Even as satire, Anonymous sickens and disgusts me. I completely agree that free speech is even more essential than it has been in the past, but putting 'Jews', 'should' and 'concentration camp' together in a sentence enrages me and I can't let that slide without comment. My Jewish friends have all had a lifetime of low-laying fear that it could happen again. I have an eight year old daughter who will someday have to take in that the Holocaust happened and I live in fear of that day because I know it will break her heart as it did mine to learn of it. I believe anyone who could throw that out even in satire deserves to be blasted for the ugliness his/her paranoia allows. Is this my problem? Yes. Free speech? Absolutely.

What's happening right now is the best oxygen we've inhaled in a long, long time. Meanwhile, the carbon dioxide is killing us. This is brilliant. Glenn Greenwald's column today, and everyday, is just nailing the truth of what's happening with the Media and with America.

America's true friends around the world support the people of America. In every country of the world people have been watching and shuddering at the insanity that has taken root in the public discourse and the discrepancy between how the people voted in the 2006 elections and what their democratic representatives do presumedly in our name. And the best of it is? This is what America really is, at it's very, very best as opposed to what Greenwald wrote today as the most succinct description of what disasterous policies for decades, headed by old and stupid men who would be warriors have dragged this country through.

There is sanity here for a desperate people. Bless you.

E. Mervyn

and if it takes that, then doesn't that mean we have to do everything possible FINANCIALLY to support our grass roots? The money on the left has to stretch the furthest. Maybe we have to get away from that longer term, peace-time approach that's still thinking that defeatist, 'I can't give enough to make a difference anyway, well, OK, here's a little then....' and ante-up, now, bigtime.* In other words, if ever there were something you might want to invest in, it might be America, right now, warts and all. And right now for me that means thinking what's the absolute maximum that I can do without. We have to afford this. I'm selling my apartment next month and I'm going to contribute at least some of that to Move-on.org, Glenn Greenwald, and Openleft especially. We have no more time to waste.

Do we?

(I remember a poll done years ago that found the poor will give more proportionately than what their wealthier fellow citizens will. Not so odd. The poor know the poor.)

thanks!

mental illness.

impeach!

I see George Bush's relationship to christianity as him in the starring role of the predicted Antichrist, if anything.

I'm not a christian, but I was raised as one, including the seasonal visits to Baptist hallelujah sunday school. I have never, ever heard one thing about W. that indicates the slightest nod on his part to the teachings of Jesus. He clearly has not a whit of compassion in him. For anyone. I will always be reminded, in speaking of W. and compassion, of the story I read of his laughing at the woman he executed in Texas as he denied her clemency. He is, in short, a sociopath; the ideal CEO of the failed corporation of America. The whole world is afraid of his and and his Big Dick's insanity. Lucky George and Dick. Too bad for the rest of us.

What I would love to read about, while I appreciate Mr. Unger's series, is about his relationship to Dick Cheney. Isn't it interesting that we know little or nothing about that?

who always claim the high ground and yet uniformly project the filthiest motivations to their enemies; all you have to do is take what they say and then read it backwards....I now know to take every single word of Bush's - for instance - and turn it around to reveal that, consistently, the opposite is true, that he (and his) is (are) motivated by the worst of what he declares his enemies to be about. Greed, violence, anti-democratic intent, hatred of our freedoms, these are all what they attribute to those they hate. Freudian, surreal, 1984; we have arrived. The more I hear about 'hatred' from the right, the deeper we sink into their enraged, righteous nightmare. What's so confusing to me is whether they are aware of this and are deliberately choreographing things this way, Rove style, or whether they honestly cannot remove their heads from up inside their small intestines.

is so revealing. He is mystified by a man who he respects saying he hates Bush's voice, and reads this as pathology. But this is misunderstood by him....Bush's voice is representative of everything that Bush is - artificial, macho, playing on an American stereotype, Mr. Independent, gunfighter simple and frankly, stupid. And lying, and lying, and lying. What's not to detest?

this person is still put up there to answer questions. What a nit. These question periods are excruciating to watch. And yes, what's up with the reporter who furnishes Perino's answer as to who radicals are?

Timely and painful. The future's looking dire, espescially when the 'grown-ups' in charge can't think beyond the-best-way-to-deal-with-a-problem-is-to-shoot-it, and make it bleed money for their own benefit. America's head is so far up it's bum on so many fronts, it's hard to imagine anyone sane even getting control of the reins, let alone stopping the runaway horses. Hold on. Don't panic, but, it might be time to get out.....