"Conservatives tend to change their attitudes quickly when their own lives and families might be endangered." From abortion to drug laws to clean government, this has always been the right wing attitude: OK for "those people" but not for me and mine. Very well said, Joe.

Jean Schmidt calls a 37 year Marine Corps veteran, decorated for valor in combat, a "coward" yet idolizes a cokehead doofus who used his father's connections to avoid the draft, and then went AWOL, failing to complete his Guard requirements. Don't you just love those Republican "values"?

What's Tony's name? Soprano.

What does a soprano do? He sings.

What is a soprano? The highest male voice.

Tony will sing, and be the highest ranking made guy to talk. If you mention a rope in the opening chapter, someone is going to get hung before the story is over.

Dear Rush,

I'm sorry. There, I said it, and I mean it. I'm sorry for all the times I called you a prick. This latest incident proves that I'm wrong, and I'll be man enough to say it: I apologize. You obviously are not a prick: you'd need to take drugs to be one and, of course, you'd never... oh. Right. Never mind.

Darrin Siegfried

The right wing has been out to get rid of every trace of the New Deal, including Social Security, since Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress pulled the nation out of the crippling depression brought about directly by Republican endorsed and sponsored business practices. They refuse to look at the facts that these programs, along with other such "parasitic" (their words) programs as the FHA, the GI Bill, student aid and guarantees for student loans, have built up a strong middle class. This has been the engine of growth for America. If the ineffective "leader"in the Oval Office wants to try again to bring down Social Security and put OUR money into the hands of his Wall Street friends, just as a way of proving that he can do something (anything) that his father couldn't, all I can say is: "Mister Bush... BRING IT ON!" He will fail in yet another endeavor, and will leave office with his enormous Oedipus Complex still unresolved.

Today, boys & girls, we'll teach you how to steal a bicycle (after WE stole the idea from another channel). In November we'll show you how to steal elections!

Morris quotes Reagan as saying, "Maybe the Lord brought down this plague [because] illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments."

Typical "conservative" hypocricy: Nancy was pregnant when she & Ron were married. Sex out of wedlock is only sinful for "those people", not for people like us, right?

George H.W.Bush famously told us that he lacked "the vision thing". His son only has visions of himself as a swaggering military hero (something he had a chance to become in his youth, before he ran away AWOL).

Bill Clinton always had vision: he always dreamed that America could become an even better place, that her people could achieve even greater things. The story of his own life is a story of hope, of hard work, of a desire for tomorrow to be a better day. His is a story of America as we have, until recently, known it.

It saddens me to know that we have gone from a President like Bill Clinton, who tirelessly worked to make America stronger, to a man who sends our troops to die in order to foster the illusions that his party is strong on defense, that he is a fearless warrior, and to work out his own immense Oedipus Complex.

Serving the bourbon, gerously poured, on ice with a small bottle of mixer on the side is "club service". We served drinks that way when I was at Windows on the World, and the barmen at the King Cole Bar at New York's St. Regis make my Dewar's and soda the same way. I think that it's a fine level of service, along with not using "speed pour" caps on the bottles.

Anthony Bourdain gets it right again! After Foie Gras, veal will be an easy target to go after next... the farmed Salmon (It's not nice to keep those poor little fishies penned up now, is it?), Venison... who knows what will be next and where it will end. I do know that, seeing one of the top guys from PETA (I believe it was their Chief Legal Counsel) finally get flustered and admit that the result that his organization was really after is the outright banning of any and all animal products. That's right: no eggs, no milk or cheese, no meats, no fish or shellfish, no poultry.

If you don't want to eat foie gras, just don't order it!

Hernry Thoreau said that "you cannot take freedom from another man without taking freedom from yourself", and this IS about freedom, no matter what kind of obfuscation and red herring are brought into the argument.

With this as with any other freedom: you let someone take away just a little bit, just this once, and they'll take away more, and more.

This is one vet (US Army) who wasn't fooled by the false patriotism and viscious lies of the GOP. Every soldier is taught that you can't trust a deserter, and Goerge W. deserted his unit. Bill Clinton did more for the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and vets that the chickenhawks in the current administration. The fact that the Veteran's Administration Hospitals work angers them and disproves their "government can't do anything right" stance... so they've been cutting, cutting, cutting, all the while wrapping their treason in the flag and hiding it behind patriotic sounding slogans.

You can't trust a deserter!