The worst troll duo in the White House folder takes a 12 day vacation, the Repugnicons hold a gawd-awful debate, the White House Counsel is caught wasting Taxpayer money destroying evidence in an investigation of Karl Rove, and Henry Hyde dies.

What a fantastic time to down Table Talk for 24 hours! Couldn't you have mirrored the servers? Now we'll probably suffer through weeks of breakdowns while the bugs get ironed out of the new hardware (mirroring would have allowed you to test the setup).

We. Are. Not. Amused.

Now I don't have any excuses for ignoring my emails! Drat!

"Gee, thanks for the attitude there, buddy. I was intrigued by the front-loader possibilities, but you've just about soured me on it, in case you're wondering."

Gee, with decision-making skills like this, you're going to find yourself doing all kinds of silly things. If some jerk who is stopped at a red light flips you off, are you going to run it in response?

I'm sorry if I was rude. Clarren's column frustrates me because she constantly equivocates about environmental decisions, creating doubt where there really isn't any, and often uses extremely dubious logic (for example, a previous columnn where she compared hybrids to non-hybrids using highway mileage, where hybrid technology doesn't provide an advantage). I'm sick of it, and probably won't be reading the column any more.

So you can look forward to more politeness in the future! Rejoice!

But don't make decisions based on somebody else's attitude. Unless you really want to.

It's not going to affect me personally either way.

P.S. I wish I had caught that misspelling of "rinse" as "rise" though...

We just got a nice front loader (six months ago) for about $600. Never made a better purchase.

Uses less water--check.

Uses less detergent--check (Hey morons, if you want less soap on your clothes, use less soap on your stupid clothes. It uses less water, so it needs less soap!)

Gets clothes cleaner--check (Instead of stirring with a stick, a front loader runs the water through the clothes, getting everything nicely agitated.)

Clothes last longer--Check (see above). Also, no twisted knickers that get caught in the agitator.

Clothes dry faster--check (Wringing out more water means less water to dry. Also give the LIE to the dumbass rinse phobia. If you wring better, you rinse better as well. How stupid can some people be?)

Clothes rise better--check. (Contrary to some foolish ideas, a front loader rinses just as well as an inferior top loader, because it wrings out the original soapy wash water better. So there is less soapy stuff to rinse out.)

Less drying makes clothes last even longer--check.

Weird smell? What fricken planet are you on? Empty your washer when it is done.

Anybody who buys anything but a front loader for a new washer is a complete and utter moron. Top loaders are obsolete and should be banned.

Is that clear enough for ya?

Sexism is a two-edged sword.

Hillary can whine about "the boys" picking on her (and her supporters and hubby can echo it for weeks). She can play the lady card to avoid tough questions (don't pick on a girl!)

She can pick up undeniable excitement from being the first serious female candidate for President in U.S. history. That is the best thing about Hillary's campaign in my opinion. You go, girl!

And she has to face Neanderthals who will never vote for a broad. Women who are jealous of her accomplishments. Men who feel emasculated by her power.

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

"Let's try and be nice kids, and always remember that people's beliefs come in VERY different hues."

I happen to BELIEVE that there is a Higher Power behind the world we see today.

My BELIEF is not based on facts or empirical reasoning. It is based on the remaining mystery of existence, and on what I feel in my heart.

It is NOT Science.

I am offended by religionists trying to force schools to teach their beliefs as Science. Science is about what we know, posit and can prove. Science means you put forth a hypothesis, and test it every way possible. Evolution is a theory based on the facts at hand, and has proved eerily prescient in predicting the biological underpinnnings that make it work (DNA and Mendelian genetics are prime examples).

That is what makese Evolution science. It fits the facts, and lives or dies by how well it describes what we are able to observe about the world. Since we are human, those observations of the world contain gaps due to inability to observe, or insufficient human understanding. But what we can see, and what we do know is unanimous. Evolution is a fact, and Natural Selection is how it operates.

We are all free to believe what we find most comforting to our souls and consistent with our hearts.

But we must not mistake our Beliefs for our Science. Doing so degrades both.

Sorry, you already alluded to this in the article, but I couldn't help myself. Just hope I get first letter!

Peace!

Bless you for speaking out.