Old habits die hard. I keep checking in on my old friend, Salon. But Salon has changed. Salon has been PC'd and wussified beyond recognition. Thanks for nothing, Joan.

Feature article: what do Americans have against sodomy? Real simple: it is fucking gross. If that's what you want to do, fine. But PLEASE keep it to yourselves. Now, I will be called a homophobe for that. But when gay sex columnist Dan Savage writes "I would rather die, literally, than eat pussy," does anyone call him a gynophobe? I mean, other than, me? I doubt it.

But back to "Hard Drive."

And gee, we want sex. And will lie to get it. Well, some of us anyway. Why do men lie? Because it works. Why do women fall for it over and over? A serious asshole like Mystery takes money off chumps who want to learn how to have a little game. Why would that be? Because you can ask any man on earth and he will say "Women always go for the assholes." Because that is the truth. An unfortunate truth, but truth is truth. And it is not all men's fault, girls.

I highly recommend http://www.intellectualwhores.com/ for a breakdown and analysis of this phenomenon.

As far as lying goes, what is make-up, push-up bras, high-heels, and so on? Doesn't everyone lie a little to find a mate as high on the evolutionary scale as possible?

Testosterone poisoning? Thanks, Alan. Why no mention of estrogen poisoning? Just as real a phenomenon. And I think Salon is in the terminal throws of it.

please ... blow it out your ass ...

did my typo negate anything i wrote?

you simply restated the premise of my own letter, not as cleverly, not as wittily, and certainly not as thoroughly ... AND you threw in the word "pussies" ... wow ...

bye bye ... i leave salon to you

BWAAAAHHAAAAAHAAAAAHHAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Every republican in this country is drinking kaopectate by the quart right now, having cleaned Walgreen's out of extra-absorbent Depenz ...

I truly cannot wait for a debate between Obama and McCain ...

Beautiful speech. Cautiously hopeful for the first time in about forty years.

Why do I keep coming here? Salon was so great for so long ...

I CANNOT believe you are not focussing on Obama's great speech. But rather McCain's hail mary pass.

IDIOTS.

You are absolute proof of the failure of hardcore feminist ideology.

Thanks for less than nothing.

she's referring to the palin-mccain ticket for christ's sake.

i've met sarah palins before ... i think we all have.

god help us if they make it to the white house.

You didn't really think Bush and Cheney would just pack up and head to Dubai or Paraguay did you?

this ignores the biological nature of sexual attraction (lesbian bed-death anyone?) while simultaneously objectifying women and reducing the whole focus of feminist argument to what women do with their vaginas.

This is why smart men no longer listen to women about what they want. So-called feminist women have no idea. It's all failed ideology and magical thinking.

Don't worry girls. We have what you need, whether you know it or not. And it's not nice guys who can make you laugh.

Obama speaks and 100,000 people show up

McCain speaks and 1,000 people show up (the repubes claim 1,500)

Palin speaks and 5,000 lunatics show up

And you are saying Obama needs to stay above 50%?

Do you just mean in the rigged polls? Or what? I think Obama is up by at least 25% and there are very very few undecideds left out there.

They aren't going to be able to Diebold the election this time. It's very hard to get guys to help hack the machines when they aren't sure they are going to win, thus face prosecution.

It's over for the Repubes, for McCain, for Reaganomics, for "free-market" capitalism, for the wingnut influence outside of the wingnut sphere. Looking forward to Sarah Palin's antics after the election.

November 5 ... the bloodbath begins in the Republican party.

like Sarah Palin is beyond me.

Is it because she is a woman?

I was just watching "V For Vendetta" and it struck me that Sarah Palin is the real-life counterpart to Adam Sutler, the "conservative Christian" dictator, played by John Hurt in the movie.

Feel sorry for Sarah Palin? Please get some help, Joan.

For Christ's sake ... they'd be saying the same thing if she were a man.

This is how it goes, how it's always gone ... do you think the rules will change because some of the players are wearing skirts?

And she IS a whack job. No question about that.

Well, more than usual. Wow. I can't believe the stuff you guys are saying about Obama now. Your time is up. Sorry. You had your run, beginning in late 1963, and you have brought this country to ruin, dishonor, bankruptcy. The people are taking back the country from the slimeballs, the killers, the bagmen, the finks, and the money-worshipers, and their pervert front men known as the modern Republican Party.

Do you guys get paid overtime? I mean, I know it's hard to make ends meet on security guard pay.

I knew radicals like him back in the sixties in Berkeley ... they were jerks then. Jerks now. He's complaining because "they made [him] into a cartoon character?" He was a cartoon character. All those assholes. The riots in Berkeley were no fun. The bombs never changed anything, except to give Nixon an easy in to the White House. Fuck him. His "regrets" about his youth reek of dissemblance.

I have always detested the term "progressive." The progressives have nearly ruined my hometown of Berkeley with their dogma and PC bullshit.

i never gave up being a liberal! Thanks!