Today, though, I bought online. And, Glenn's post was a little bit like an abbreviated author's reading/talk before a signing... ;~)

-- Karen M

Yes but, Karen, I think you might be missing part of smartaleck's point. That being that Amazon.com is pretty much the enemy, in that they are known to have donated much money to the neocon machine. I don't know this to be an absolute fact but I have very little doubt that it is true.

If others have information to the contrary or to the affirmative may they speak now.

All things considered, though, I purchased the book this morning through Amazon, as per Glenn's request. Wide spread readership is what we are aiming for and in need of. Extremely important.

It's small-minded to bring it up, but he did come across as a self-styled writing expert.

Oh goodness no it is not small minded to bring it up. Just go to Karen M's brand spanking new cite. We have all the bases covered here at 'Unclaimed Territory'.

Firefox Rules. Million folds better than Explorer.

I think it is incumbent on the person making such a claim to provide proof. I'm not up to proving a negative today.

-- SusanMc

You have misunderstood me. I wasn't challenging you to provide "proof" or even evidence. I was speaking to the congregation. Including any and all lurkers.

Kitt: Are you mocking me?! (note... the typed version of an interrobang)

Most certainly not. I sincerely hope that you didn't really think that I was. I was promoting your efforts and hoping that the poster in question would take advantage of your efforts. I was having fun with you...but 'mocking'? Most certainly not.

Kitt....

I think that "So you say," from Bucky was addressed to me.

I know that, Karen. My point was that he has been denying that he had accused all of us of waiting for Glenn to tell us who to vote for. His remark to you, "So you say" was repeat proof that he was indeed making that accusation. So, I was pointing out that pathological liars, such as Bucky, get tripped up by their ongoing, never ending string of lies.

If I thought my dollars would make a difference in the employees' lives, I might shop there, but I don't think it would.

A walmart CEO makes more money in about five minutes than a Walmart floor employee will make in a lifetime of 38 hour weeks working at Walmart.

Walmart is the poster rat for what is wrong with America.

Come on now, Arne. Picking off numb-nuts like Shooter and Tim is like shootin' fish in a barrel. Not polite to pick off the goggle eye, bulbous lipped bottom feeders.

For entertainment value, though, it's hard to resist. If I'm charged, I'm guilty as charged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsRNDFH-lg

I hope your computer was able to click on that link and play it for you. It would be a shame if you didn't get to hear it.

Just in case, I'll at least describe what you missed. A guy named Truman Price is playing a fiddle. He isn't famous. I found him on youtube because I like that kind of old-time music and I play harmonica and clawhammer banjo myself.

He's quite good. He's playing St. Anne's Reel. He plays his fiddle at about chest level. Which is unusual. Most fiddlers play it up against the chin. He's wearing blue jeans and a light colored, long sleeved shirt, a floppy hat, a full beard, which happens to be white.

About a third of the way through the tune he begins to do a jig. He's standing in a meadow that is filled with white and purple wild flowers.

He made me think of you. Which is why, in my subject title, I jokingly called him your neighbor.

I have come to hate the war and I cannot approve of lying under oath -- not by Scooter, not by Bill Clinton, not by anybody. But the underlying crime is absent, the sentence is excessive and the investigation should not have been conducted in the first place. This is a mess. Should Libby be pardoned? Maybe. Should his sentence be commuted? Definitely-Cohen

What does that mean? He "has come" to hate the war. But, oh well, I guess.

He "cannot approve of lying under oath". But he apparently thinks nothing is to be done about it.

He somehow knows that the "underlying crime is absent". How he knows that, I don't know.

So, in conclusion he says "this is a mess". Well, his column sure is a mess. Talking in circles through and through.

Trainwrecks don't have structure.

That's probably not true. I'll bet that it you were to watch a film of a train wreck (slowed way down so you could closely observe the unfolding in detail upon detail) you would see that there is a pattern that takes place. Action/reaction/action/reaction.

All you need to know about Cohen is....

...that he thinks sex is better with the lights off.

Yes, that got my attention also. I felt myself straining (in imagination mode) to see the best parts of the experience. I didn't like that. Much was missing.

but now I have to figure out what "expensive rhetoric" might mean.

-- El Cid,

It might mean lying with rhetoric to the FBI and to a Grand Jury. That cost a lot in the end...hopefully.