I met a woman the other day whose sister is married to the pastor of a megachurch in Arkansas. They truly believe that Obama is the actual anti-Christ. I doubt if this will get national play, but there a few votes out the window.

That was the hallmark of the "greatest generation"--alcohol, short fuse, frustration, secrecy, and lots of other horrors beneath the surface. My father and two uncles served. My father went crazy and my uncles held it together for a while. My mother also served. She's still drinking and talking about the war. A lot of bad stuff came out of that war, but because we were the victors, we weren't allowed to explore it. Still, don't believe Hajdu. His bio of Dylan, Baez, and the two Farinas was terrible.

Let's put the idea of "deserving" up against the idea of "attack". Did the US deserve to be attacked by the 9/11 bombers? In the eyes of the bombers it did. And in the eyes of some others, too. But not in the eyes of most Americans. On the other hand, did the Iraqis "deserve" to be bombed five years ago, for days and days? Which Iraqis? The population? The people in the streets? What had they done to "deserve" it? Or were they just unlucky? All of you who can't stand Rev. Wright's ideas that the US "deserved" a terrorist attack, do you think that the Iraqis "deserved" a war?

I would rather shoot myself.

He's a Leo, born in the year of the OX. He just keeps going and going and going. He's a lion of an ox, or an ox of a lion, or something like that.

A friend of mine has a sister in a congregation in Arkansas whose pastor preaches that Obama is the anti-christ. What can you do about it? Be patient, tell the truth, hope for the best, and know that if the voters are so stupid that they beleve all this stuff, then they deserve the Republicans.

There seems to be a relationship, doesn't there? This is the country we live in--let 'em have guns and then electrocute them if they get caught shooting someone with them. It's pretty much lowest common denominator humanity, and that's what Americans want. But hey--I don't care anymore. I view gun owners as a sort of vermin. I stay away from them, I don't let my children go to their houses, and when they shoot each other, I say good riddance, shoot another one.

I didn't say I would shoot them myself. I wouldn't use a gun on anyone. I just say let them reap what they sow. You want to advocate the ownership of something that is only used to kill? Fine. Kill with it. Be killed with it. Who cares? This is not moral superiority. It is indifference to the fate of those who act on a desire to kill or fantasize about killing. Go ahead, tell me it's all about target shooting.

Mostly, it's amusing. I don't want to be one of those sourpuss Salon posters. But this is ignorant crap. And not funny.

Ann Veneman would be a disaster! Anyone who has any interest in correcting the terrible state of AMerican agriculture has to puke at the idea of Ann Veneman.

Faith is a subjective experience. Religion is a worldly institution. I've said this a million times. Please stop confusing the two.

Back in 1970, I designed dresses for my bridesmaids. They were hot and hideous and I am still grateful that those poor girls wore them. In 1992, my sister-in-law, a woman with much better taste than mine, outdid me, and fluffed up the bridesmaids in faux French-maid type horrors that looked like upside down tulips. She outdid me! The only excuse is that the bride goes crazy, but why stop her? You have something to laugh about every time you take out the album.

The government snuff him out? This seems to be the only logical explanation of how all of these things fit together. Clearly Cohen and ABC have more to tell, if they would tell it.