Whatever you feel about the abomination of war, it's the politicians who started it that deserve your contempt, not the soldiers who died fighting it.

It's ok to be angry about the previous administration's crimes and the current administration's attempts to perpetuate their cover-up, but let it go for those unfortunate souls killed or damaged beyond repair in this misguided mayhem.

It's really really easy to sit at your computer screen and take paper pot-shots, sniping at people you've never known personally.

However, if you were ever to live a day in their boots, I suspect even a shill like you might find empathy and compassion for them. You cannot judge them for the decisions they made - you don't have the right.

then again, that really would be the pot calling the kettle black...

it will be just as successful as the Global War On Terror...

I am a straight married guy with a female friend whom I've known for more than 20 years. We were physically interested in each other initially, but quickly realized that we were just not each others' types.

We never even kissed; the magic just wasn't there.

That being said, we've been close friends all of this time - through my several girlfriends and my marriage, and her several boyfriends.

In the bad old days, we also used to go out bar hopping and watch each other's backs. She is my closest friend after my wife, and yes, there are some things I can talk to her about that I don't even try with my wife. PS - she and my wife get along fine...

My friend and I are able to give each other great insight into motivations and desires of the opposite sex, and we also are willing to simply listen to one another when required.

When I ended an eight year relationship and drifted from place to place for about two years afterwords, she let me stay in her spare bedroom for four months to help get my head screwed on straight.

Some of you guys responding with your snarky ripostes are just plain sad - you really don't know what you're missing, and the ladies aren't missing much by not being friends with you.

I might just order a pair...

by military subcontractors; see Blackwater, Halliburton, et al...

or are they both the same, anyway...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

...and dissing the competition.

Distance healing works. Anecdotal evidence exists. I've seen it work - my wife is a practitioner. www.orbitalempathy.com

Are there quacks? Of course! "New age" philosophy has no more monopoly on hypocrisy than Harvard Med School.

Unfortunately, for the practitioners of the hypocritical, er, Hippocratic arts, if it can't be boiled in a test tube, it doesn't exist. There's no proof acupuncture works - just the Chinese using it for thousands of years.

Yep, scientific American medicine works soooo well. They really belive they "invented" modern "medicine" in the 20th century, and everything before that was just bullshit.

Look how amazingly healthy the average American is, and all the wonderful tech (Ritalin, Botox, Prozac, Propofol, Ambien, et al) we have to cure the ill folks. Look how healthy the people using these drugs are today.

People suffering from Multiple Sclerosis have to fight the system just to get a little pot to relieve their suffering. Not everyone can afford a Dr. like Michael Jackson to bang them up for beddie-bye...

Twenty years ago, most people thought the idea of organic food was just plain dumb - everyone just assumed that Monsanto and science could make a better soybean than nature.

Now - maybe not so much. American medicine is to people what Monsanto is to soybeans...

This is a very troll-ish article - I'm sure there will be hundreds of comments.

It's in the news. Scientifically proven. It must be true.

LONDON (Reuters) - Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion in 2007.

A systematic review of 162 scientific papers published in the scientific literature over the last 50 years, however, found there was no significant difference.

"A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance," said Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors.

"Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority."

The results of research, which was commissioned by the British government's Food Standards Agency, were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Sales of organic food have fallen in some markets, including Britain, as recession has led consumers to cut back on purchases.

The Soil Association said in April that growth in sales of organic products in Britain slowed to just 1.7 percent in 2008, well below the average annual growth rate of 26 percent over the last decade, following a plunge in demand at the end of the year.

and spike it with Hillbilly Heroin...

After he's unconscious, they could ship Rush off to Area 51 and replace him with an anamatronic double.

Maybe the aliens could find Rush's brain - check the posterior region. A fairly long probe oughta do it.

I often disagree with Cary, but you're right on in this case. I used to be the same boyfriend to an ex-girlfriend, and it is indeed about fear: of conformity, commitment, responsibility.

He may or may not clean up his act if he moves out, but he'll never do it as long as she enables him.