked 108 in the world.

$300 for a BluRay player is insane. Pick one format and crush the cost down to make it affordable. I hope Wal*Mart has $120 BluRay units soon. Good reason to consider a PS3 in the long run if no other reason than compatibility.