i agree with everything glenn says, but i think there's one justification the "morals" crowd has for focusing on the homosexual "sin" rather than the hetero sins.

straight people who cheat on their spouses or have abortions or what-have-you can always say they suffered a lapse. They can repent and promise not to do it again. thus, they get forgiveness.

gays, on the other hand, say it's their nature, so they can't repent -- they're permanent sinners.

see the difference? of course, craig is saying he isn't gay, and so by the above logic should be forgiven. but he won't be because the morals crowd would rather score political points.

Bush/Cheney would INVITE impeachment, because it would never succeed -- because Rebublicans won't vote for it -- and becuase it would be a HUGE distraction from further Bush mendacity.

But the Democrats do have to grow stiffer spines and get serious about opposing the Bush agenda.

The only problem with Glenn's analysis is that it doesn't account for how the media treated Al Gore, who was undoubtedly an establishment candidate. Perhaps, once the media gets the anti-establishment types out of the way, it still has to find a target of its scorn, and finds it in the more progressive candidate.

Glenn is being way too hard on Paul Kane, the reporter. All Kane did was report on what the congresspeople were up to, yet Glenn says that Kane is a dupe.

This kind of hysteria and exaggeration diminshes Glenn's usually right-on arguments.

In should be noted that you ignore one of Wright's other statements, which is that the U.S. government created AIDS and spread it in the African American community in order to destroy it.

I'd say that's up there with the studpidest statements of the white evangelicals.

What a lame defense from Conason. The Clinton campaign's descent into Rovian sleaze has been well established, and Blumenthal's e-mails, recycling the most ludicrous smears emanating from the racist, hate-filled right wing, are part of the problem.

Conason's points that the recipients of the e-mails consist of some Obama supporters, and that there's no evidence that any of the smears have influenced the recipients -- or MSM coverage -- are irrelevant. The fact is, Blumenthal is recycling garbage, and Drier was absolutely right to point this out on Huffington Post.

Disappearing movie critics are the least of newspapers' -- or the country's -- problems. Unless, that is, you buy into the notion that every emanation from Hollywood needs to be written about -- which, Stephanie, and I'd imagine most film critics, do.

Stephanie must have noticed somewhere in the past few decades that Hollywood has completely conquered newspapers and the mass media. The film industry is a huge advertiser that expects -- and gets -- blanket coverage. This doesn't only involve reviews, but previews, puff-piece profiles, trend analyses, special sections devoted to entire seasons and general star-fucking adulation.

Need I add that this is all for an industry 90 percent of whose output is crap?

Who cares if newspapers lose a few movie critics here and there? What's much more dangerous -- to newspapers and the culture in general -- is the loss of art, theater, dance, music and book reviewers, and you can bet these are disappearing at a faster clip than film critics.

The movies -- and the audience -- will do just fine, thank you, without vast armies of film critics fanning out to deliver the gospel on the latest Judd Apatow or Adam Sandler epic.

Todd hangs around the statehouse because he's making the decisions that Sarah has to submit to according to the dictates of their fundamentalist Christian faith. It's really that simple.

Feminist? Please.

It's called projection. Villains practice it all the time.

I haven't read the bill, but nowhere have I seen mentioned that there's a reduction in late fees. There's no conceivable reason -- other than to gouge customers -- to charge $39 for a late payment.

If the bill hasn't capped these fees -- $10 seems reasonable -- then it remains flawed.