...But you'll let boogers on food slide?

Yuck!

And I repeat, yuck!

...Is because people who write like this are showing up on liberal forums:

"i live for the day when all you ziocon scumsuckers stand the dock for treason.

Believe this, there will be a reckoning you fucking cockroach, for you and all your zionist accomplices hiding under the 'D' banner..."

"Ziocon", huh? First time I've seen this term, but something tells me that as your welfare checks run out it won't be the last.

...for wasting a totally renewable, recyclable resource, pig poop. They could compost it for fertilizer or retort it into biochar, but instead they are choosing to dump it into the Yamaska. When I was a boy, I lived in Quebec for a short time. The place ran on corruption back then. Is it still the New Orleans of the North today?

"Rather than square off in a bloody battle over war crimes, let's return decent train service to the Midwest and test out the German maglev (magnetic levitation) system -- the 360 mph trains -- and connect Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Omaha, Kansas City..."

Before you went partisan, when you spun timeless humor from nostalgic whimsy, you enjoyed a fan base that crossed all party and social lines. Large numbers of my fellow right-wingers used to buy your books, eagerly awaiting the next one out.

Then some clod in Marketing (or was it your ex-wife's legal team?) had the bright idea that by strip-mining George Bush's troubles you could rev up the next quarter's sales. Briefly, this worked: you traded in the broad fan base for a smaller group of fervid radicals who buy your books as a political statement and then leave them on the shelf unread, the way my compatriots do with Phyllis Schlafly. But cross these people on one minor point, and they will turn on you with all the frothing spite so evident in this thread. You would think that you had expressed doubt about global warming.

Return to Lake Wobegon, please. Let's hear more of those timeless stories. Your true fans will return.

"You've presented a blatantly false choice, just as did Keillor."

There's no false choice here, but plain old physics. If we want those fancy French trains, we're going to need fancy French electricity. TGV's don't run on moonbeams and chicken manure.

"But I look at Obama more like Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles"

...Yeah, with everybody in the media ecstatically moaning "It's twue!"

" the more confident Americans appear to be that voters made a wise decision last November. That would be the Republican Party. Remember them?"

In particular, a certain old man you have chained in your basement remembers that he used to be one of us. He thought that by switching sides he could batten on all the goodies you offered to turncoats. His thorough and very public screwing has just shown the world what Democrat "honor" is really like. Go ahead - enjoy your year and a half of absolute power before the public turns on you.

In the only safe place WIndows should be run: in a VMWare sandbox under OS X on my MacBook Pro.

The 2008 campaign meme that conservatives are "anti-science' is totally backward from reality. Since the Seventies, liberals are the folks who have taken the position that everything science produces is mortally dangerous and has to be Stopped Right Now. Take the continuous stream of lies the left has been feeding us on just one subject, nuclear energy. Nuclear waste an "unsolved problem" that remains mortally dangerous for generations? The truth: only if we don't reprocess that long-lived remnant uranium and plutonium into new fuel and medical isotopes, as the Japanese have been doing for years. People, the laws of pysics can't be that much different in Asia! If you people are so intent on forcing us to believe in your global warming theology, you can't go on keeping us from using the highest-density carbon free technology the world has ever known.

On every other topic of scientific/technological development: biotechnology, geoengineering, antimissile defense, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and every form of energy development whatever - it's the liberals who are the Luddites and the banners. The world will be made safe for human progress when, and only when, we are able to bury leftist lawyers in geologically stable formations for a thousand generations.

...If you people will allow all science to run free of politics. Historially, times of science/tech development have been the times of greatest prosperity. For us, the last time that happened was the dot-com boom. If the administration were to announce an energy independence Apollo, I hereby promise to change my vote to Obama next time around.

"Care to name a single one besides nuclear, on which some "liberals" have no opinion save that there may be better ways if we only fund the research?"

Every one of the fields I named. When both the Galileo and Cassini probes - nothing but exploratory missions to Jupiter and Saturn - lifted, there was a shrieking crowd of liberals protesting it because they thought space science offended Gaia. They hate biotech so fervently that they burn down researchers' houses and rip up their fields. As I write, your compatriots in California are trying to PREVENT solar power stations from being built in the Mojave Desert.

And please don't humor me with that crap about "better ways to fund the research." Liberals share a theological hatred every vestige and type of nuclear technology, no matter where or by whom it may be built or to what standards. A few conservatives may believe in creationism, but at least we don't believe that the sun burns wood.