Wow, Dave Satan, that's an impressive line of argument: Lieberman's Jewish so anybody criticizing him must hate Jews. Your whole family must be proud.

Maureen Dowd has made an artform out of "grating stylistic quirks" and yesterday's was a perfect example. In fact, there was nothing there but grating stylistic quirks.

Essential as the secret ballot in a Democracy, when outraged Hilary supporters come out of the woodwork--as they now have another excuse to do--I really wish there were some way to make them show ID--to prove they've ever actually voted for a Democrat, rather than simply pretending to be Democrats because Rush told them to....

those pictures of Beijing where the air looks like the inside of a vacuum cleaner make me feel very hopeful about the human race.

"After 9/11, stupidity became patriotic in America"

Come on, Tom, have you really forgotten the Reagan era?

and get whoever wins the most gold medals for the U.S. for his VP?

so what ISN'T funnier if you're totally baked?

And I call David Brooks an asshole. You're right in usually ignoring him, Joan, and should make that always.

"Should I pursue a path so twisted?"

Patti Smith

Hell, yeah. I saw Patti for the first time last summer. Gotta admit my expectations were low--figured there was no way it could be anything like the '70's Horses/Radio Ethiopia Patti I always wished I could have seen. And yet...from opening with Kimberly to the Perfect Day/Pissing in a River/Babelogue/Rock n' Roll N****r encore, I honestly don't know how she could have been any better back then. I can hardly wait to see the documentary.

We can only hope these women will decide babies aren't really the kind of fashion accessories they want and will put them up for adoption rather than raising them to be vapid trend-obsessed idiots like themselves.

If we tell the truth the terrorists win!

Didn't you people learn anything on 9/11?

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Do I hate that guy..........

Reminds me of the way a lot of Religious Reich types like to show their humility by admitting they were wrong about segregation. When one such person (can't remember who--sorry) was on Colbert, Stephen didn't let him get away with it, asking "okay, what do you think you might be wrong about now?" Some delicious discomfort followed....

Yes, Jimmy Carter saw the problem and took it seriously. Then Ronald Reagan came in and did everything he could to get us into the mess we're in today, beginning with his first act as president, taking the solar panels off the white house.

Obama's the biggest celebrity in the world because he gives the world hope that the U.S. will finally get past the dark age of conservative greed and avarice it's been stuck in for the past three decades.

I suspect the judge was at least sincere, as he doesn't sound like the kinda guy who's gonna get much consensually.

Never have I wished I was a Republican so badly....

Are the others masochists, tied to their chairs in front of the T.V. by their dominants? Or maybe they're voting for the Aryan Brotherhood candidate or something...

Interesting he admits to being egotistical and narcissistic--pretty much prerequisites for running for president. The Democrats definitely dodged a bullet on this one.

Right. You certainly don't see anything like this in women complaing "all the good men are taken." Boo hoo princess, no Brad Pitt for you.

I'm all for being left out to be eaten by coyotes.

The trouble with that solution is similar to the "let's all just eat wild game" solution to the food industry. There's too many of us. Of course, considering that, you might kill two birds with one stone (apologies to the PETA folks for the insensitive metaphor) by turning to cannibalism.

What's puzzling to me about this is that I probably wouldn't have even recognized Beyonce. Doesn't that kind of kill the whole point of hiring a celebrity?

My Uncle Charlie hates it when someone writes "buy" instead of "by."

He also gets really livid when somebody writes "with whom I chatted about politics with."

Man, and Uncle Charlie and I are barely through the first paragraph....

"conservative on fiscally issues"

sigh...

In most parts of the country, it's lovely outside into mid-evening. This can create real conflicts if there's a good movie out. Stay outside, or go inside a big, dark movie theatre? That's why it's so convenient that summer blockbusters these days are all such crap! You can enjoy the great outdoors and wait until it's dark and cold and good movies start coming out again in the Fall!

On the one hand, I think I'm probably happier single than I'd be with anyone who might be chosen for me by my family or anyone else. On the other hand, they'd probably come up with a better match than a lot of people I've known who married because the sex was good, they had fun partying together, or they were simply infatuated with very little actual knowledge of each other and thought tying the knot would be really romantic.

Barr certainly has a point about money spent on the conventions--especially since conventions themselves are little more than pep rallies, particularly if the candidate has already been chosen (and, as we've seen, nobody thinks it's a good idea NOT to choose a candidate months before a convention). Then, the money spent on campaigns in general is obscene. However, it's easy to say that and a lot harder to convincingly say that a candidate can win without spending all that money at this point. Certainly, Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party aren't going to come anywhere close to proving that point.

More of Berke's anal/rectal obsession....

Don't you think trying to tell the truth to fans or Limbaugh or Corsi is kind of like offering steaks to vegetarians?