Plenty of "old" people vote, especially in states like Florida ...

Plenty of "old" people are net-savvy, at least to the point of being able to use email (including my mom (mid-70's) and my in-laws (mid-80's)). Razzing on someone about their lack of tech-savvy isn't about their age so much as it's about how out-of-touch they are.

It's the 21st century. Being at least somewhat tech-savvy seems like a really, really good idea for the President of the United States. This isn't like Bush Sr not recognizing a laser-scanner. This would be like Lincoln not knowing anything about horses.

Next question, please.

(Oh, come on, it's about as likely as the McCain/Lieberman "You Kids Get Off My Damn Lawn" ticket. Which is to say, not at all.)

There are fewer casualties in Iraq. And if you really believe this is good news, you've been snorting too much pixie dust.

Fewer casualties in Iraq is, in fact, good news. But reading more into that news than it merits ... that's where the pixie dust comes into play.

No doubt you felt the same way about Republicans when they talked about the Permanent Republican Majority.

Right?

Or did that fall under the IOKIYAR rule?

If only there were a group of people ... nay, let us dream big ... if only there were an entire professional class of well-trained and dedicated people who would actually investigate claims such as the ones endlessly repeated by Yoo and his ilk. And during and after such investigations, perhaps they could report on what they found in regularly-published chronicles. Those chronicles could be purchased by everyday citizens, eager to educate themselves in the topics of the day, both as matter of personal curiousity and as part of their civic duty.

Oh, I know, it's a totally unrealistic fantasy. But I can dream, can't I?

Good grief! Snowballs in hell? George F. Will Condemns McCain's "Posturing" On Supreme Court Ruling

Actually, I generally think of George Will as one of the few honest conservatives left. Not that he hasn't done his fair share of enabling of Bush et al over the past few years. But he's done less of it than most of the blow-hards who pull a paycheck for being regularly wrong in public.

He actually makes sense once in a while, like today.

Of course, there are other times when he's unintentionally guffaw-producing, like when he tried to paint Obama (and Dems in general, of course) as elitist during the "bitter" bru-ha-ha. The thought of George Will -- of all people -- lecturing Dems about elitism still makes me chuckle.

But the terrists hate us for our freeeeedoms!

Seriously, I remember when the US was an example for the world when it came to human rights, when a statement like that out of the State Department might have at least a little moral weight behind it. Granted, there was never a time when we really lived up to our ideals, but at least we arguably still had ideals.

The one thing I have never understood about these arguments, if it were true that these horrible people were captured on a battlefield while fighting against the US, would not these captured people be called and treated as Prisoners of War?

It seems disingenuous to say they're caught fighting against the US in our glorious War on Terror, and then not call them prisoners of war. There are already established and recognized ways to treat such people.

You've answered your own question. If they had admitted that these people were either prisoners of war or suspected criminals, they wouldn't have been able to make up their own rules. This is just one of the more blatant examples of how this administration has behaved -- if there are rules they don't like, they make up their own. Signing statements, "unitary executive", "lost" emails ... it's all of a piece with Nixon's "when the president does it that means that it is not illegal."

And I think all of you who are demanding Yoo's dismissal from Berkeley should remember the principle of Academic Freedom.

The principle of academic freedom doesn't protect people who are clearly incompetent in the field that they've been hired to teach.

This isn't a matter of legal interpretation. John Yoo has repeatedly and publicly made statements that are factually incorrect about topics that are central to his field. If there was a history professor who was hired to teach 20th century history and they publicly insisted that world was at peace between the end of the Great War and the beginning of the Korean War, it wouldn't make sense to argue that they should keep their job as a matter of academic freedom.

Don't worry your little head about it; gay cooties can't get at you through the intertubes.

You can't possibly expect anyone to take this speculation seriously. You're too smart to mean it seriously. It's the sort of thing politically-naive people kick around at the bar after two or three drinks.

It's. Not. Gonna. Happen.

If it's that big of a deal...

...then perhaps Obama should swallow hard and choose the VP candidate that most Democrats want and who is most likely to win us the Presidency ...

There's something to that, but I think Al Gore will be more useful in the Obama administration in some role other than VP -- maybe an expanded version of the Secretary of Energy post.

When Obama is elected, we're not going to be able to relax, put our feet up, and ignore the government for four to eight years.

The one thing about an Obama victory we will be able to take some comfort from is that -- I hope -- the administration may actually pay a little attention to the people, rather than just totally ignoring us. So all our noises may actually have some effects then, unlike it usually does now. But we will have to keep making noises.