Honestly we are lucky when she can coherently put enough words together to make a complete statement in a simple sentance.

And you then want those few and far betweens, to agree with Mr Fossil on something ?

I'd never expect what she says to be relevant to his proposed agendas. Otherwise she would not be wearing her mavericky suit in that arrogant style she finds so comfortable.

It's way past time to drop this fawning attention.

The SP phenomena needs to be dropped back into the Alaska bucket to let it stew in it's own fundamental juices.

Given the actual issues of the day, we as a country don't need to be looking to this woman for any inspirational image. Especially so, when the one presented is only some mirage of desire.

I am so glad that a young black woman I photographed in 1992 reading with her teacher in Santa Fe, did not need any form of this SP chimera to inspire her to 'become president':

http://www.well.com/~rhenley/pr.htm

It was rather I think, the now seemingly dead ideals of the American Constitution and opportunity that provides to us all.

but in particular the mention of FUEL (formerly FIELDS OF FUEL) makes me sick.

-- bryan stamp

While it might not be everyones cup of spinach, and it certainly wasn't mine before I saw it when it was shopped about for inclusion on this list, Fuel inspired me like few films do.

I've been hoping that the story is reasonably factually correct, and if it is - I think everyone should see it. Which up until now has been somewhat hard to do: http://thefuelfilm.com/

This subject concerns us all, and defines the world we choose to live in. So it's about time we become more educated about options to oil. And contemporary thinking towards other solutions.

That should have even more of us questioning how we can redefine the terms of the energy equation, in order to remove it from the death zone it inhabits today.

It's an old story you now. It's as old as the hills almost, at least since humans began to write.

I bought my last used laptop in 2000 from a broken, almost incoherent vet hawking them while living on borrowed time in the Presidio.

In 1992 on assignment for a newspaper, I photographed the homeless in Santa Fe, the majority of the men in that condition were Vietnam veterans. They just could not function, 'normally'. So the ones who survived, and were still 'living' became the faces of the homeless. It's still the same today.

So these comments in this article:

"Why do the numbers keep going up?" Army Secretary Pete Geren said at a Jan. 29 Pentagon news conference. "We can’t tell you." On Feb. 5, the Army announced it suspects 24 soldiers killed themselves last month, more than died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Are just disingenuous at best.

It's a known fact that war breaks the lessor of men. And heaps continuing abuse on those who have managed to physically survive, but were incapable of enduring the destruction of their souls.

The question these articles should answer, because this story is so cheaply found, is how we stop the madness that's been diligently hawked as some peerless form of salvation foisted on our young. Or whether that can (n)ever be the state of human affairs while the military leads them on.

And drops them off.

If any one is really interested, and in many ways no one should be - all your daily Palin dosage is nicely available at via the mudflats:

http://www.themudflats.net/

Where you might then find out, that Sarah has no evidenced concern for any of those poverty stricken outback types who populate the environs beyond her homey nest there in Wasilla, AK.

And of course with some other Alaskans taking offense when Sarah's living the jet set high life, while a significant number of her fellow citizens choose between heat or food every day.

It's no mystery to all us mudflatters that ol' SP has to mend her front gate before those ungrateful charges lurch at it again. And spoil her party.

I can't understand having trouble using your iPhone on t-Mobile's system.

It works fine for me. But then I might located in the right neighborhood.

how dog-friendly a society we'll be living in

Ahh, just think if you ever tire of having a dog tagging about in Asia and getting underfoot, you may be cheered to know that dogs there are a real commodity. So in this new country, you may find she provides a bit different form of support than here.

But don't take my word for it:

Animals Asia helps give dogs new life and hope

47 dogs saved from meat trade safe at Chengdu rescue centre

http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=7OJSH2M2G6W

Taking the cat out for a wok

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/china/2008/12/taking-the-cat-out-for-a-wok.html

Instead of taking a sensitive Lucy into similar scenes, you might wish to help others who already there now.

an old Alaska tradition.

While the rural residents of Alaska starve and freeze this year, they will be glad to know that the state budget can be controlled by having one's way with words. Mere deeds are for kids.

Lurking in the background of these glamorous and mighty lines in today's sand is the Palin Alaska budget buster, the no pipeline giveaway.

Using the small sum of a half billion to grease the conveyance of more words onto yet another platform of the moment, she may yet turn the burgeoning dissatisfaction with her style into a popular movement:

Pipe Dreams by Joe McGinniss April 2009 Issue

Forget “Drill, baby, drill.” Sarah Palin says she’s building a $40 billion gas pipeline, which even President Obama wants. The only problem: It isn’t there. And it’s her fault.

http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/03/17/Governor-Palins-Big-Energy-Battles?page=1#page=1

To which we have to say Go Baby, Go.