Obama didn't have to fall into any trap, if indeed there was one, of defending drug use. The popular question could have been an ideal opportunity to make Constitutional points about personal privacy and medical choice, and about the need to stop wasting law enforcement resources on trivial offenses. He could have signed an executive order voiding all those "United States vs. Five Hundred Dollars" cases that racist small-town sheriffs use to steal money from black motorists passing through. These actions would have made him a hero not only to his base, but to a lot of people who voted for the other guys.

But no. Democrats want to keep all those poison arrows in their quiver for use againt the Wrong People.

"Where are all those pesky libertarians who hang around Grennwald's comments? Yes, the ones who want to reduce the government's power to 1% of what it is?"

Reporting for duty, sir! This article describes a prize example for us.

"Look at how big pharma, big tobacco, big insurance still control congress. Example is the Senator from New York."

And then he put a cherry on top by coming out on the side of the RIAA is a major filesharing case last week.

Just as in WW II, we face a monster death culture that, if our civilization is going to survive, needs to be totally kicked to pieces using whatever methods it may take. Obama now understands what Bush faced, but unlike his predecessor has Democrat Media Immunity (tm) on his side. America trusts that he will do what is necessary to win.

" anyone who would deliberately travel back to the worst decade in America's last century, the Reagan/Dirty Harry/Burt Reynolds era, is not only dead, he is in Hell."

Reagan starred in the FOLLOWING decade, and precisely because the Seventies were so awful.

Anyway, I'm another Life On Mars addict who will really miss the show. The BBC original is not even available on Netflix.

When you needed information in those days, you had to leave the house and drive to a public building called a "library" so you could search through walls of printed books by hand. And you can ask Grandma how looking things up in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature worked. So according to this article, if you think we live in the Age Of Too Much Information, there's a handy program you can use to briefly return to the twentieth century. Since the temptation of distraction has existed in all eras, how does that program prevent you from watching the tube or going to the beach?

"Just in case you missed it, Paglia-of-the-idiocracy, here is a link to your hero, George W Bush, holding hands with one of the Saudi Princes:"

True, and we of the dark side hated that scene just as much.

"How many of you assholes actually are paid subscribers to Salon?

figures.

Not only are you stupid, credulous but you also are bunch of fucking freeloaders.

And you drive down the demographics Salon shows to advertisers."

And judging from some of the spittle-filled posts, we're driving away leftists.

Huzzah! Release the hounds!

"Former Presidents have bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, but for some reason it is a "gaffe" when Barack Obama does it. I do not understand this double-standard."

Obama's real problem here is not really that protocol bow. It's his little-noted cutting off of Yucca Mountain funds the month before. After all that brave campaign talk of energy independence and economic renewal, that single act was what assures that Americans will be kissing the Saudi nozzle until their oil runs out, after which will be begging for alms from the high-tech Asian nations.

That's what has finally put me into the "I hope he fails..." camp.

"If a scientist were to be caught in the equivalent level of dishonesty, his career would be over"

No, he could just become a climatologist.

"Patrick, can you refer me to any source that says he was blind and injured?"

Whoosh!

This was just another leaden attempt on the author's part at cultivating those sour grapes.

Traditional keyboards get filled with dander over time and start to get sticky. In a small handheld device, touch sensitivity is a much more robust, easier to clean interface. Once processor power catches up, text input will be by voice recognition anyway.

"Realtors add very little value and it's basically a racket to perpetuate themselves. The main demand for realtors is the infestation of realtors in the housing market."

You're perfectly free to sell your home yourself, Mr. Marketing Genius. So how did that work out for you?

"Touch screens, full-downloadable games, BlueTooth, apps...you wanted the future, you've got it. You didn't realize that the future always sucks. "

Remember when leftists were young people who supported innovation? Today "progressivism", as it seems to be calling itself at the moment, is based on fear of the future. If you're lucky, perhaps the Chinese will let you live in a tree in some park in Beijing.