"Steal This Book" was nobody's bible. This is where conservatives get it so wrong. In my hippie/leftist circles in Berkeley, we could not stand the members of the Chicago 7, for all sorts of reasons. Abbie Hoffman was good theater for the press I suppose, which is why he, and the other losers like Jerry Rubin, Leary, and so on got a lot of press ... but they were not our leaders by any stretch of the imagination.

If we had any leaders at all, it was Lennon, Dylan (and ask him what he thought about that!), Warhol, Kesey, Brautigan, and a number of other artists, writers, musicians ... but certainly none of those self-proclaimed political fuckheads ...

There is one other difference as well between the Tea-Baggers (we should mass mail them all the definition of Tea Bagging someday, as described in, say, the "Queen's Vernacular") and the so-called radical left of the sixties ... is that our radicals didn't have corporate sponsorship or their own 24-hr. a day television channel like Fox News.

Intellectual conservatives? What is the point?

I see someone has already jumped in to call him a hypocrite, because he has made some money through his very hard work over the years. Isn't success, material and all, the just reward of labor? He had no mega-corporations behind him, like Beck, Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al.

Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, douchebags.

I'm not a big Moore fan, but i am going to see this movie (my first MM film). Don't know what Stephanie's problem is with MM, but it seems like she ignored a lot of the content of the movie.

The trailer I saw, where the guy from Goldman or AIG (I forget) whispers in President Reagan's ear to "speed things up" blew my mind, worth the price of admission alone. The scene sort of sums up everything that's gone wrong in the past 46 years.

Another example, this review, of entrenched egomania in the world of criticism. Yes, I hate most critics these days. I cannot find one whose love for his or her sphere, so to speak, shines through in the writing.

I see someone else wrote:

Joan is not headed for the boardroom of Sterling and Cooper. She'll never get the corner office. She's a woman and that's closed to her -- so the best thing for her to do is look pretty.

If we men COULD use our looks to get ahead, we would! Every weapon at our disposal.

A bunch of ugly women wanted to to level the playing field by convincing their fairer sisters that they were being objectified by the patriarchy, etc. ... hence feminism. Oh I know lots of things have been improved for women, but so much feminist thought denigrates the amazing essence of the female and tells women to strive to be like men. What for? You think it is a picnic? You want to trade your power and connection to the cycles of the earth and to the energies of life itself for a job title and corner office? Go for it.

Thank God biology trumps dogma every time. The sad part is that many women don't realize this until they are fifty ... and all the power and beauty of their youth was squandered ...

Have you seen pictures of the Tea Parties?

Those folks are way too fat old unattractive to get hired by Rick Scott.

Ah, the miracle of corn syrup and its effect on the American diet.

Who cares what's on some critic's ten-best list anyway? Most critics have their heads up their asses. I certainly don't choose my reading material by what they think.

No kidding. As someone who has been reviewed by horrendously stupid wannabe critics AND ignored in top ten lists (I am a white middle-age male, therefore an oppressor and should get automatic inclusion according to the victim class, but it doesn't work that way, girls), I can say with great authority that you just have to do what you do, create your works, hope you find your audience, or your audience finds you.

Most top ten lists are full of forgettable crap, the flavor of the moment. It stings to be left off, esp. when you hear (I am a composer, singer) what they include - AWFUL stuff.

Most critics these days write for each other, not out of love for the works they cover. It's a little club. In terms of social worth, critics are in the same realm as admen and DJs - the bottom of the cultural pile.

Chris Rock pretty much summed it up when he called Manson him "Count Chocula's favorite band."

O but it's misogynist!!! So of course Broadsheet must report.

I love the way "feminists," particularly those at Broadsheet, want to judge everybody, including fellow "feminists" when the others' brands of "feminism" doesn't match their own. And when the judging is done, the blaming begins. As the the police chief said in the Marx Bros' Night At The Opera "round up the usual suspects!" Well, of course it's the patriarchy's fault!

I put "feminism" in quotes, because sisterhood does not exist, no matter what they tell you in college.

Fact: even black people have a hierarchy of lighter skinned black vs. darker skinned, too ... and it's not whitey's fault, nor that of straight men! It is just the way it is.

Leave Sammy be. If he wants to make himself look ridiculous, it is HIS own doing, not society's.

I will leave you with this idea: live and let live.