By the time 2010 rolls around, we may -- I repeat MAY -- have started to get the bad taste of Bush out of our mouths. The last thing anyone's going to want is another dose, in any form whatsoever. The publishing fool who pays LB for her memoirs is going to keep company with the rich fools who have donated to a Bush library that no one is going to visit -- if it's even ever completed.

Everyone knows humans can't be counted on to act in the interests of the common good unless constrained to do so by some outside force. But the money guys figured out the biggest Ponzi scheme ever and it came to its inevitable end in 2008. Lots and lots of big money guys got out and their families will be wealthy for many generations to come. The rest of us eat shit.

Read Wikipedia's article on "The Tragedy of the Commons."

I have it on good authority, a donation to this group will put every cent on the ground where it counts: freegaza.org

A Palestinian friend, very active politically, says the place to donate if you want to help, the place where every cent will go to help: freegaza.org

"...any minimally decent human being ... would find the slaughter of scores of innocent Palestinians to be a horrible and deeply lamentable event."

Not so, Mr. G. The very people you reference in the elided part of that quote do not share your sensibilities in the least, any more than George Armstrong Custer preferred living Indians to dead ones, nor than General Westmoreland gave thought to the families of dead "gooks" during the daily body counts of Vietnam. Until you realize how little those people care for the lives of those they've demonized into inhumanity, you'll never even get started understanding the ugliness that is Israeli policy in Palestine today.

I've seen a screener, and while everything said about the film's shortcomings may be true, it's still a not-to-be-missed effort.

How does an average visit time to Daily Kos of one minute create "...hundreds of thousands of high-information, highly engaged political consumers"? I know I'm one of those, but I spend at least fifteen minutes at each of several blogs/sites a day, as (obviously) do so many of our regular posters here. Who are the tens of thousands who drag that average down to one minute and what, exactly, are they doing and/or learning out of their flash visits? Or do I misread that table?

...when the pollsters say their margin of error is 3.4 percent. After being so wrong about so many things, you'd think they'd either stop providing any "margin of error" numbers or admit that it's all guesswork because there's no way to know whether people are telling you what they really think or anything that is necessarily predictive of future behavior.

I sure wish more GTBT people were this reasonable. Instead of looking high and low for reasons to take offense, maybe stand in the other guy's shoes for a moment? Isn't that the consideration they themselves have always asked for?

No, not a learning curve for telling the truth. What's wrong with this whole joke of an issue is that Obama did tell and is telling the truth. No one really questions that he neither offered or entertained any sort of quid-pro-quo from Blafogg -- that in fact he had a hand in turning the bastard in. What's provided grist for the crapmill is how he told the truth.

Ready on Day 1, sure -- but that means ready to learn what can't be learned unless and until you're in the hot seat.

There's a learning curve, even for someone as smart as Obama. Look at Bush, 8 years in office and hasn't learned a goddamn thing. To say, "There's nothing there, everyone knows Blagoff and Obama have had little or nothing to do with each other over the years...STILL, Obama could've answered questions in a manner more to our liking," is really bullshit.

I think Rick Warren is a big phony-baloney in a fairy-tale-centric industry. At the same time, I can't see the harm, particularly -- whether it's Warren or the Pope who's up there on the dais on 1/20/09, they're all spouting bullshit, so what's the diff? There's gonna be someone thumping the bible for America, so let it be whomever Obama wants.

I'm also not a fan of the "I want my money back" writer's brand of hysterical hyperbole. I'm a Californian, I know what Prop. 8 is and what it isn't. When you say, "...endangered our family and...eliminated the civil rights of thousands of Californians..." you invoke a state of impending disaster and all-encompassing injustice that simply isn't there. Bud, if your family is held together by love and mutual support, Prop. 8 isn't going to take it away from you. And you might give some little thanks for the many civil rights you continue to enjoy each and every day in this great country.

Bush pardons everybody, then resigns on the penultimate day of his presidency so that Cheney can pardon him. Whta do we do then?

Maybe Spitzer should model his public defense on Cheney's -- which means make no defense at all. "Yeah, I went to a hooker, is that anyone's business but my own? I work hard, I play hard. I owe my wife an apology but that is between us and has nothing to do with my performance as governor of New York. So piss off, everyone -- you don't like it, lump it!"

Yes. At first. So was agricultural GMO research. At first.

Let's not forget the challenge that high-fructose corn syrup presents to any attempt to get a grip on the health of this nation and make its care something we can afford.

"If not, then this really is much a crisis of political leadership as it is a financial one."

Someone's catching on.