is manson's complete inability to find something resembling a melody or interesting chord progression. this is like a 1980s Poison ballad gone wrong, which wasn't even right to begin with.

oh plus the video is stupid.

I nearly despair when I read these things. Far from correcting the abuses of Bush/Cheney, Obama is cementing the injustice. What can we do??

Up until now all he's done is continue their Bush-era incarceration without judicial review. This is unacceptable no matter who is president.

your conscience works properly. you feel pain from inflicting pain on others, even when you are forced into the situation. it's a reminder of your humanity that you felt bad about it. but you do not need to feel guilty. let it go when you are ready. protect the weak when you are able. god sorts the rest.

'i love my iphone

it is so awesome

internet access,

i check it often.

if ever my iphone

should break

then also my heart

you should take.

don't take

my iphone

awayyyyy'

god loves surreality and so do i.

he's up there on the stupid chain!

plastic surgery is no substitute for a great personality, a keen mind, killer sense of humor, empathy for the world, creativity, joy, etc.

if you've got those things too they can only make you more attractive by virtue of your vitality.

let's presume for sake of argument that evolution is really a kind of 'genetic wish fulfillment'. in other words our conscious or unconscious yearning to 'improve' or be more beautiful can actually affect our offspring. our offspring are more beautiful b/c we YEARNED them into it genetically.

so then let's presume you get some surgery and it makes you feel better about yourself. you find a mate you like and you have babies. the babies inherent all of you, including your more confident sense of self. their genetics are thereby inadvertently improved by your surgery.

possible??

What is this BS?

it seems that the moment is upon you. the frustration culminating to a boil. good luck in your quest for freedom.

a smart Jon Stewart-style shaming is always (or at least usually) effective in getting the media to re-think it's casual acquiescence to the status quo. good for you and good for us.

Tom Bug makes me happy

however, i've dated several women who were either adopted, had virtually no contact/support from their parents, etc, and i have observed that these are the women who hurting the most, and are looking for the love of a man, or having a family, as a way to 'fix' themselves. i think it is very difficult to do, and i can empathize with the letter writer.

unfortunately, if an orphan wears their needs on their sleeve all the time, many men will be turned off by it b/c they will feel the crushing weight of having to live up to being EVERYTHING to that person. it usually just won't work.

my 2 cents for thought. sorry you are struggling so badly. there is much suffering in the world.

i acknowledge the difficulties of fighting a 'war' against an enemy that wears no uniform, but to date the Bush & Obama administrations have made NO EFFORT of any kind to introduce a timetable under which a detainee's status must be reviewed. therefore, they are all subject to possible indefinite detention.

if there was ANY indication that the administration is trying to create a structure and timetable so that detainees don't become lifetime prisoners, then i could be more optimistic.

somehow freedom and liberty have been conveniently suspended, either by the marriage of the industrial-military systems that we were warned about, or an equivalent of the so-called "Illuminati" pulling the strings of whoever becomes President.

i won't be a registered Democrat much longer and i would strongly encourage any registered Dem or Republican to abandon their party affiliation. we are not being served.

i wonder if there is any hope of change via a 3rd, 4th or 5th political party?

the direction Obama is going in is so much worse than i could have ever imagined. i don't understand it and i am sickened by it. why why why?

about newsrooms getting squeezed to the bones for profits.

the same thing is happening to all local news channels. they are crushing those stations into skeletal staff to reap the last dollars from a declining medium.

American wages are not going up any time soon. Free Trade is gradually pulling us down toward the economic level of the countries on their way up.

eventually, anyway. b/c the Establishment can rarely stand the mirror people like Froomkin holds up them.

let's face it, most people are cowards. most of the people you work with are afraid of their own shadows, and speaking out is not done for fear of being ostracized by The Powers That Be. this goes for any field, any job.

the Outsider is always necessarily punished. but The Outsider survives and is rewarded by Truth-Seekers b/c they have an incorruptible truthful voice that is desperately needed as a cut-through of the cultural garbage we otherwise wade in.

I have the sad feeling that our policy of indefinite detention is simply an excuse to allow the worst abuses of foreigners for recreational purposes. This is more than at odds with our stated values and liberties. It is fundamentally undemocratic to hold someone indefinitely without their ability to challenge their status. I am appalled that Obama is signaling his intention to maintain this program at Bagram. Even the British have laws on the books that call for no more than a month's detention without review. We need to advocate for a similar US policy before the State starts turning this stuff on us next.