The CNN headline says, Obama's speech for kids angers some parents. This turns out not to be the case. Those people were all angry about Obama already.

Anything Obama does will cause them to protest. Saying that the sky is blue and grass is green would get them shouting in the streets about Obama trying to, I don't know, take credit for rainbows or something.

The idea that Obama wants to take focus away from Orly Taitz's comic opera birther nonsense is actually quite funny.

The networks have a greed-driven definition of "good guest." A good guest is one who will promote buzz and increase viewership. If people will tune in to see what lies Liz Cheney is going to tell this time, and write blog articles on the lies she told last time, then she is a good guest.

Any sort of, say, veracity, is completely unnecessary.

I wasn't disputing the fact that her position as a "reporter? was wholly a result of her family connections. I was merely saying that it is remotely possible that she might not be totally useless at her job. Like, say, her dad.

I realize my comment was only tangentially related to the point of your post.

Jenna Bush is a "Reading Coordinator" in Baltimore. I am not sure what that means. It might mean she has some sinecure with no real teaching responsibilities, and as such grants no respect.

But it may mean she is a real teacher in one of the toughest places in America to be a teacher. I have taught in at-risk school districts, and people who do that and do that well are worthy of respect. If such is the case, I don't have any problem with her doing one story a month.

As much as I would like to reflexively despise anyone remotely connected to the Bush Crime Family, I have to give credit where credit is due.

This happens a lot, does it? Women lying about birth control in order to trap a man through pregnancy?

I would assume that if it were prevalent enough to even consider I would have heard about it somewhere other than from whiners on the Broadsheet letters pages.

Gosh, I had better be more careful believing women who want to go bareback.

All this talk about "one egg versus millions of sperm" misses the point completely. There is a valid scientific reason form the existance of a pill but not a male pill.

Women's bodies already have a mechanism that prevents ovulation. That mechanism is pregnancy. All that needs to be done is to trigger that mechanism by using a little hormone therapy to trick the woman's body into thinking it is pregnant.

Men's bodies have have no mechanism that prevents sperm production. Therefore there is no trigger already in place that can be stimulated. A system has to be created from zero. This is so much more complicated that it is impossible to quantify. That's the reason that much of the research has focused on preventing ejaculation, a much simpler task.

I am in no way saying that this is a justification. I would be delighted to have a male pill, and wish it were so. I hate wearing a condom and getting a vasectomy is currently problematic. Taking much of the contraception burden off of women is right and fair and just.

But this "one egg versus millions of sperm" thing has no useful meaning, and bringing it up is pointless.

Only tens of millions of people, including a majority of the voters here in Oklahoma.

I have had stupid bosses. I have had bosses who are liars. But I hesitate to believe that being a stupid liar is typical of all bosses. Maybe I am just naive.

Clearly though, typicalboss wants us to conclude that being a stupid liar is typical of all bosses.

What else can you expect except that the weak and cowardly and clueless will go to a liberal news site and dance and sing now that he is dead.

Driving home today, I saw a panhandler at the end of a freeway off-ramp. Don't wanna be fighting him for his spot next year.

Oh, I dunno, the Constitution's side, maybe?

He needed to start from the extreme position of dissolving all private health care and having a single-payer system, then bargained down to private insurance with a public option. This is employing standard bargaining technique, no matter what you are trying to bargain for.

Instead he started from a compromised position, which of course he was forced to retreat even further from. Any flea market bargainer knows that you don't start from where you want to end up.

Now I am almost certainly screwed out of health care, because my pre-existing condition will prevent me from ever getting coverage. Even if coverage is mandated, private insurers will charge me a rate I will never be able to afford to pay.

What a stupid stupid stupid strategy that will cause my quality of life to be in the toilet for the rest of my life.

Thanks for nothing, you idiot.

Corporations are "legally" stealing billions (trilions?) of dollars from average Americans. Obama is trying (horribly ineptly) to reduce the theft just a tiny bit. And he is "creating a civil war by "a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms."

But during eight years of Bush actually curbing our true freedoms, not a peep of protest. In fact, there was raucous cheering and strong support.

The fact that this nonsense isn't laughed out of the universe is a severe indictment of the listening and critical thinking skills of the American public. I have given up hope. I just want to avoid getting crushed in the inevitable collapse.