Thank you for making my point. You'd rather be loved than hated, hated than ignored.

What makes you think the 'world' and by that I guess you mean the world except for North America, most of South America, Western and Eastern Europe, India, most of SE Asia and the greater part of Africa, feels any different about what they hate about not being a member of the modern west than they did in 1920?

The Arab states comprise about 450-470 million people. Right up about 3 years ago the total economic output what approx the same as Spain or the State of New York. According to the UNDP annual report series those same states rank at or near the bottom, world wide for literacy, penetration of the internet, civil/human/gender rights, publishing, private and public education, infrastructure development, public health. If we throw Iran into the mix with its 25% unemployment and crumbling infrastructure things don't improve all that much.

Now that's more than 25 countries that the US (aka Great Satan) has almost nothing at all to do with. We don't worry about Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria etc etc they have their own relationships with their own partners including the EU, Russia, China etc.

And yet we're supposed to believe that all those hundreds of millions of people wake up every day, look around at their squalor and shake their fists at Allah for permitting the Great Satan to exist. It has nothing to do with their own failures, economic, social, political, cultural. It has all and only to do wit the Great Satan. Yes that must be it. Of course. They hate us because the King of Tunisia is a King. The Jordanians hate us because we don't have much to do with them at al. And the Syrians and, oh boy, all our ignoring them for 30 years, that must be a real thorn in their sides.

Sorry Luv, I don't answer loaded questions. Go drag your racist nonsense around to somewhere else.

It hasn't really given a Mexican flavor to the Chinese food.

I now wait to be corrected by the unmedicated nitpickers of Salon who will tell me that Chinese food was invented by Mexicans.

Wait for it

Wait for it

Wait for it.......

DENMARK !!!!!!

I blame America.

Trust me, saying unpopular things will get you banned. I'm on my 7th name. Salon and the notion of free debate are like cats and antifreeze.

But don't take it to heart. Salon readers are like the drama club in high school. They were Emo before it was cool. Also a lot of them are just plain dumb as rocks, and it's not a sin to be retarded, they can't help it, they fell out they mamas that way.

95% of Salon readers wouldn't know an antiquity if they were accidently using it as a sex toy.

Point of reference, The great luthier Herman Hauser Sr. pillaged the ruins of gothic German cathedrals bombed out in WW2 to scavenge wood for his later works. They are unique in the history of guitar building in that they are made from some of the oldest wood in existence. The sounds of them are one of a kind, truly unusual and experts can tell one by sound right away.

More words had been written about the Lewinsky scandal than had been written worldwide in total, by everyone ever, up through the year 1900.

Thank you Salon for adding to that useless drivel.

We know that now. If the super delegates go against Obama they will scream it's racism, even where the super delegates are black.

Salon's favorite racist mini satan state. Women typically serve 24 months, men 36. Women are included in all but the most specialized and demanding combat roles, like Sayeret (Special Forces). And seeing how they've been at war for 60 years you could say they've collected credible data.

Evolutionary biology has progressed far slower than the 50 years of cultural history BS cares about.

My wife and I went as Spitzer and his whore.

Because instead of having anything useful to say or do people (like you) waste a lot of time and effort either crowing about how much smarter they are than I am (which to your audience of like minded bullies seems silly) or, they sort of make my point for me by declaring (as you do, repeatedly Paul) that only people who agree with you are people you deem worth hearing and anyone else is a

-retard

-asshole

-fascist

-tool

-evil

-zionist

-racist

-baby eater

(pick one)

or the ever popular 'troll' which is Salon shorthand for "I don't like you".

Be still my heart. I am wounded you don't like me. Why I woke up this morning hoping total strangers would like me.

This mutual admiration society where 99% of the readers all say and repeat the same things to one another over and over and over and where one can look at each day's front page for maybe 10 seconds know exactly what every article is going to say and what every letter writer is going to respond. Doesn't THAT get tedious Paul? Or is it like my mother always said, "The tyranny of the neurotic. You can't out talk them or out last them because that's the nature of being mentally ill."