No one should ever marry before age thirty. Divorce is the root of all evil. I am saying this dispassionately as I am lucky enough to not have been a product of divorce or divorced myself. Young people are so young. They should not be allowed to make significant decisions; on any level. Luck plays a huge part but given an even playing field encourage your kids to wait until they are thirty to marry and have kids. The odds improve dramatically. And then you do not have to deal with the likes of this guy's pain(Marc Lynott)

Most people really do not care who the Veep nominee is....unless that person is controversial; think Hillary Clinton. She would ignite the repubs to vote for anyone but her(even as vp). Cheney was an anomaly in terms of power. Most of us Salon readers would be hard pressed to name the last five veep nominees of both or either parties. We need someone innocuous who will not incite controversy and maybe deliver a certain state or constituency.

There can be no explanation other than he is also owned by corporate America. And I was going to give him yet another hard earned 100 dollars this month. F***** him along with Pelosi. What on earth has changed since the dems took the majority? I really feel for my kids. They are screwed. Hey Verizon , as long as you are listening, "screw you".

If FISA, as is ,passes, the criminals in the whitehouse will be shielded from ever being exposed about who they spied on and why. But, there was one telecom that refused to engage in the eavesdropping. I forget which one. If we want to do anything to have any impact, all of us who have cell phones and cell phone contracts should switch to the one company that followed the law. It would cost very little and would, or could bring down Verizon , ATT etc. Who was that company , Glenn? Obama is showing himself to be another Pelosi.

Has anyone noticed that since Obama began hiring all of Clinton's campaign strategists (particularly her fired chief of staff) that every decision he has made has resulted in outrage from the people who brought him to the nomination? He is now courting AIPAC, Evangelicals, telecoms and war mongers. I heard he was a bit like Kerry. Kerry looks like a champion next to Obama this past three weeks. Why are democrats so stupid and self destructive? Why on earth hire the staff that lost the nomination of Clinton which had every going for it? This FISA deal will bring him down. And now I am embarrassed by my "Mama for Obama bumper sticker.

Everyone with a cell phone should switch to Qwest, the only telecom not complicit in the eavesdropping. MoveOn should do a campaign re: this.

Everyone with a cell phone should switch to Qwest, the only telecom not complicit in the eavesdropping. MoveOn should do a campaign re: this.

After our ( probably indictable) governor, Frank Murkowski, appointed his daughter ,Lisa Murkowski ("she was the most qualified person in alaska "he could find) to his senate seat after he won the election for governor, alaskans passed an initiative which prohibited the governor from appointing a successor . The successor must be elected within a short period of time. Governor Palin is very popular as she won election over Murkowski on an anti corruption platform. It's looking good for the democratic candidate, Mark Begich, a popular mayor of Anchorage. Keep watching...Don Young, our sole congressman who has spent over a million dollars in legal bills this year , is next.

You are spot on until you miss the point. it is believed in Alaska that Palin was never pregnant. She" revealed" it in her seventh month when her ballerina body had not changed one iota. In her "eight month" her trip from Texas to her private clinic seven thousand miles away in Wasilla AFTER her water broke was a thirteen hour journey. I know of no mother who would not immediately go to the hospital after her water broke. The baby could have been minutes away from birth. She arrived in Anchorage and rather than go to a hospital a few minutes away she chose to drive to her Wasilla clinic, an hour and one half from the Anchorage airport. This is all her self report.No speculation or press report. Said she wanted her baby to be born in Wasilla.

Many Alaskans believe that the baby is the first child of her seventeen year old daughter she so prominently displayed at the convention. Number two is on the way. I do have a great deal of sympathy for her kids and husband.

As an Alaskan and a political junkie, to boot, this whole scenario is quite intriguing. Palin did take on the republican establishment in this state along with the oil companies. A formidable task for which she deserves credit. The "Troopergate" issue is small potatoes. On the other hand, it appears that she has now sold her "soul" to the rightwingnuts and Karl Rove. The speech she gave the other night was pure lies ala Karl Rove. What she did with her poor kids in terms of parading them to the media and then slamming the media for taking notice was quite telling in her buying into the Rovian methods of assault on the truth. By the way there are two "Bridges To NoWhere"; one in Ketchikan (to Gravina Island) and the other from Anchorage to Knik where Stevens, Don Young and Murkowski own property. As governor, Palin has accepted all of the money for both earmarks upwards of a billion dollars. Why does the mainstream media never mention the larger earmark which she fully supports and forges ahead with? Sheila Burke, Eagle River, Alaska