The Army's "top psychiatrist" is a Colonel? The Surgeon General of the Army is a three star billet, if I recall correctly. No wonder know one listens to the psychs!

I am shocked, shocked to find the Chinese government not living up to its promises!

That he got paid for. Salon's standards seem to be slipping.

Class is not the overall driver of politics: if it were, this situation would never have happened. Clan, church, and race are all more powerful and quite possibly always will be.

And jaded, cynical, angry, cruel people generally cannot be happy until everybody else in the room is as jaded, cynical, angry, and cruel as they are.

I think this comment reveals far more about the commenter than she realizes.

I'm working on a theory that it's good for the country when one of the storied sports teams of New York is being run by a true incompetent.

Steinbrenner the Younger appears to be ready to step in and fill the void left by Isiah's departure.

It is abject misery which leads to militant theism, Hindu, Muslim, Judaic or Christian.

Yes, bin Laden came from such a poor, poor family as did his assistants. This thesis is almost as thoroughly discredited as Wolfowitz's claims that the Iraqis would greet us as liberators. Militant theism even arises in the relatively wealthy parts of Christian America and the well-off Hindus in India.

That needs to be a tee-shirt, a bumper sticker, and maybe even part of a political campaign.

Bin Laden hates me because he hates Israel.

Bin Laden hated you (and me) long before he discovered Israel as an issue. His opportunistic attachment to the Palestinian cause was a very late development, which is why it is only recently that any Al-Qaida linked activity has occurred near there. Leaving Israel to the wolves will do nothing on that particular front, I am afraid.

Are we to accept that the laws which protect a sitting President from being prosecuted still protect him after his actions have been judged felonious and he continues to commit them? Bullshit.

So your attitude toward the Constitution is identical to Bush's: it is just a piece of paper when it stands in the way of your desired goals. I am not comforted that you have descended down the Nietzschean rabbit hole and become what you seek to destroy.

Moslems invented algebra and contributed to science when Christian Europe was living in the dark ages.

And then the mullahs later slaughtered the scientists and the philosophers in the name of purifying the faith from the corrupting influence of free inquiry. Islam had its Enlightenment, but unfortunately in their case the Church won and secularists were put to the stake. This will be true of any society that puts piety before the pursuit of knowledge.

Much as the Catholic Church perpetrated the repression of the poor in the Middle Ages with their promises of eternal salvation in return for slavery in this life, current Islamic political thought is backwards, repressive, and dangerous. Even if you do not subscribe to the neocons' rabid "New World War" lie, recognizing this fact is important. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend, and even if they appear to be, it is likely temporary.

I see this as equivalent to the Letters to the Editor in any respectable newspaper, so total anonymity is unnecessary. Allowing the use of a screenname other than my real one is protection enough!

It’s NOT acceptable when those of us who ARE intelligent and HAVE ideas and information to share, are subjected to the likes of “joe.”

And this arrogance gets an editor's choice? This is precisely the air of superiority that costs the antiwar movement supporters in droves. Insulting those who disagree with you doesn't win friends, in fact it appears to me that Dr. Buckley's arguments are no better than "joes" although they are undoubtably composed with better grammar and bigger words.

Shouting about how smart you are and touting your academic achievements accomplishes nothing, except stoking your own fragile ego, Doctor.

Calling people fat "sheeple" or deriding them as racist rednecks may do wonders for your self-esteem, but it doesn't win you friends or elections. At least the GOP is careful to insult the candidate and not the voter. If this is the plan, the Democratic victory in Congress will last two years at most and we will end up with President McCain and a GOP Congress in '08.

Which perhaps many people secretly want. There's no way to snark on the Internet without being a powerless victim.

The last time New Hampshire voters have selected a winning Democratic candidate for the Presidency in a contested year (no Democratic incumbent) was Carter's first term. Since then, they have either chosen someone who lost the nomination (Hart, Tsongas) or the national election (Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry). With a record like that, I think it entirely appropriate that they lose their first place. The fact of the matter is that New Hampshire voters are not at all representative of the nation at large.

I live in a small state (Maryland) that is eternally ignored in national elections, so the people of New Hampshire aren't going to get much in the way of sympathy from me, either. They aren't unique snowflakes who need special privileges.