but, nice try...

It's easy for him to 'protect' a big block of ocean far from anything, with the only real objections coming from the plan's politically powerless opponents.

However, when it comes to something like preventing whales from being driven crazy and beaching themselves due to internal hemorrhaging caused by Navy sonar testing, well, he fought against preventing that.

If the Navy wanted to bomb somewhere within those 195,000 square miles of ocean, I'm sure he'd let them.

The ocean won't be much good if everything in it is dead

He didn't do much to protect drowning polar bears, either.

He's all for putting up 'homeland security' fences that block the migratory routes of endangered animals on the US-Mexican border. He's trying to take, by eminent domain, land from a nature preserve in order to accomplish this.

Between filling the EPA and Interior Department with political hacks and and industry insiders, and ignoring overwhelming evidence of environmental destruction from global warming, I'd say his efforts to 'save the oceans' don't amount to a bucket of squid spit...

you're equally despised by both parties.

If the shoe fits, STFU, Diane. Get ready for her to screw the pooch on Obama's initiatives.

now we know...

PS: ANON: huh?

...and nobody on the right says a word.

BUT - their least favorite gadfly needles them once more by knocking Coleman to the curb fair and (balanced?) square, and oh what a right-wing ruckus ensues.

No wonder eight years have left the USA a near-smoking ruin...

the strip has taken on a new life lately!

Given your post, one may conclude that you fear all Muslims equally.

Just remember, Tim McVeigh was a whiteboy, and an "American Hero" at that, so I bet nobody was the least bit worried when he left that Ryder van running at the curb in OK City . . .

The happy StairMaster president is on his way to a mansionette in Dallas, to be the decider of where to put the sofa.

His successor, Mister Mambo, has cast his lot with Harvard and Yale and old Clinton hands, and soon enough, Lord knows, they will get the first of many comeuppances, and their shining faces will be chopfallen.

Mr. Mambo needs to keep in mind who actually gave him his upcoming job. Hint: it was NOT the DLC.

Chopfallen, indeed. . .

A year is a long time in the Middle East. No doubt Pres. Obama has had a first hand look at the latest assessments of what the Iranians are up to.

I have no doubt that Iran is now trying to build a nuclear capability. Atoms for peace? Hardly likely.

I don't agree with much of what the Bush administration has been up to for the last eight years, but I also am not so naive as to think that after all of our saber rattling, Iran is going to sit idly by and do nothing, especially after seeing how nuclear ambitions got North Korea into negotiations with the West.

It's Joe the Plumber, not Joanne the Plumber...

"It is going to be interesting to see how the Democrat Party..."

YO - Daine:

The correct term is "Democratic Party". Camille didn't even call you on this. You go, girl... NOT

"Democrat", used in this context, is generally considered a demeaning term, and is more in line with the "fair and balanced" left-baiting of the Fox News Channel punditocracy.

Here is the relevant passage from the New York Times stylebook (not that style is within your field of perception):

Democrat (n.), Democratic (adj.), for the party and its members. Do not use Democrat as a modifier (the Democrat party); that construction is used by opponents to disparage the party.

Everytime I see the word Democrat used this way, it reinforces my perception of most of the low-rent lowbrow right wing rabble as AM-talk-radio parroting rednecks...

...that you were so 'inspired' by my annoyance at the misuse of "Democrat" to describe a particular political party, that you went to the trouble to set up a Salon username in Bizarro-world that purports to mock mine.

Really. So you're a curmudgeon, not an redneck idiot. (Are you also Daine Zaccheo of FPO Iraq?) Glad you cleared that up for me...

you've always been thin in my mind's eye anyway... ;-)

and promoting your book is fine with me - I use ad-blocking software so I never see ads on Salon.com anyway.

what's one promo in two years?

Apple will give you what THEY say YOU need, and you will LIKE it, OK!??!!?!

Seriously though, who's gonna lug around a 17LB laptop with a 20" screen? How will you put it on the tray in front of you on a plane?

Apple abandons more good ideas (Duo Dock, Newton, Firewire docking) than other companies never even come up with...

(Michael Jackson) to another (Barack Obama)...

Let's "hope" his hair doesn't catch on fire during a speech.

I mostly agree with Patrick. The media cattle herd to the latest news event feeding frenzy, then subsequently abandon it.

I was fortunate (?) enough to have been brought up during the Watergate era, when two reporters could uncover and expose presidential wrongdoing, with the assistance of the rest of their peers, and bring down the most powerful man in the world.

I have reached the conclusion that this time period was the golden age of news reporting. It ascended during the Vietnam war, peaked during Watergate and crashed during the Reagan Administration.

Yellow journalism has been around as long as newsprint. "Remember the Maine"? If a reporter today uncovered someone with White House credentials at the scene of a break-in, they would no doubt receive a "national security letter" compelling them to keep quiet about the whole matter.

No guts, no glory, just a hyped-up story...

as a rule I cannot stand this guy. BUT - credit where credit is due, this particular column was less inflammatory and more intelligent than most of what he has written for the Times.

Maybe he'll replace Christopher Hitchens @ Vanity Fair...