If people like Hannity are any evidence, humanity is the virus--we are a sickness of this planet, and I'm quite confident that the global ecosystem will purge itself of infection in due time.

..."Fandango," (1985) with Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, and others who play a group of friends graduating from the University of Texas in the midst of the Vietnam War uncertain about their prospects. There's a good dose of silly at first, but it gets very real about the difficult choices facing these guys toward the end. Good stuff.

As usual, the pro-life crowd gets played for fools by an exploitative GOP that has no interest in actually following through on their social conservative claims. After all, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Everyone knows Sawyer's lying. It has everything to do with Sanford's troubles. Everyone cites the same bullshit explanation for jumping from a sinking ship. Our politics have become total kabuki--it's disgusting.

"Sesame Street" lied to me. Furry ol' Grover isn't lovable; he's a mean-spirited, ignorant fuckwit.

There ARE no good ideas other than doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! NO new ideas, NO innovation, NO expectations! Why even bother to improve anything when change of ANY sort will lead to poverty, war, death, and dismemberment?! So let's join the conservative inbreds and say FUCK IT! FUCK IT ALL!!

We're goin' doooooowwwwnnn in a blaze of glory!!! Wheeeeeeee!!!

"...this fascist communist isn't going to overtake us... Obama hates this country and he hates white people and this is about payback, this is about getting even with white people."

Ignorant racists, all. The face of the GOP.

"The CBO does not evaluate resolutions or proposals, only legislation, and the proposal doesn't fall under that category."

Which, of course, was by design. How often must we receive object lessons in the simple fact that, when presented against empirical reality, Republican "ideas" collapse like the houses of cards that they always are?

The solution to this inane "debate" lies in the recognition that this is an epistemological issue. If those who advocate creationism reject evolution on the grounds that empirical scientific inquiry can not sufficiently explain certain natural phenomena, then they implicitly reject the scientific method altogether. If so, they should likewise reject the other fruits of science--namely, all modern technologies, including medical advances that make modern dentistry--McElroy's profession--possible. You can't have this cake and eat it, too. Either the scientific method is a valid means by which to acquire reliable knowledge of natural phenomena, or it's not. If so, evolution is confirmed by the ongoing investigation of the fossil record. If not, then we return to a medieval cosmology, and mysterious things like aircraft, television, the computer, and pharmaceuticals must be summarily rejected.

Next time you bump into a so-called "creationist," ask him/her if s/he has ever traveled on an airplane. If s/he answers in the affirmative, s/he is a hypocrite, a fool, or both.

Period. End of story. Can we get some adults to participate in our national political discourse?

I kept waiting for Pence to hold his breath until he turned blue. Meanwhile, Mr. "Republican of the Future" Cantor toddles off to salivate at an overexposed lip-syncing peepshow exile. True leaders, they.

“The public loves Joe the Plumber,” a spokeswoman told Sargent. “They see him as a role model.”

Holy hell...a role model for what, exactly? An inbred fuckwit?

Far better to sacrifice the pawn of a political cudgel to gain the greater weapon of an effective policy decision. Isn't that the point of government, Mr. Koppelman--to craft effective policies that serve the general welfare? Let's not get so enmeshed in process that we forget that necessary fact.

"I don't know what the f*ck I'm talking about, so I'll just throw some high-dollar words in there to impress the GOP supporters who are categorically as ass-backwards and dim-witted as I."

Obama is the shrewdest politician that I have seen in my adult lifetime, and I remain convinced that his seemingly stubborn efforts at bipartisanship in the face of a mindlessly ideological and partisan GOP is merely the performance. The prestige will occur when he retracts that hand, takes his case for stimulus to the public, exposes the willingness of Republicans to sacrifice the general welfare for their own partisan ends, and pwns them for the balance of his presidency.

If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to admit it, but I hope I'm not.

Yet another candidate to lead the Confederacy of Dunces. Blagojevich seems hell-bent on winning in the court of public opinion, which reveals his awareness of impeachment as a political process, but how could he be so blind to the fact that the public hates his well-coiffed guts, and that the Senate already has the votes?

To you, carisima, I say this: how is it that the legions of so-called "pro-life" folk line up like mindless cattle behind the death penalty and discretionary war? How is it that the so-called "pro-life" folk habitually march in lockstep behind officials elected and unelected who systematically undermine social safety net programs guaranteeing a minimum standard of living for this nation's neediest citizens, or applaud the financial evisceration of programs like S-CHIP?

Until you people have the true courage of your convictions, you have no business lecturing someone who recognizes the complexity of an issue like unwanted pregnancy and then responds accordingly. Take your infantile intellectualism over to Powerline. No doubt you will find a warm welcome.

Stephen Colbert's conspicuous absence reveals nothing if not the stupidity of the commenting Right. Do these gits not understand that he parodies them?

Next up: a list of the 25 Most Conservative Media Personalities. I'd lay a wager on the likelihood that Colbert is on that list!