Ok, so that leaves you open to being insulted based on your appearance. Since this is at least the second time I've seen you pick out that particular comment, it must have hit hard. Seriously, though, you are on TV commenting about aviation--that must be compensation enough, no?

It may be rude, but, in my opinion it is much better to let such stuff go than shine a spotlight on it.

But he was a pretty hardcore racist mofo.

That's probably not why Beck dislikes him, but it does represent a serious character flaw, in my opinion.

Hasn't worked for me, but I don't live in bizzaro world.

I wonder if having sex with midgets makes you taller?

We need to understand that we aren't going to win any arguments by crying "racist" anytime someone disagrees with Obama. We could lose elections, though.

Peak oil as an example of liberals being reality-based. That's hardly at the level of "reality" at the moment.

"How about comparing per capita costs between socialized health systems and ours when they are not adjusted for our unhealthiness and their cost controls."

Why should you control for something that is part of what you are proposing?

It is unfair to compare my home run hitting performance with Babe Ruth's since you don't adjust for my inability to hit home runs.

Of course the getting past the partisanship of the Clinton and Bush years completely ignores that the Republicans aren't going to play nice.

That was equally true during the Democratic primaries, though. Obama RAN on a post-partisan consensus. One reaps what he sows.

Nobody involved with their upbringing (especially the grandparents) should be allowed near them.

Look at the man that bought them--he was messed up by the Jackson clan so thoroughly that none of them should be allowed near a child again.

Totalitarianism is political--tapping phones does not a communist make. Ok, so Communism does advocate dictatorial political forms on the way to the withering away of the state, but abuses of power by the state kind of look the same no matter what the economic system.

For example, the Communist Party in China has given up Communism, but not power.

"Cues" not "queues," we're following "cues."

Geez salon, that's the 2nd homophone misuse in 2 days. What do your editors do?

I had NO IDEA that the NY State Senate had control over the "Obama Plan."

Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Valium.

Please see your doctor to obtain.

The "white light" was probably just the people of the future travelling back in time to harvest the passengers, since they were going to die anyway.

They obviously need to re-seed humanity with people who haven't yet ceased being able to reproduce due to pollutants and whatnot. I think this was the subject of a documentary film.

See--much more plausible than "lightning." Who ever heard of lightning occuring in a thunderstorm?

Why have a column by an anonymous conservative in a left-leaning publication that doesn't actually do anything other than repeat the same talking points as the RNC?

It'd be one thing if the guy provided insight or some heterodoxy, but all we get are the same tired points (e.g. using the same 32 words we've heard ad nauseum but with a "for example" at the front. If it were an "example" why have we heard only that quote for weeks now?). There is no reason to give someone an anonymous platform to say exactly the same thing they'd say in public.

Ok, we have the outlines of a peace--this is probably what it'd look like (kinda like 2000-2001 vintage opportunity wasted).

Israel within pre-1967 borders, maybe some minimal land swaps

Sovereign Palestine in West Bank and Gaza

No right of return (maybe fudged a bit with some token and/or compensation based minor exceptions)

That's the outline, maybe the world needs to just tell the Israelis and Palestinians that neither side will be completely happy with a compromise (which of course is why it's a compromise) but that's the way it is.

Yes, it is--but then again, in this environment these schools are admitting only a very small slice of those who apply (I interviewed 11 candidates this year for Columbia and none got in, I thought I'd get 1 since admittance rates are around 10%). If you really curved these kids (i.e. average is a C), I bet you'd have a riot amongst the parents at least.

Then who'd pay all that money every year to have their kids attend?

So while a 3.5 might be hard, I don't know if it would necessarily be harder than elsewhere. Plus Princeton may very well do it by percent. None of this is to discredit Ms. Sotomayor, summa cum laude is impressive regardless and nowhere near a D+ cut off.

Contrary to previous posters, colleges are free to assign their honors however they want. The poster with the Yale stats is actually not in line with what I thought was the case when I was in college. Of course, I was at Columbia and there it was a strict percentage (i.e. they did it by class rank and stopped at 15% of the class for the bottom of cum laude). Supposedly Harvard and Yale did it by GPA and graduated 1/2 the class with honors due to grade inflation.

Of course this all could be sour grapes on all of our parts--I guess everyone's own university's policy is always more strict than others (although I do think at least Harvard was doing it by GPA in the late 80s early 90s).

Ducks can't enter into legal contracts!?! No wonder that duck isn't paying his bill (badum-bum) for the used car I sold him.

Dangit. Look, if we can send ducks off to war, why can't they be free to marry a person if they want? We're not talking ducklings here, or God forbid, cygnets. Although cygnets aren't generally attractive until they mature--they are sort of "ugly ducklings," as it were.