Glad I haven't yet made the list :-). I almost always like reading your point of view on the topics discussed here at Salon.

I read first to most recent & can also now pick up on some poster's styles (both those who I ignore & those who I like to read) before hitting the sig line.

Many of the people on your list (though, not all) are also on my unofficial one, although I do read BS65 (for the laughs he usually generates) & I too do not generally read Good Celery!, not because I think he's a dick, but because I can't waste my time (which is limited) trying to decipher what he is saying & he has some long posts at times.

As for birth control, it should be covered just like viagra.

who said: 'Obviously, the readers of The New Yorker, all 100,000 of them, will realize immediately that the cover is a satire.'

If it was supposed to be satire, it was not 'over the top' enough (IMO) to qualify as such on first (or second) glance.

They need to do one of Sen. McCain where he is starting the fire on the Forrestal that roasted 150 of our sailors.

I see you're hard at work monitoring this thread. Did my McCain comment hit a little close to home? I just visited the Naval Aviation museum at Pensacola NAS & the good Senator is mentioned in the exhibit they had of the awful fire.

Was Sen. McCain trying to scare a fellow pilot by hot-starting as he prepared to take off? Inquiring minds want to know...

These people would be grandstanding in any venue. Due to the BS nature of these 'military commissions', their preachifying will get a much more sympathetic hearing (in world opinion, etc.) than it would have if they had just ranted & raved in a legit federal court (where they could also receive a death sentence).

Why has my country & her leaders become so fucking stupid?

as a color man because he will tell you what's on his mind (no bland sugarcoating) and mostly because he gives you (at times) the perspective of an elite ass-kicking athlete & how he approaches (or used to approach) certain situations.

I also like Clark Kellogg (who does need to open up a bit more & not be afraid of being too PC) and had the pleasure many years ago of seeing my Kentucky Wildcats upset an OSU Buckeye team that featured Clark Kellogg, Kelvin Ransey & Jim Smith.

After that, OSU never wanted to play us.

I also thought Billy Packer was an ACC ass-kissing dickhead, FWIW.

As others have pointed out, the 'exaggerations' in the cartoon on Obama have no basis in reality, whereas the funny points Mr. Horsley makes about Sen. & Mrs McCain have some basis in reality (IMO).

A more 'even' treatment would have had a model of the USS Forrestal on the mantelpiece, with 1/3 of it being charred. THAT would be about the same as the slanders The New Yorker included in their cover.

Standing by for retort from Jebdldmdm in 3, 2, 1...

As a previous poster noted, these guys can sell ice cubes to eskimos. It sounds crazy (Obama is just like Bush in that he's just as much an ideologe about Iraq), but they have never let the truth get in the way of their preferred story & if they can peel some wavering gullible fools away from Obama & get them to either vote for McLame of abstain, then this particular meme has done its job.

It needs to be rebutted point by point, IMO.

James T. Kirk (who I think is the current incarnation of Realname, A Billion Angry Bees, etc.) said: 'GOPs have a 'hard' enough time keeping themselves off the meth dusted erections of male escorts and pages.'

Although you piss me off sometimes with your bottomless supply of flippant remarks, you do come up with some gems & this was one of them.

Wish I had posted it!

if instead of their fairy costumes, etc. they dressed up in the most Republican looking outfits they could come up with (a good cloth coat and all that) & marched & protested that way.

Due to the costumes, the MSM is able to ignore & mock them.

Don't they understand that?

EStark said: 'Cintra finally gets it honing in on the paradox: to get media attention requires we be outlandish; being outlandish makes it hard to be taken seriously.'

What they (Code Pink & Cintra Wilson) don't seem to understand is that protesting while looking like Mr. & Mrs. middle America is what will really get media attention (plus they will take you more seriously, as they won't be able to immediately dismiss your message due to your outlandish clothes).

You will need some numbers to do this, like say 1000 or so all dressed up like they're going to a Chamber of Commerce meeting.

The signs, also, need to be direct & to the point & not overly snarky or saying things that sound like you want the USA to become a hippy, commie commune. Just stuff like 'Bring our Boys Home' & 'How Many Must Die for Cheney?' & 'Billions for Iraq, None for Americans'.

Xrandadu Hutman asked Klytus: 'Which is the best version of "Blade Runner"? The theatrical release, the director's, or the final cut?'

The theatrical release is the best. The others eliminated Ford's voiceovers (which are intregal, IMO, to understanding the movie).

Do I get to be a movie geek too?

Matt Cable mentioned: '"Midgets in a fantasy world have to hide piece of jewelry from an evil wizard demon or the world will end? Phfft!")'

They can't 'hide' it from the Dark Lord, that does them no good whatsoever. They have to destroy the piece of jewelry.

Otherwise, excellent points, Matt.

And yes, I have no life...