ok - i didn't turn out to be a literary critic obviously, but i do remember which book first totally got me lost in my own world and into reading and i feel compelled to blurt it out here haha

- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl. All his books were really dreamy to me as a kid. ahhhhhh...

oddly, I never read salon's music or art articles, preferring this site for the politics. however, i happened to start reading this here article and realized that a music reviewer was, for once, speaking a language i could understand.

lo and behold i check the author's name and its simon reynolds! no wonder why! this guy knows ALOT about the production of AND history of techno & electronic music and here he has written a rock and r&b review that an electronic music lover could really get into.

funny is all - hope to see more reviews from this author.

that was the first thing that popped in my mind when i read this.

the fact that 3 people piped in on it that reference leads me to believe i have something in common with the salon readership hehe.

what goes around comes around i suppose. the young ones was also about a total bunch of selfish losers. the show was awesome.

the only thing better was the skit 2 episode from the comic strip (with young ones people and Jeniffer Saunders) - BAD NEWS!

i was just watching the episode of the young ones on youtube when motorhead makes an appearance!

McCain's campaign... what a bunch of whiners.

That dark blue strip basically maps Appalachia and the path the scots and irish took as they moved into that area.

the REAL 3rd antichrist?

and am voting for OBAMA.

anyone who isn't is a douche.

The best article I have EVER read on Salon.

(I count Glenn Greenwald as blog posts otherwise I couldn't say this).

HAHAHAHAHAH

HYPOCRITES!

so which is it?

everyone leading up to mccain BASHED the dems. but he wants to reach out to them.

i call BULLSHIT on all of them!

it wasn't that bad. at least there was this line:

"Don't pay too much attention to do's and don'ts. "

Obama doesn't need your advice. This is just stupid.

i shed tears...

If you vote for John Mccain... You are a fucking idiot.

Republicans in Dem clothing suck. Get em' out!

and anyone who even considers voting for him is a fucktard...

republicans love having a huge corporate cock up their asses.

so what can you do? diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

eat a dick!

:)

Code pink acts like this because they want to. It's their life and that's how they want to live it.

Get off your ass if you have a problem with it and "start your own scene."

It's not good satire. It's not subtle. I am pretty sure SNL could have pulled something like this off but the New Yorker gets a big fat fail!

But the thing that seems so unfair is if there was a Democrat in the oval office, and a fringe far right republican was presenting articles of impeachment for even the most ridiculous reasons, it would be HUGE news!

And it sucks...

I don't even own a bike but its because biking in rural USA is absurd.

I often hear a lot of people talk about how it would not be possible to do in USA what they do in Europe. Their argument is that countries like the Netherlands are flat and therefore more conducive to biking. They say USA could never have bike paths everywhere because of terrain. This is total crapola. I was visiting a friend in Mindelheim, Germany, which is a rural and not completely flat part of the country (Unterallgäu). There are bike paths EVERYWHERE. They go through farm fields, parks, along the streets. It's amazing and it made riding a bicycle a pleasure.

Not to mention the train system (Die Bahn), kicks Amtrack's sorry ass.

And the climate argument? Montreal and Quebec in general is LIGHTYEARS ahead of any city in the USA as far as biking goes.

How awesome is their green route - one of the best bike routes in the WORLD: http://www.routeverte.com/ang/

Yeah so it can be done if cities did any planning at all. I agree with you here Leonard. It is SO frustrating. ARGHGH.

i have had a gut feeling this was the reason oil was going up.

bahhhhhhhh

awesome...

the border with canada is ridiculous to cross. our dept of homeland security is THE RUDEST "security" force i have encountered in travelling through any civilized nation. it is completely unreal how much unchecked power they have and they wield with impunity.

the only thing i didnt like about this article is how it made me seethe with memories of those fucking assholes.

we live in a police state - just take a drive to canada and back and you will experience it.

fire this dipshit

you are a douchebag. i live in west virginia. you BETTER BELIEVE people are bitter and upset that the government does JACK SHIT for them.

What Obama said is 100% true and the MSM is missing the point. Normal Americans, however, are not.

i read this column daily. i read media matters. i read the indypendent. i haven't subscribed to cable for 3 years now because the news is such a sham.

sometimes out of frustration i write to cnn online and ask them things like - why is the bbc covering our economy better than you? sometimes i write my elected representatives.

i have to admit, i actually prefer drudge to any of the major news sources because at this point i think drudge is actually BETTER than them. (depressing thought).

i hope things change. i really do. i would love to know any proactive steps others are taking to try to change the establishment and open people's eyes.