Interesting letters by all. I love the old Stones (last great album: Some Girls, IMO), & I wonder why they can't recapture whatever it was that made them write so many great songs from say 1968 - 1975 (78 if you want to include Some Girl's songs).

Does anyone have an idea? I hear other bands that have taken their best stuff & wrote other fine songs that sound somewhat like their best stuff. The Stones don't have any recent songs that are like: Paint it Black, Under My Thumb, Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, Gimmie Shelter, It's Only Rock n Roll, Brown Sugar, etc. etc.

Of course, they aren't the only band to 'lose its mojo', there are alot of them like the Stones in that regard.

Here in Kentucky, we can have a sherriff's deputy help us assert our property rights.

Good luck to the LW.

LWM had this quote from Pres. Jefferson (well before he was president): 'I am convinced that those societies [as the Indians] which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under European governments.

-- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787'

Now I generally like Pres. Jefferson (Democrat & all that), but while he was president he sent the odious William Henry Harrison to Illinois Territory with specific instructions to ensure Tecumseh & his crazy brother were deposed. IMO, he was no friend of the red man.

Thank you for the info re Pres. Jefferson & the Seminole indians. I would have to agree with you that he was friendly to them. He was not friendly, though, to Tecumseh & the Shawnee (IMO).

that none of our posteriat noticed that one of the Stanford players had this last name: 'Gold-Onwude' (heh).

I think her nickname was 'Sporting a'.

Personally, I think I would have gone with Onwude-Gold.

Kudos to Coach Summitt & Lady Volunteers.

Don't know if it will pass the censors (although I read all the comments & mine is fine, IMO):

Look, the story isn't that some minor government functionary came up with this crazy memo all on his own.

It is that he was tasked by VP Cheney & his head minion Mr. Addington to come up with this 'legal' rationale, which then became the basis for all the stupid/illegal sh*t that went on at Abu Ghraib & Gitmo.

Forget about the fact that Mr. Yoo wrote this, focus on WHY he wrote it & the consequences of writing it (for the USA).

You know, you might get an award or something

Thank you for sharing a real life story about a late term abortion, Juliebird. When you're talking about abortion, the right likes to make it an academic exercise. We need to show that these are real people facing horrendous choices who are forced to choose the late term abortion as a medical necessity.

I look forward to BS65's response (heh).

Slackie Onassis said: 'you know you're in deep, deep shit when John Ashcroft is your moral avatar.'

His/her post needs a red star, IMO.

Brightstar65 said up above: 'women want absolute control over life in the way that an Arab man may have the right to murder his wife and get away with it LEGALLY merely because she cheated on him.'

If the Arab man's wife lived inside his body, I would say you have a point.

Carrying a fetus 9 months (or 8 or 7, etc.) is not a totally safe thing to do (to the person who happens to be doing the carrying).

Women die all the time from complications of pregnancy/childbirth. We don't see it as much here, due to our advanced medical care.

Brightstar, I know that if you were pregnant & found out you had a malformed fetus or knew that the reason you were pregnant is because some piece-of-shit rapist scum had impregnated you (or your dad or maybe your brother), you would carry that fetus to term (because from reading your body of work, I can see that's the kind of person you are).

Proximity Warning (his body odor probably served as the impetus for the screen name) said: 'I can only assume some of the more malignant pustules from Glenn's web-based retinue have crossed over to secrete their bile on the blog of a reasonably sensible person.'

That bitch didn't take my post (I think due to my leaving the URL field blank or just the skewering I gave her) & I'm as big a pustule as any here (IMO). I just don't post as frequently as some of my compadres.

who said: 'I get all my medical advice From total stranger random potheads on Salon.'

I suggest you treat that headache (or any future malady) with 20 valium & 1/2 bottle of a good Reisling. It's a killer cure! (Garth told me).

bloomsbury stated: 'It's now common knowledge that Churchill and Roosevelt had cracked the Japanese code and knew about the attacks the Japanese had planned for Pearl Harbour and they allowed them to take place and got America into the war.'

I am not going to repost what I did a couple of weeks ago when this trope first came up, but in this instance bloomsbury, you are full of shit (saying/intimating that Pres. Roosevelt knew in advance of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor & let it happen in all it's heinous glory).

I know you work or have worked in the publishing industry & I wanted to ask you if this Harry Potter Lexicon is any different (in your opinion) from the dictionarys put out about JRR Tolkien's works?

I have 2 or 3 of them (copyrighted 20 years old or so) & I don't think Chris Tolkien had approved them or anything (could be wrong on that).

This 'lexicon' (to me) sounds like one of those.

Appreciate your point of view here.

I agree with your above comments on bball (when Mr. Patterson decides to turn pro next year, you'll see the same thing in Lexington).

Still mentally evaluating your comment that all the early presidential elections might have been fixed.