The single most horrifying thing I've learned today that crackpot Camille, the Seer of Tawdry Nothings, is a supporter and contributor of Obama. Well, maybe he's using those death-ray eyes on her, hypnotizing her into giving him money.

The writer is obviously not the calibre of customer Mr. Jobs desires. Her services are no longer required.

Honestly, though, why is it she's dealt with all these "issues." She's a) a klutz, b) had terrible bad luck, or c) is unlucky enough to have an AT&T phone in San Francisco, a city in which AT&T's reception is particularly bad.

I have experienced two of these issues. One, I get five bars of reception everywhere I go in Burbank/Glendale. Except my home. Don't call me at home on that number. I will talk to you for a couple of minutes and then drop your call. Annoying. Everywhere but within 50 feet of my house, no problem.

The battery? She's not doing something right. I had a mystifying couple of days where I lost battery by about 4:00 pm every day. Grr. However, I discovered that I had made the mistake of giving the wifi at home and at work the same name. The phone would recognize the name from home, try again and again to log in or send messages, until the battery died. Once I diagnosed that, and particularly since the revision to the latest software, the iPhone lasts all day, until midnight at least. I've even forgotten to charge it, and there's still half left the next morning.

I think this video store clerk has lived off an inflated reputation for far too long. He's never, ever done anything that is anything but a camp piece about a genre. Still looking for any real humanity here. Ptooey, Tarantino. Make a tearjerker for Lifetime just as an exercise. Work on real humans with real emotions. Can't do it, can you? Why not?

First, the woman at the mike, with the Obama = Nazi picture, is most likely a Larouchie. You can see these posters at the local supermarket where they stand in my neighborhood, and the woman has the reactions of a trained groupie. The whole videotape would show with certainty.

Second, this tape was also on the Hannity show last night, and was used as an example of the "elitism" of the liberals, who have such contempt for "dissenters". Proof of our Nazism, I guess.

So, the Republican base is Larouche + gun nuts and the militias -- that's where at least some of the rifles at the Arizona event came from. Our base is, what, MoveOn? Now, who's being shamed for their irrational base? We shouldn't be surprised. This is what they do.

Baucus, at least, won 73% of the vote in 2008, and he's been there since 1978. He's collected an enormous amount of money from healthcare then, and since then. Only in July did he start turning away the moolah from insurers and other parties he's writing the bill for. And of course, who thinks that, if he manages to kill the public option, he won't get a ton of grateful money after the fact. Re-election guaranteed... in 2014. Of course, maybe he'll get tired of people spitting on him in the meanwhile and will retire.

I think Obama has to start thinking like LBJ. What's Baucus want? A nice dam, say, the Max Baucus Dam, that would have his name carved on granite? A little screw you money? Give it to him. Sweet talk him and tell him what a giant he is and how Montanans are lucky. And promise him -- in 2014 -- that if the health care lobbyists shut off the tap, the DSCC will come through for him, big time. A statue, that's what they'll put up for you, Max. Baucus, champion of the little guy. And if he votes against it, he'll end up skinned and gutted on a cabin door in Big Sky Country.

I'm sure this article is very descriptive of the emotions of many of my fellow liberals: Vick's crime, being cruel to animals, is bad, I know. It indicates a lack of compassion for his fellow creatures, and we know that cruelty to animals may be a severe indicator of an inner sadism. May be. But the fact that many of my liberal friends choose THIS crime to sound like the most unforgiving of the right-wing justice of vengeance, not the many other cases, like Donte Stallworth, who killed a man while driving drunk and got off with a money settlement and a suspended sentence, really makes me wonder about some people's priorities. It dawns on me that the impression that many right-wingers have that liberals are elitists comes from something real.