...but I do love the comfort that means home, even if the house is an inherited & remodeled at mortgage expense version of someone else's idea of a good place. Still, the house isn't everything. I think because it is The Biggest Thing when we begin that doubting stage that arrives sometime after 40 we dwell on the removal of that enormous drain as a way of eliminating the heaviest baggage first. Still I would really analyze before making the decision to sell. You're not necessarily any freer by the removal of an encumbrance, I have learned.

I loved this line from Cary: It is difficult to go through difficulty without being made stupid by the difficulty. Boy, have I lived that a few times.

ah--what a tantalizing headline that were.

there's alot of it going around...I have to say that I have never met a liberal who didn't care what happens in the Middle East...the other points can be debated ad nauseum but the hatred factor prevails for now & this D'Souza is yet another shit-stirrer.

As for wanting to see George Bush humiliated, aren't most all Americans humiliated by his "representation" & at least a little bit "terrorized" by this administration's diligent determination to have an American Thugdom---forget citizenship folks---all you need to be a member is a little tiny pea brain, just functional enough that you can make your own way to the toilet.

I am returning to my cave-room now.

I sincerely thank you for those words.

Well Said. Past Time.

I have a policy where I only eat the cookie if I like the fortune.

My favorite cookie-fortune & the most enigmatic was, 'Consolidate your interest while the lights are active.' Loved it, ate that cookie.

Good article, Bonnie.

Does anybody else remember that song?

Funny, Salon is sending me down the memory lane today. When my husband of 15 years decided to leave for the younger band-mate, he left his guitars at my place. Some of my friends (& one or two of his)suggested that burning them would be mighty good therapy. I thought it over but they were some good guitars, so I burned the marriage. So far I am having a great relationship with my things.

Glenn, William, Paul, jojo, Dan D, clownsense, & mbf...

Thanks for the continuing education. I am pleased to be in your salon, quietly in this corner. No idea how this all will play, the real reality--just immensely relieved that it is being called at all & we are here witnessing. It is needed elixir for going forth these days. Minds for company when so rarely they stir in this midst, this soup, this foggy side of history.

I am unkissed from the hinges

& thinking.

Thank you for enabling.

em edwards

It's that right hand/ left hand thing. I agree with the point you are making in your post, but it would be a mistake to worry about how the hate-wing perceives any actions to the left of them. To my mind, they operate, at best, with one eye open & it's the blind one...what is happening needs to happen. It's a small thing but the integrity is there. I call that a good hit. I will look again for where your think leads you, this arena is a source of enlightenment for me these days.

The comments calling for the removal of the comment forum or for limiting comments only to subscribers are troubling to me. This is Salon & the comments provide an extension that is vital. There are also many interesting posts made by non-subscibers in a given discussion. When your doors are open to everyone, the abusers will stroll in with the thoughtful. It is, as a previous poster noted, an awesome duty to attempt circumvention of those who change the flavor of discourse with their hateful spew. And they do change it the same as the angst ridden coworker can alter a work-environment.

There isn't a water-cooler where I work, so I get my water from the fridge & come here. It's a part of my daily life that I value. I don't say that as-oh-poor-me-I-have-no-life but I can easily imagine someone commenting that & oh well. It's what it is. Sometimes you just walk away from the debate when the going gets ugly & sometimes those who engage score a valid point. I've seen that happen here, like the recent exchange with david sugarman/locutus/no name. It's a social structure of sorts.

If having it means using the scroll button a little more heavily, I will gladly do that, even though it is difficult to ignore the venom & remain unaffected by it at times.

I can't imagine reading Cary Tennis or Glenn Greenwald & not reading the letters. There's so much wealth there that isn't anywhere else---just wanted to say that.

Carry On.

It's a new stimulant--this presidential candidate who actually warrants respect. He undoubtedly has mine. The point regarding an outside Washington perspective is a good one...keeping a clear head while we're allowed to indulge in the profound optimism of a thoughtful & self-motivated man occupying the Oval Office. I believe it will take someone of his integrity to restore some of same to that position.

I really tried not to say this...but isn't he a guy you'd like to have a beer with, shoot some breeze...

Thanks for the Umberto Eco/fascism article/link...that was so worth reading--

that Franco Fartini poem at the end "...our hearts are no longer human, but we have read into the eyes of the dead & shall bring freedom on the earth, but clenched tight in the fists of the dead lies the justice to be served"

chilled my bones.