But if it does they'll be the first ones to scream "racism". In other words everyone else is a bigot and a monster but they, and they alone are noble, pure and good.

Which if you look at it is part of Wright's narrative in the first place. He's the kind of guy who tells you everyone is a racist, even if they don't know it, especially if they say they're not.

But in the big scheme of things, no it probably won't hurt him. The election will be a tie, like all the other recent ones and it will decided in some bizarre way that no one is happy about. I would say 50/50 this Presidential election will wind up in the Supreme Court too and we all know how that goes.

I think the real danger is that the Obamaniacs themselves run the risk of turning this whole election into a referendum on race and that may blow in their faces.

Because no one can fuck up this election in the wake of the worst American debacle in a hundred years the like the Democratic party. What's next? Will Obama find a lesbian midget in a wheelchair for his VP partner? Will Hillary appear on American Idol? Will Obama declare himself indeed the real one true Messiah? Will the delegates riot with each other and burn the building down?

You never can tell, there's still time for the Dems to screw this into the ground at Mach 2.

Why have I been seeing a huge box ad on every Salon page for the past two days that says

"Should Hillary Quit"

You folks here have got to be a new kind of stupid, never seen before.

No you don't. You're sure I'm an ignorant redneck truck driving republican gated community asshole who should be tied to a pole and shot in the coming revolution. But that's ok, I forgive you.

If a million monkeys hammered at a million typewriters for a million years, you'd still be working the second shift at Applebees.

Anything not completely with the official politik, the one true credo, is scorned, hated, insulted.

This is why tech reviews are generally a waste of time. The fans are fans because they are fans and everyone else is a hater because it gives them something to do. I pointed out once that not having a removable battery in the Mac Air seemed like a trivial thing until apparently every globe trotting geek on the planet told me how their very life would be imperiled if they couldn't play games on that 17 hr flight they make weekly between NY and Singapore. Or whatever. I guess what it comes down to is, whatever is important to you is so vital so crucial that there's no such thing as compromise for that one holy feature. No one else cares about it, they have their own things they can't live without.

But here's a hint: 97% of all computer owners out there never even know about 97% of the functions on their computers. This is the one truth that Apple gets. The Mac Book air is small. That's all you need to know about it. Nothing else is germane in any way. Not the guts, not the feature set, not the things it DOESN'T have, not the performance. Nothing.

And geeks and tards never understand that. They're babbling to each other about liquid cooled RAM because they think it will give them the 0.000034% performance boost they need. And boy do they need it. It is oxygen itself.

If you don't believe me, go to any weekend cycle (bicycles) and make a mental list of the over 45 year olds riding $4-6,000 rigs. It's quite a bit. But neither can you tell them that the torsional rigidity of that kevlar/carbon fibre wheel isn't going to make a damn bit of difference to a middle aged guy who's 25lbs overweight and still smokes cigars occasionally.

It's that they're prejudiced about different things in different ways. American Ignorance is like a mighty mighty stream.

Everything is inexorably becoming half assed & lazy. Sure, they didn't actually kill anyone this time but soon enough the creeping sands of dumbass third world standards, laziness, drunken corrupt bad management, I'm sorry sir I'm terribly unable to help you will eventually kill someone. And that's fine. C- is the new A.

Of Salon promising, practically stroking themselves, over the prospect (which in the real world is zero point zero zero) of a war with Iran. But - - - I makes good copy I suppose. Filler really.

Wow. What next, Best Anti War Car Commercials of 2008?

Safari is the One True Browser, Farhad.

But I imagine there's a whole litany of sociology about the conflicted relationship black men have with a caring yet overbearing control freak. It's kind of funny the way all the stock characters from ethnic theater are. Everyone can relate to them.

thank you for finally disclosing your own paranoid delusions of omniscience.

But I'm irritated that about a quarter of the inventory at Blockbuster is the current crop of 300 thousand dozen Tyler Perry movies. All with the name "Tyler Perry" in them.

It's like Nuclear Proliferation. You can't wave your wand and make the knowledge of nuclear weapons technology disappear. I'm afraid the proverbial cat is out of the proverbial bag on this. No President be they Clinton or Obama will be able to resist this and they won't want to either. And in all technological reality, if the US doesn't do it, everyone else will proceed in their efforts to do it anyway.

For instance, the French equivalent of the CIA has as part of its official charter, the responsibility to perform industrial espionage against anyone or any country. It's their law to spy on anyone for any reason, ostensibly in the name of economic strategic security. It's unlikely that were the US to claim to plan to unwind their own programs, that anyone else would a) believe them or b) follow suit.