while a Congressman, Abraham Lincoln said this of President James K Polk: "I more than suspect already that he is deeply concious of being in the wrong; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him; that originally having some strong motive...to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory...he plunged into it and has swept on and on, till, disappointed in his calculation...he now finds himself he knows not where...His mind, tasked beyond its power, is running hither and thither, like some tortured creature on a burning surface, finding no position on which it can settle down and be at ease...He is a bewildered, confounded and miserably perplexed man. God grant the may be able to show there is not somethng about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity."

Can we stop saying that Iraq is on the brink of Civil War please? That phrase has been used for months, maybe more than a year... You can't be on the "brink" of anything for a year. Iraq is in a full on civil war, and has been for a while.

Actually, Nebraska's Senator is BEN Nelson... and yeah, I believe he voted for the Military Commissions Act. Democrat Bill Nelson is the Senator from Florida, but he's just as much a spineless worm, because he voted for the Act too

It makes me sick that this one man's sexual deviancy makes Congress springs to activity like an ant hill that has had a stick thrust into it. Meanwhile we illegally invade a sovereign nation, killing thousands along the way, 2700 American soldiers are dead, thousands upon thousands injured, there's been a dozen major lobbying and similar financial scandals, torture and secret prisons are the law of the land, gross negligence, dangerous incompetence..... and little to no reaction from either Party.

Again, Congress just makes me sick.

The other day in a debate, Democratic Senate candidate John Tester was accused by his rival that he is soft on terrorism and wants to weaken the Patriot Act. Tester set the record straight... He says he does not want to weaken the Patriot Act... he wants to Repeal it. He said you don't defeat the terrorists by taking away freedoms. I think repealing the Patriot Act, as well as removing this President's Authorization to go to War are an excelent idea. It was all a giant mistake

narrative0 comments "the fact that drugs (physical objects with well-defined mechanisms of action) produce reliable changes in consciousness is strong evidence that consciousness has a physical component."

I think most people would agree that Prozac and Zoloft and other "mind-balancing" drugs cause anything BUT reliable changes in conciousness. The wild variations of how these drugs behave in different people is what makes them so controversial, and why they are supposed to be carefully controlled and the patient's health and mental state closely moniitored.

excellent article. Thought-provoking, if nothing else, obviously.

since Kiley and others have known about this for 2 years, thanx to Salon, I think more heads better be rolling by the end of the day

But if after breaking something in the store, the employees at Pottery Barn start to fight over the pieces, what then? If half of them think you should use Elmer's glue it back together, and half of them think you should use SuperGlue, and they are willing to kill each other over something as silly as how you glue together a broken dinner plate....

Then it's time to leave go buy your flatware at Williams Sonoma instead.

Bjorn who?

oh... I thought you meant Bjorn Borg, the tennis player. Never heard of this guy.

Why is he front page news?

If Hillary's quote was "Dark Lord", I would think it's much more likely she was referring to J.K. Rowling's "Lord Voldemort". Darth Vader was a lieutenant, serving under others more powerful. Voldemort sought world domination, ethnic cleansing and was a racist, ruthless dictator who did not hesitate to turn on his allies as opportunities presented themselves. His followers fear him so much they are not allowed to speak his name, and must refer to him specifically as "Dark Lord".

Baseball is dead to me until it gets a salary cap and revenue sharing.

Otherwise you're just watching one stacked deck playing against another stacked deck, year after year. No thanx.

All football, all the time.

what a sick, selfish pig.

Republicans continue to not get it.

No matter how much you put in front of their face, they just will not see the truth for what it is.

Removing this cancer that is neo-conservatism will take several battles and several years, apparently.

Dodd's office is reportedly saying Dodd will filibuster the bill if Reid insists on bringing it to a vote.

Isn't the bill still in committee?... Dodd hasn't even put a hold on it yet, technically, has he? He can't can't until it comes out.

then IF Reid tries to override the hold, Dodd can filibuster until the damage is repaired...

Also... Pixar did not make the Chicken Little movie.

Can you imagine a reporter asking Bush -- as Tomasky asked Clinton -- whether he thought the war on Iraq fits "within the tradition we associate with Truman and Acheson?

You can't honestly think Bush knows enough about Truman or the Tamil Tigers to do anything more than sputter and smirk, do you?

Bush couldn't find Sri Lanka on a map that had every nation that doesn't begin with "S" removed for him.