Jeez o peat and a ball of wax...lighten up.

This is great about Sweden. I just wanted to add that the some states in the U.S. are thinking ahead as well. Here is a story about Indiana's bio-fuels plan. The article points out the massive amounts of subsidies and tax breaks the state is giving these bio-fuel plants. Instead of paying the farmers to not grow things we will pay the bio-fuel people to buy the farmer's products. This will help with the unequal farm subsidies problem the world faces. I desperately want to keep farms profitable--if they are not seconds after the farms fold another subdivision will sprout up. Farms keep land open. Please try to be optimistic that we will be able to do this. America's eco policy as a whole may be behind the times but each of our rather large states are trying to move forward.

Yea! Barbie and silly video dancing continue to swing. Thanks for an entertaining 5 minutes

I first discovered the Barbie song after my brother came back from the National Boy Scout Jamboree in D.C. where he said they played it incessantly. Ha! makes me laugh every time.

Like Heather H. needs a sci-fi watching, congenital Republican and minimum wage earning Hoosier like me to speak well of her column; but, for what it is worth: Huzzah! for “I Like to Watch.”. It is why I continue to pay for my subsrib. to Salon. I finished season two of Deadwood last weekend and now must live on the happy cocksucking, putrid, fucking fumes of good writing and fun acting until next year when season 3 comes out on DVD. It is good to know that the next episodes of Deadwood are freaky fabulous enough to bring Heather such a great high even if it was at the cost of such a dastardly crash into average summer fare. I will give the Dance show a shot.

It is also so good to know that the supply of bitter po’faced sourpuss letter writers at Salon continues to thrive. P’raps this is the Hoosier in me but lighten up youse crazy pigadillos.

Sigh---I am glad Salon is covering this because coverage is the only way the the recovery will remain a national issue. Of course LA doesn't feel like the rest of the country cares... I at least do not care--well not 24/7 like the folks involved in the recovery do by necesity. Quick gov't action means huge gov't waste...the limited pool of public money will be spent on bribes, scams and just plain junk--that is a given. Arrrrg...good I have that out of my system..I will now try to read the story.

The Court put the ball back in the Legislature's court where it belongs. This is an issue to be resolved through the laws not through interpretations of of the Constitution. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about gay marriage..there is nothing prohibiting it or requiring the People to recognize it. If the judge had said the Federal law that defines marriage was unconstitutional it would have added more fuel for the Constitutional amendment folks. Its a harder slower fight but if Gay Marriage is going to be a reality it needs to become law through the Legislature..State by State. I am sorry for the pioneers caught up in this but a couple of marches an huffs of indignation is not going to change the law only the people can do that..which means bringing your issues to the small town meetings, and big city councils one group at a time.

Just wanted to say that my Dad married a woman who makes more than he does (a lot more than 30,000 bucks..where do they get these numbers?) She does the dishes and the laundry and decorates..he cooks and makes her laugh. It seems to be working for them. It helps I suppose that they are both in the same industry (my dad works for the state and his wife is corporate)

That some women act just as jerky as some men do when they have more money should not be a revolution. I don't think this article should be a rallying cry for righteousness parades or anything. The article isn't really any different than what is on MTV that according to all the recent commentary is geared to 11-15 year olds. People with money can be jerks. People with power can be jerks. If Forbes wants to play the wiseacre with Cosmo style article than so be it. I just won't ever buy it.

O.K. I will be first...loved that BSG is getting Love. Just wanna say one thing man...no one is a cross dresser...everybody just wears pants. Other than that Yea!

I am sitting in the Kuala Lumpur airport at the moment because I missed my plane. I have just finished a 2 month trip through Indonesia where we picked up a bunch of spices at a nice price in Yogjakarta and some more in Kuala Lumpur. This article first caught my eye because one of my traveling partners had such a horrid experience with Malaysian food but I am glad I continued to read the interview.Since I really have only been in KL most of my food experiences have been Indian and Chinease.(Ok Burger King as well but they have free refills!!!) Malaysia is celebrating 50 years of Independence in 2007 and there are signs everywhere promoting 2007 as the year of the tourist.(in a positive sense) They recently have allowed Americans (I assume others but I am just going on personal experience) a FREE! three month visa on arrival. This in marked contrast to Indonesia's expensive one and two month Visas. So If you have a chance fly out here and checked it out for yourself while the visas are hot. Plus the spices really are much much cheaper..even if the beer is not.