I think Heather gets what a pilot is supposed to be.

But from the sounds of things, it seems as though there were never plans or even very much consideration for actually picking this movie up and turning it into a TV show.

Because America is run by morally righteous Puritans like Sanford and the rest of his sleazy, hypocritical Republican friends, and to them crap like this DOES matter. The self-proclaimed moral majority are the ones who ensure that stories like this keep shocking otherwise jaded audiences. If we were in Europe, no one would give two shits.

But we are talking about people who tried to impeach the President of the United States because he had an affair.

Don't worry, Thadeus, some of us progressive liberals have guns too, and we aren't afraid to use them.

If that were true, then why hasn't Roe v. Wade been overturned since there are already 5 out of 9 Catholics? Last time I checked, 6 were not necessary to write a majority opinion.

What do you think the Republicans would be saying if Obama just up and left the country for a seven-day "exotic" vacation, while misleading his family, aides, and secret service as to his whereabouts and not bothering to authorize Joe Biden to govern the country?

It's not so much that we have to know where he is. It's more that the executive of a state fled his responsibility for seven days, without bothering to notify his Lt. Governor or anyone else or to authorize his Lt. Governor with gubernatorial powers.

In any other job, going missing for seven days without bothering to tell anyone and without finding someone to cover you would result in you being fired, without question. The fact that Gov. Sanford's job includes responsibility for running a state with four and a half million people and a $150 billion economy that may or may not go down the tubes at any minute, like the rest of the country, just means he ought to be fired AND indicted for potentially endangering his constituents.

Except that it's a "family values" Republican ditching his kids on Father's Day, of all days, to apparently sneak off to Argentina while his wife doesn't know and apparently doesn't care to know.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn't give a crap about where a governor chooses to go for vacation, but between those fishy circumstances and the fact that he neglected to hand over gubernatorial powers to his Lt. Gov during that time, this story is just too weird.

Alaska's gain is America's loss.

The GOP, that is. It doesn't matter what Obama says. No matter what he'd have done, they'd used it against him. The GOP has become the party of no ideas, no contributions, just a constant stream of baseless criticisms. That's why even as Obama's administration may be making missteps and doing things that we liberals and progressives find strange, the administration is still far more popular than the right-wing shills who are trying to build themselves up by tearing him down.

So... what? This seems like a non-issue to me. Just because a candidate is young and black does not make her (or him) automatically qualified for just any position. The implied parallel between Obama and this young woman seems to exist solely in the heads of optimistic observers. And in spite of the angry rhetoric, it does seem as though Latifa has been involved with NOW as it has declined in influence. She is, quite plainly, not the "outsider" candidate who's going to bring "change" the way Obama talked about (and has not done) but the quintessential establishment character as far as NOW is concerned.

Why is it so difficult to believe that a woman 20 years older who happens to be white might be more experienced and more qualified for this position?

These people. Not this people. Wow.

If it weren't for the fact that I occasionally watch What Not to Wear, I wouldn't have the slightest clue who ANY of this people were. Seriously. What's the BFD?

Actually, anyone who reads Salon as religiously as I do can tell you that I Like to Watch is one of only a couple features ever published during the weekends here. I think, very occasionally, War Room is updated if something world-shattering happens. So the reason it's the front story is because it's the ONLY new story.

no-one has the right to enforce pregnancy on an unwilling woman

But it seems as though, in at least some cases, the person responsible for enforcing pregnancy on a woman is the woman herself. To discount that women bear any responsibility whatsoever in regards to their own pregnancies is rather disingenuous, don't you think? I'm not one to say that unwanted pregnancies are solely "the woman's" fault, but reason dictates that at least some women are primarily or partly responsible for becoming pregnant. It does not happen out of the blue. To suggest that pregnancy is a similar condition to developing an unpleasant rash removes personal responsibility completely from the equation, and if neither women nor men are willing to take responsibility for the pregnancies they cause that will only increase the rate and visibility of "frivolous" abortions and ultimately seriously damage the moral authority of the pro-choice movement.

until DimBulb decided to show his ugly mug.

Leave it to the self-named master of B.S. to take a perfectly reasonable discussion and turn it into a misogynist conspiratorial rant.