Would someone, please, buy Joe a lifetime supply of beer and Doritios so that he can just hole up in his house and watch TV for the rest of his life?

yawn

I'm going to have a white supremacist pray at my inauguration. Maybe then Obama will understand how offensive his choosing Rick Warren is.

Hitler also tried, in various situations when the world was watching, to hide his genocidal hatred. Warren is a dangerous and vile hate monger. What a disgraceful situation Obama has created!

From the AP: "Many suffered from anti-gay violence in 2008"

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2008/12/23/D958P3700_anti_gay_violence/index.html

Wouldn't it be comforting if Obama had the courage and the intestinal fortitude to admit that he made a big mistake by inviting Warren and, therefore, undid the whole thing? But, alas, we appear to be poised to be subjected to another president who can't acknowledge his mistakes. It's going to be another long 4 years of stupid, destructive arrogance.

People who think they can contribute to a political cause that takes away fundamental civil rights yet escape vandalism to their property are delusional. Same thing goes for people who sport pro-Prop-8 bumper stickers on their cars. If you're going to support the revocation of fundamental rights, you're going to have live with the chance of suffering from the consequences of your hatred.

John Kyl is a cipher.

I've been a happy, satisfied customer of AT&T wireless (and its predecessors) for more than a decade. I can say without hesitation and without qualification that I absolutely L-O-V-E the service I get from AT&T. But a big contrast between Om Malik and me is that I don't "depend almost exclusively on my mobile phone for my communications." I would never dream of conducting business, or doing an interview, or discussing important or confidential matters on a mobile phone. For me, that's what land lines are for. And, in my opinion, cell phones were never meant to be (and never will become) a true replacement for land lines. So I'll keep my iPhone and my love affair with AT&T, but I'll also continue to rely on my steadfastly dependable land lines.

We should have split this state in two when we had the chance several years ago. Northern California wouldn't be having this problem now were it not for Southern California.

Circuit City had the greasiest, slimiest, most unprofessional sales clerks of all time. I never left that store without feeling like I needed a Silkwood scrub-down. I'm glad to see that karma finally caught up with Circuit City, its grimy workers, and its butt-ugly store design.

when has John McCain ever been anything other than a jerk. He always has been and always will be a mean, nasty, frustrated, psychologically damaged colossal jerk.

One of the headlines for this article mentions saving five minutes for "rich people." I'm not sure it's fair to characterize those of us who use Oakland airport as "rich people." I would argue that we're a fairly working class bunch, taking our $39.00 Southwest flights.

Would someone please write a memo that justifies the torture of John Yoo?

is that he's an odious little toad.

If Bush had a heart and a soul, he'd donate that $7M to a charity to try to help, in some small way, the millions of people whose lives he damaged or destroyed. But I know it'll never happen cuz the guy has no heart and no soul.

he's really more like a genital-less robot.

A truly moving piece about a heart-breaking and tragic event.

But, I cannot commend the way in which the author, Gary Kamiya, blithely dismisses the unacceptable past experience he had had with a San Francisco police officer whom he happened to see today at the memorial service. It's simply not acceptable to justify that officer's unprofessional behavior by saying "Every profession has people who should not be in it." There are some professions that are and should be held to the highest standards of professionalism and accountability. Law enforcement is, unquestionably, one of those professions. We, the public, must not tolerate the existence a police officer who is "a little guy with a major authoritarian complex." I hope, Mr. Kamiya, that you'll make a formal report to the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints regarding the atrocious treatment you experienced at the hands of that officer. It's bad apples like that guy who are likely to become, at some point, the next BART police officer who murders an unarmed Oscar Grant. We, the public, have a grave responsibility to report the bad behavior of cops instead of bowing down to their "authoritarian complexes" and rationalizing their unprofessionalism by saying that "Every profession has people who should not be in it."

Surly clerks. Grimy stores. Poor selection. Censored movies. Ridiculous fees. Bankruptcy couldn't happen to a more appropriate company.

I recently cancelled the two-week vacation I was going to take starting next week. Yeah, I've got savings that I was going to use (instead of my credit card). Yeah, I've still got my job (even after the company I work for laid off 10% of the employees). Yeah, my 401(k) has been relatively unscathed by the market collapse. But I canceled my vacation because I realized that I really wouldn't be able to enjoy myself in these dark times--not knowing whether, in a few months, I'd deeply regret not having the couple thousand dollars I was going to drop on this vacation; but also realizing that I couldn't enjoy the trip when there are so many, many people out there struggling financially on a daily basis. I'm by no means wealthy, but, for me, taking a vacation right now just seems like an insensitive thing to do from an inter-connectedness, karmic standpoint.

if Texas really does secede, it would be the nation with the most in-bred, under-educated, homophobic, racist, sexist, annoyingly-accented population in the world. Is there any way we could force them to secede . . . immediately?