I'm surprised Podhertz advocated just the killing of Sadr. It would appear that the only solution acceptable to a true Neocon would be to kill ALL the muslims, leaving nobody to gather in the streets and lob rockets Israel's way. I suppose that when you have an inherently flawed world-view, the only way that it can prevail is if you eliminate anybody who objects to it.

At this rate, I fear that before the insane mob currently running things is voted off of Capital Hill and out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue there will be no saving us, indeed, perhaps nothing left at all.

Maybe the religious right will be able to gloat after all, having brought about the apocalypse of their prophecies. Though if they are right about the apocalypse, but wrong about the rapture, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Just married and unable to afford the Paris honeymoon we desired, my new bride and I hied ourselves to Montreal instead. We have since made it to Paris, and Montreal did not suffer by the comparison.

On top of all the other attributes noted in the article and my fellow readers, I must add Le Canadiens to the list of things that make Montreal great. (In fact, to this day we place our replica Le Coupe Stanley atop our television each playoff season.) I will concede that perhaps it is mere jealousy, as Chicago followers of the miserable Blackhawks, but if you are a fan of the sport you really must see the Habs in action in Montreal!

We are looking forward to our next visit -- perhaps this fall -- for the food, music and hockey.

Ok, I checked out the link. Sarah's a reasonably attractive young woman. I'm curious: does she live on Mars? I mean, if she just wants to get laid, she could just mosey over to any bar in any city in America, and pick out just about any available man. I'm pretty sure she'd have her problem solved by about 4:00 am. As a woman friend of mine once said when asked about the hassles of the dating scene: "Hey, I'm the girl. I know at the beginning of the night if I'm getting laid or not. What's the hassle?"

With all due respect to the E/C poster, anyone who's ever been on the wrong end of a billing error can tell you that automated flying isn't likely to be any safer than piloted transport. Regardless of how dependable the computer itself might be designed to be, some human still had to program it.

More than that, though, is the clear fact that pilots have almost certainly saved more lives with quick thinking and extensive training than they have cost with a momentary lapse of attention. You don't hear about the likely multitude of cases where a pilot avoided catastrophe, though. If they're reported at all, it's in a footnote in his log, filed away someplace.

Flying is generally among the safest activities we engage in as a population prone to high-risk activities. You want paranoia, consider for a moment -- while hurtling along in an aluminum shell at 70 miles per hour on a crowded exurban freeway -- that the only thing keeping you from a fiery death is your trust in the skill and mental stability of the thousands of other drivers sharing that road with you. Yikes!

I assume from the word "certified" that his assertion to the Tennessee boards was done either under a specific oath or otherwise "under penalty of perjury." If that is indeed the case, what it is is in fact perjury. I seem to recall a group of senators insisting that our last president was impeached -- not for fucking the help -- but for committing perjury in his deposition. Or did I just dream up all that high moral dudgeon?

Hey, if the GOPers want to run against Bill, let me paraphrase his successor: bring it on! Have they forgotten the conventional wisdom--at the time--that had Bill taken a more active role in campaigning for Gore, it is highly likely Bush wouldn't have become president in the first place?

I'm surprised that Chris Wallace wasn't able to uncover all this information. Wasn't he asking the Bush administration those questions? Gosh, you don't think Clinton might have been right, do you? That Chris really WAS just pulling a right-wing hatchet job?

I suppose if Wallace fils hadn't already announced that he thought the old man was senile, Mike would be embarrassed to have sired such a boob.

If one more politician or celebrity checks themselves into rehab as soon as the news of some transgression gets out, my head will surely explode. The message is clearly: "I had no control over my actions, I'm just a victim of this horrible disease." What crap.

Foley's problem isn't that he's an alcoholic, it's that he's a pedophile.

From Foley, to Mel Gibson, to the legion of pseudo-twelve-steppers preceeding them, they're giving folks with real alcohol/drug dependency issues a bad name. People who are seriously addicted to drugs or alcohol aren't generally also racists, anti-semites or child-fuckers. Getting thee to AA or Betty Ford or Hazeldon is a cop out, a fake plea for mercy by somebody with no entitlement to it, and it diminshes and tars those with real addiction issues.