I hate the spineless one (Not Obama, Reid), but I love the idea of forcing his hand with a kiss. This is the way to play hardball.

Maybe the same people who lie about how much housework they do also lie about how often they have sex.

Where I live, people don't take their dogs for a walk. They pack the dogs into the SUV and drive them somewhere to walk them. Oftentimes, they rationalize their SUV purchase as necessary because they own dogs. To top it off, they often bring their dogs to the main bike path in town and then leave dog feces on and at the edge of the path. In order to avoid stepping in unseen feces, pedestrians tend to walk down the middle of the bike road (in OR, bike paths are legally defined as roads), which significantly increases the danger and bike-ped mutual hatred, which is manifested in a lethal fashion once the peds get back into their cars.

If you put too many rats into a cage, they will begin to eat each other. Our "cage" is getting bit crowded.

Give us an up or down vote. If anyone who is caucusing with the Dems refuses to vote for cloture, then I'm sure a bathroom stall can be found for them to use as their new office. They won't need much more room than that since they won't have any committee work to do and no staff to do it with anyway. Better to have 55 Senators doing decent work than 60 so-so fascists.

In this case, I think anyone who refuses to fully support health reform with a strong public option should be promptly escorted to their new offices: the basement restrooms, co-ed if necessary. These "moderates" are examples of the sort of human excrement those facilities were designed to deal with anyway.

Actually, it is often difficult to tell which party Reid caucuses with. It sure would be nice if the Democrats would elect a majority leader with morals, courage and a spine, all of which are sadly lacking in Sen. Reid.

Word.

What we really need is a way to reduce malpractice; that would end the tort reform discussion once and for all. Obviously, with physician error being a leading cause of death in America, the physicians have failed to regulate their own. We can improve outcomes and reduce costs by having truly independent licensing board for physicians. Current or former physicians need not apply as they are obviously overly protective of their own (there, but for the grace of god, go I). I'm sure we can find plenty of biochemists, pharmacologists, engineers and statisticians to serve.

They're not. The prostate is a secondary source of sexual stimulation for many males, just like nipples are for females. In fact, a significant number cannot have a satisfying orgasm without prostate stimulation. Obviously, it is removed during prostate cancer, just like the nipples. Fortunately for the females, they don't face total loss of sexual function or incontinence as a result of their surgeries.

Prostate cancer carries a far greater chance of total sexual annihilation than breast cancer, thus there is much greater counseling done. If females are not satisfied with the ten to one research dollar advantage that breast cancer enjoys over prostate cancer and also want more emphasis done on the sexual impact of breast cancer, maybe they should push on their physicians and appropriate academic researchers.

I always disliked Biden because he would not block fascist Supreme Court nominees. He talks a good game and is knowledgeable enough to speak without a script, but I just have trouble with his lack of fight when it came to allowing people onto the Court who would curtail our rights. Two years ago, Keith Olberman did a send-up on the Bush regime's attacks on the Bill of Rights. He ended up with a sole "Bill of Right" still standing, and I lay a good portion of the blame for that at the feet of former Senator Biden.

That said, I did love his complete dismantling of Palin in their debate. Of course, it was a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Good thing for Biden that, unlike Al Gore, he is fairly well-liked by the press corps.

As I recall the news coverage, the school had something like four uniformed cops and several security guards at the dance. If they felt that their campus was that dangerous, why was there no security on the remainder of the campus or any sort of escort (not just for the females either) to where the students' meet their rides home? It looks like the school officials may have had some very prescient concerns. It is a pity they didn't go further.

It's not the school's fault; it is not anybody's fault except the rapists and anyone who could have stopped it but didn't. I feel sick every time I am reminded what a barbaric culture we have here. Thanks for the link to donate.

I loved Governor Moonbeam. He was one of the best governor's of the 20th century (maybe following Reagan and being followed by two other batshit crazy republicans made him look better than he was). However, he seemed to move a bit too far to the right as mayor of Oakland for me to trust him.

Hopefully he can bring back some of what the Golden State had under his previous leadership, like free community colleges and affordable tuition (it was only fees back then) at the University of CA campuses and CSU. Of course, that can only be done if he can get Prop 13 repealed by the voters, and that looks to be as difficult as ever.