Thank heavens! I was worried about you going M.I.A. on this topic; I was convinced you'd finally granted yourself the eternal peace you seem to long for. This world and its people just aren't good enough for the likes of you ... except maybe for one tiny sliver of the Middle East. Why aren't you there now?

Even if everyone else has forgotten, I certainly remember you and the delightful letters you used to write to the late, lamented Miss Emily Litella. How nice it is to encounter you again, and what a drag it is getting old!

Krauthammer used to be "serious," but I'm pretty sure his condition has been upgraded to "critical."

Thank God you're here. We're tired of our old neo-con trolls; what a novelty to greet a young, callow one!

I found his comments here pretty obnoxious, so I skimmed the blog linked to his name; he's a privileged former lefty obsessed with liberal anti-semitism and the Muslim menace (where have we heard that before?) To be fair, not a cookie-cutter neocon -- perhaps a Peretz for a new generation?

Oh, and I was in a pretty bad mood, too.

Best wishes.

Pastor Hagee is a by-the-book Christian

... and the title of that book is "Elmer Gantry."

Senator Lieberman is a righteous man

... as Lindsay Lohan is a role model for American girlhood.

So are President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Sorry, I just can't top this joke. You win this round.

God speaks loudly and clearly

... since I got these swell new Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones (and ditched the anti-psychotic meds.)

Too bad if His Message offends your PC sensibilities.

What does it say about Him if he'll settle for the likes of You to be His Messenger?

You mock God at your own peril.

Yet you cheapen and demean Him with impunity. No fair.

The cock has crowed twice, first on September 11, 2001 and then on August 29, 2005. Beware the third cock crow, coming very soon.

Come on, old poof, we all know you can handle three cocks at a time! I've seen the video!

So... are you people "serious" or not?

-- shooter242

Okay, in all seriousness ... you're getting paid to troll, and demonstrating once again the Bushies' weakness for hiring the slavishly loyal over the passably competent.

Jews out Peace In

that is all

--Anonymous

Nice sheet, Bubba. Fits you like a burning cross. Why don't you take off the hood like a big, brave boy?

I've just returned from my morning round of golf.

Oh, goody for you. Did you manage to get the ball through the little windmill this time?

If anyone is worried, I can see across the Hudson from my office window and it appears New Jersey has survived.

which leads me to believe that most of the objections to Iraq are specious.

You are truly beyond belief. Every reason for invading and occupying Iraq has turned out to be specious, you waste of living cells.

I should think it would be the proverbial "slam dunk" and the next great chapter of the American experience.

It's all a trivial joke to you: the thousands dead, the blighted lives, the wasted treasure, the loss of our trust in our government, the shame of the U.S. in the eyes of the world...

You're no American, Shooter, so why don't you go back where you came from? Or does even Hell have standards?

until I see something concrete

Consult any mirror; you'll find what you're looking for atop your neck.

I'm going to reserve judgement.

Why start now?

Excellent, as usual, but I can't agree that (most of) these Beltway jackasses are expressing what they "personally" believe.

They are expressing what they are paid to believe.

1) We have always been at war with Eurasia.

2) I have worked for several large-ish companies that were swallowed up by giant conglomerates. Perhaps we missed the announcement that Brookings is now just a wholly-owned subsidiary of AEI.

Are they all blind? All lying?

-- Seaberry

Not all. Some may genuinely believe they will eventually find the pony. There must be a pony.

Keep that in mind when reading his comments; he's not merely stupid, he's hallucinating.

Get it now, you excrement? Armstrong "Pay to Say" Williams is NOT an Air America show. Once again, you're stupid AND delusional; I'm right, you're wrong.

You can start apologizing to all of us for all your bullshit right now, Shitter, but it will take the rest of your natural life and then some.

Thanks for getting there first, Anonymous. It's amazing anyone as "challenged" as Shitter can find his way out of bed each morning, let alone operate such an advanced high-tech device as an AM radio.

I listen to his show in the mornings ... on the way to the golf course.

-- shooter242

And everyone would be so disappointed if he didn't show up on time. Shooter is one of the easiest holes on the course.

Good ol' Shitter. Even when he's demonstrably wrong, he's right -- and demanding apologies from anyone with the temerity to point it out.

Another O'Hanlon, or Kristol, or Hiatt, or Cohen, or... (I could keep this up all day!)

Oink! Oink! Oink! [THWAK!]

FARMER BROWN: Pork chops for dinner, maw!