But it did contain this delicious morsel: "{Scooter Libby has] spent every cent he's had on legal fees and not slept for eight months..."

Gee, what happened to all his multi-millionaire friends raising all those multi-millions for his defense fund? Did they spend it all on cocktail weenies? And does Cohen know the man hasn't slept for eight months because he shares his bed? I submitted that thanks to the Bush Administratoion for whom Scooter lied and obstructed justice, many of us haven't slept in over six years and more than 3000 American troops are sleeping permanently, but somehow this was passed over by the chat moderators.

Overall, Cohen's obdurate self-justification reminded me of my father's favorite domestic argument-stopper. To paraphrase: when he's right, he's right, and when he's wrong, he's right.

Be a real libertarian, please, and get off the big-government-founded internet, stop using the words you learned in big-government-subsidized schools, and shove Ron Paul up your big-government-protected ass.

You'll feel so much better for it!

William Timberman and L.W.M., you've made my day. Thanks. I'm so touched, honored and grateful for your kind words I may not be able to say anything mean or insulting for 10 or 12 minutes.

"Suppurating" is indeed a wonderful word, but I'm surprised that anyone who follows contemporary politics and media hasn't acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the lexicon of pus.

Basically it's 4th grade recess.

Spoken like a suppurating abscess.

Print edition, that is. If you read him online, it's best to switch the monitor off.

Tonight, as every night, Richard will anticipate with pleasure the moment Mrs. Cohen turns the lights off. Then, as usual, she will slip a nanny goat into the bed while she goes out to enjoy sexual relations with an actual liberal. Not only is her husband on to the ruse, he actually prefers it that way.

If concentration camp capos like Cohen and Klein can call themselves liberals, I'd like to start calling myself an Oldsmobile. Or call my taxes paid in perpetuity. It's the new reality.

Not the Tim W. Brown!?!?! Really?!?! The famous, er, what? Author? Of ... um ... what, exactly?

This is so exciting! Who knew such big celebrities were reading, and even commenting, on Glenn's modest, obscure little bog -- let alone Tim W. BROWN!!!!! I've been such a big fan of yours since ...

Say, who the fuck are you, anyway? We've certainly gotten a putrid taste of who you think you are.

I know I've said this here before, but I think it bears repeating:

I am a gay man. Rush Limbauigh, Johah Goldberg, Joe Lieberman, et al are faggots.

Chris Mathews, on the other hand, is in a class by himself. Watching him squirm in his seat with homoerotic delight, I can only speculate on the immensity of the butt-plug he's pleasuring himself with while he's on the air.

...you're wrong this time, especially in your comparisons of theatre and television. Yes, for every DOUBT there are five DEUCEs and for every GREY GARDENS there are ten TARZANs. But for every SOPRANOS there are a hundred TWO AND A HALF MENs. Jeff Whitty has already nailed your complaints about the "development" process, where TV almost makes Broadway look like a temple of artistic purity. In fact, the commercial theatre has been attempting to ape the television model for years with great enthusiasm and generally dire results.

And the date for the Tonys was set long before the SOPRANOS finale was scheduled -- it's a complicated live broadcast, not a pre-recorded episode, remember?

Still wishing you all the best,

Neal Leibowitz

we have created, and continue to create deadly enemies.

-- bilzim

I think Blackwater calls it "expanding the franchise."

If had any knowledge of this country's history ...

-- tiberius

If had two more IQ points you be houseplant.

Well let's see, Glenn et al. has been wrong about Plame, Katrina, Swift Banking Scandal, Telephone databases rather than eavesdropping, The actual effect of signing statements and Club Gitmo.

-- shooter242

Nobody pulls the wool over your eyes, eh? We can try our diabolical best to persuade you that elephants lay eggs and Jennifer Aniston invented the steam engine, but you have the guts to stick to your guns because you know for a righteous fact that steam engines lay eggs and elephants invented Jennifer Aniston.

Don't miss the op-ed in today's New York Times by former Navy translator Stephen Benjamin, "Don't Ask, Don't Translate" -- a stark look at our armed forces' skewed priorities and double standards, not to mention the utter lack of seriousness with which our government conducts (and exploits) the so-called "War on Terror."

Open primaries do exist, you know.

I know, and I'm sure millions of otherwise-affiliated folks vote in Republican presidential primaries out of sheer whimsy.

And I don't think Ron Paul is the embodiment of all things evil; yes, I even agree with him on certain issues. I just don't see how any responsible American, at this particular moment in our nation's hostory, can waste a moment weighing the merits of anyone in the Republican field when there's so much work to be done simply struggling to identify the least odious of the Democrats.

Andrew's change has nothing to do with conscience and everything to do with opportunism.

--Anonymous

And maybe steroids, too.

I wish I still had that NY Times Magazine article in which he extols the transformative, masculinizing powers of his prescriptions. Why, it made him grateful for the gift of AIDS!