Have you read Women's Work: The First 10,000 Years? It has some very interesting observations on the history of textiles and weaving and their places in society and the home economy.

Terrorism is terrorism, and terrorists are terrorists, right?

Will Bill O'Reilly get waterboarded?

Are they going to confiscate all the assets of Catholic charities?

What about the President of the Mormon Church? Does he get extraordinary rendition?

"Harsh interrogation" for Right to Life?

Gitmo for the "Crisis Pregnancy Centers"?

I'm really looking forward to the deafening silence from the Dick and George Fan Club on this one. Hypocrites and moral cowards every one of them.

So the Capitalists at GM, Chrysler and the entire financial sector put quick personal gain first and ignored long-term health of the firms. They looted their employers while screwing the workers and ran the companies into the ground.

The internal contradictions destroyed capitalism.

Now the Unions and the People own the means of production.

Q. E. Flippin' D.

These people aren't just against "birth control they consider abortifacient". They are against birth control, period. They started with abortion. Then they went after IUDs as "morally questionable". Then they started saying that hormonal birth control is abortifacient. Now they're saying that contraceptive foam and gel damage sperm and cause birth defects. One of Randall Terry's most famous moments was when he spoke out against contraception because it meant "people using each other for pleasure".

Read "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America" for a little more insight. These people are against birth control as a concept. They are against women doing anything but having lots of children and submitting to their men. It's kirche, kinder und kuchen all the way.

We're programmed to look for exotic. Heterozygocity means a better chance of our kids surviving and making more copies of us.

So who are these exotic strangers we marry?

Black? Not so much if you're not Black. And Black women are pretty damned vicious about enforcing the separation. An ex-girlfriend of mine was pretty much disowned by her sisters for marrying a White man. And a Black man who marries a White woman might hear the end of it in the next hundred years, but probably not.

Latinos/Latinas? It's happening. The rate is going up, but the cultural barriers are still coming down.

Jews? Romany? Not enough to really make a dent. And there are strong barriers there.

Asians? Yes to a lot of things you've said. But - here's the brutally honest part - I will tell you exactly what Asian women get out of it.

They got to marry someone who isn't an Asian man.

Sorry. There's no nice way around that one. A lot of Asian men are imperious at home. The more traditional they are the worse it is. A couple Japanese friends won't marry anyone and only date White or Black men because the only model they have is their parents'. Both of them have used the term "slavery" to describe a woman's fate in a traditional marriage. They want more out of life than being a servant to their in-laws.

Certainly money and status are part of it. Insofar as marriage is an economic relationship and Whites have more of that in the US it's a concern. But on the whole Asians have done quite well, so it's not the whole story.

Being a woman in a traditional Asian household is a crapshoot, even in America. A lot of women have voted with their feet.

Pretty much since the beginning of the Iraq Debacle Salon has been pushing "Israel is Going to Bomb Iran".

First it was "Now that the US has invaded Iraq".

Then it was "During the Summer". Several Summers.

Then it was "During the Run-up to the US Presidential Election".

Then it was "Before Bush Leaves Office."

It didn't matter who was Prime Minister. It didn't matter what was happening in Israeli politics. It didn't matter what was happening in the US, Iran or Lower Slobovia. No matter what, The Perfidious International Zionist is about to bomb Iran.

It hasn't happened. There isn't any sign of it happening. It probably isn't going to happen. But that doesn't matter to you or to the editors at Salon, does it? You have to keep telling the same old baseless discredited lies in order to get your bi-weekly ZOG Conspiracy fix. Like all good nutjob conspiracy theories failed predictions are no reason to change your conclusion. The fact that it would require the Evil Conspirators to be stupid, suicidal and act consistently against their own interests doesn't matter. The facts are irrelevant. Only the Party Line matters.

Color me....mmmm...extremely impressed at the suave grace with which you wipe the foam from your lips.