If I had three kids coming into my home half the time, I would consider it an unbearable intrusion, and bad for my health.

When I see one of those emblems of self-importance and self-absorption, the Baby on Board window sticker, I get pissed. Do they think I am going to drive any more carefully because the fruit of their loins is in their damn car, when I already have my own precious dog in mine?

Among the many irrational cults in this country is the pernicious Cult of the Child, and the letter writer has been facing the judgment of people in its grip. LW, don't get caught up in that. If someone doesn't like or understand your way of being in the world, fuck 'em.

a more egregious example of people carrying their own baggage into a text or prescribing such a bunch of tired and restrictive gender-based assignments--especially insofar as they relate to Motherhood--in my life.

What a bunch of sexist, judgmental asses we have here.

As Bill Maher would say in his most ironic tone: "OH! The children."

I am going to die in a ditch and they are going to haul my body off on a flatbed with a piece of dirty plastic on top of it.

I am so looking forward to it.

is the sandwich meet slapped on the statue head.

and you are right, this is absolutely appalling. I saw pro-reform ads here in Indiana, sponsored by some Big Pharma-related organization, and I wondered what the hell was going on. So you've just confirmed my suspicions. Thanks to the Blue Dogs, I have no doubt that the public option will be trashed. And then what will we have left? Another goddamn give-away for the corporations.

The massive shift of wealth into the hands of the wealthy that we saw during the Bush years continues under Obama.

If Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan had known about this, they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble.

HA HA! So true. From six feet under, we can all hear them groaning, "Oh, shit, why didn't I think of that?"

and now he has to focus his rage on something else. And the guy has a lot of rage. Day in and day out, he rages on. No one with a non-abusive background could keep up that level of rage.

And there's the drug abuse as well. Limbo obviously came from anything but a supportive, rational environment.

I think it would be fascinating for a researcher to look into the backgrounds of people like Limbo and Coulter and Beck and O'Reilly to identify the sources of their maladaptive anger and hatred.

And for Taibbi to refer to Daschle as a whore's whore isn't really giving Lamentable Lanny his due. Without even trying he simultaneously gives Democrats, propogandists, and lawyers a bad name.

The question is, would he suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger?

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.

First, I hope a rat comes up through his toilet while he is sitting there reading A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity and bites his balls off.

I can just see the stinking sneer on his face as he put the scare quotes around the word actually, as if to say, the fact of a person's innocence is immaterial and anyone who thinks that matters is a plebe and a fool. The guy is a monster. Scribbling his stupid scare quotes while innocent people are killed.

In other words, to be a blogger, you have to be part of the reality-based community.

Also, you have to have los huevos gigantes. See sig.

Barney Frank had a great retort for one of the astro-turf protesters:

At the meeting, numerous protesters carried signs depicting President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache. When one such female protester asked Frank a question, he responded with equal parts exasperation and anger.

"When you ask me that question, I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask you a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked. "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis ... Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."

(From War Room)

That's

the opiate of the asses.