How we have missed you.

It's good to see you back, and with your old friend the pope in tow. And I love the new multicultural look, very oughts.

Who would we hate except those power elites, and their evil sentient corporations that cause war for personal gain.

Are there powerful people who move lots of money around? Sure, there always were and there always will be.

Are there corrupt sons and daughters of curs like the Clintons and the Bushes who happily steer money and power their cronies way of course, there always were and there always will be.

These conspiracies are just as true and just as false as they were when they spoke of the Rothchilds and the Medicis.

There is power, but their mechanations always pale in comparison to the power held by the people in mass.

Which is why in general the two groups tend to stay out of each others way.

The people only rise up when things get really bad, and the powerful only put their boot down just before they fall.

The repeat of this pattern over the centuries have taught those with power to keep the people happy, and so they do. because they've known how quickly power can shift from Coneticut blue bloods to the son of a traveling salesman from Hot Springs, AK. And then they switch just as quickly back.

If you are careful, and keep the people happy, this power switch can occur without you losing your head, if your not careful...well...you can imagine what happens next.

The People keep on, but who wears the crown changes with the leaves.

Not to be rude Mr. Keller, but if you think that Newark, NJ and Bagdad have a great deal in common, then you have clearly never been to either. I live in Newark, and although it has a great deal of economic depression you will find it populated by hard working law abiding people who do not live in fear of their local militia, gang, or other violent organization.

Certainly, corruption and desperation exist in Newark, NJ and Bagdad, but they exist in every neighborhood in every local on the planet. Newark is a great whipping boy for various people, but it is not a city ruled by gangs and where violence is used to silence oposition. I don't think Any American city can truly be described as such.

That does not mean that criminal gangs do not exist in Newark, just as they do in bagdad. The differnce is that their role is compartmentalized in America, and usually does not come into contact with the Average Newarker and their life.

As to the great gulf that exists between the richest and the poorest people throughout the world. It is a depressing reality, but one no more reliant on a powerful elite than it is on self interested individuals.

Democracy and Capitalism at least offer us the opportunity to alter the dynamics of those in power on a regular basis. Other systems are by their nature designed solely for the preservation of power among the ruling class.

That's how the bastard son of a traveling salesman wound up on the Superclass list in the first place.

I went to a sex segregated highschool, and I swear by the institution.

Not having sexual dynamics as part of the social structure of the school allowed for a better focus on academics, and a less rigid popularity higherarchy. With no females to front for, nerds and jocks lived in relative peace (at least compared to some of the stories I've heard about non-segregated highschools).

By College one hopes one is mature enough to ignore the distractions of sexual dynamics, but I supose there are modern reasons why sex segregated colleges might still exist.

With regard to the transgendered, the issue is more with the person in transition themselves than with the college.

If you were born a woman but wish to be a man and are taking actions to be as such, then why would you want to attend a women's college(aside from the obvious reason)? If you are a woman who is exploring her gender identity but hasn't quite fitured out where on the spectrum you belong, then you should stay and figure it out.

It is that moment of clarity where a transgendered person claims their appropriate identity that they should be honor bound the embrace and live this new life. If they wish to stay at a gender segregated school one shoudl ask why. and if their answer is self-serving (I just don't want to transfer) or base (I like my dating prospects) they should be out on their ear.

Or if the school doesn't really want to bother with it, they can just say, that if you are still physically female we classify you as such and let it lay. Those bound by their own honor will leave on their own, and the school can no doubt accomidate the panoply of opinions that already exist with regard to what is the female ideal already.

"FDA disregarded results on food from cloned animals"

Kind of implies that the FDA disregarded scientific results.

In fact what the FDA did was disregard the evidence of the prevelence of ignorant superstitions among the general populace.

Do we want the FDA making choices based on such superstitions?

The information contributed nothing to the debate on saftey, which is the mandate of the FDA.

I don't want them considering the moral and superstitious objections in how I am treated for disease, I don't want them to consider such things when debateing what I eat.

Taking into account the foolish belifes of the American people is the congresses responsibility, not the responsibility of the nations regulatory agencies.