I predict that those words will go down in history as one of the biggest lies of all time.

That sentence is mind-boggling. And heart-breaking. The pain, the fear, the anxiety that these people must be experiencing makes my mind reel and my stomach churn. When will Obama and Congress do something substantive to help those people? Seriously. Their inaction amounts to criminal neglect. When will the whole population finally say "enough is enough" and start the revolution that needs to occur? This is not the way we were meant to live.

In my opinion, Scalia is a sociopath who uses his legal opinions to try to inflict his personality disorder(s) on others.

let this be true!

The author writes: "in no American city do we put 'Look Left' markings on streets for our British or Japanese friends." Au contraire. In San Francisco, quite a few of our crosswalks have "Look Both Ways" markings. Makes sense though, doesn't it?: we San Franciscans are always trying to help our brothers and sisters on the left.

I'd love to deny health care to Palin, her defective prop child, and the rest of her sub-normal brood.

Absolutely shocking that Obama's approval rating has plummetted: he's accomplished so much during his time in office thus far--all those new policies and pieces of legislation; he's done such a great job of fulfilling all of his campaign promises; he's helped so many, many people who were suffering from the economic collapse; and he's taken such great trips abroad. I just don't get it.

I think the reason the majority of Americans is overweight is because our culture teaches us to hate ourselves, to hate others, and to hate nature. We're divorced from a natural, holistic, communitarian approach to life, and that manifests itself in bodies that are unfit and unhealthy. Even some of us who are fit and healthy often obtain those qualities by abusing our bodies. Until America changes some of its fundamental values, we're going to continue to be a country with unhealthy bodies and unhealthy minds.

As someone who had the dubious honor of being a member of Senator Hatch's Youth Advisory Committee during my painful teens years growing up in Utah, I can honestly state that Hatch is a complete idiot. Seriously. Hatch wouldn't know a "judicial philosophy" if it crawled up his uptight overly-clenched racist butt.

Wouldn't it be nice if Obama took some of the passion (and compassion) he showed over Professer Gates's arrest and applied it to: joblessness; home foreclosures; personal bankruptcies; deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; lack of adequate health insurance; discrimination against gay and lesbian people; lack of justice for torturers; global climate change; etc., etc.? The ineffective twit gets himself all worked up over an inconsequential arrest but fails to take any meaningful or consequential action on important issues that affect millions of people. What an utter disappointment he is.

He's not even transparent regarding his lack of transparency.

Does having "Jackson" as your last name somehow require you to be a nutcase?

Massachusetts clearly has leaders who have backbone and integrity. I wish the same were true of the "leader" we have sitting in the White House.

She says she understands "the Constitution and laws," and then she states that "people are innocent until proven otherwise: that is what the Constitution stands for." But there's absolutely nothing in the U.S. Constitution that addresses the presumption of innocence. (The principle comes from English jurisprudence, but it's not codified in the U.S. Constitution and really has nothing to do with the Constitution.) She also mis-states the principle itself: it's not that one is innocent until proven guilty; it's that one is PRESUMED innocent until proven guilty.

The LGBT community in the US has been screwed over by the law for years. And it looks like we'll continue to be screwed for years into the future. What we, as a community, need to learn is that we can and should treat each other better than the law treats us. We can and should treat each other with respect and integrity. Just because we don't currently have a universal right to marry doesn't mean that we should lower our morals and our principles to the level of our oppressors.

I hope the joyous moments in your life outnumbered the painful ones.

You're making California look better.

about last night's show was the behavior/demeanor of the two eldest girls (the twins). They seemed completely messed up to me. Absolutely heart-breaking.

where's the sexual orientation diversity in the Obama administration?

This opinion piece by Mr. Geidner contains exactly the kind of appeasement language that does a great disservice to the LGBT community and, therefore, that Obama and his bigoted ilk love to read. The time for being satisfied with cautious and incremental steps to full equality is over. The time to raise hell and to refuse to settle for less than complete justice is now. Sit back and watch, Mr. Geidner, as those of us with a true desire for immediate and full civil liberties make them a reality by refusing to accept the insulting and half-hearted actions (and inactions) of this seriously flawed president.

He'll never do the right thing with respect to gay and lesbian Americans because he's a big-time, hate-filled, hypocritical homophobe. It disgusts me that he sits in the White House in large part because of the civil rights movement of the 60s, yet he is doing absolutely nothing to help bring true equality and full civil rights to gay and lesbian Americans. He could be the first "gay" president (a la Bill Clinton's being the first "black" president), but he's too much of a homophobe to do so. What a loser.