I didn't bother to read the article, because insulting all liberals is apparently okay, from someone who feels Southern whites are under attack.

News for you, mister, you're just a Confederate in a new suit.

What the torrent of anti-medicine comments only confirm is the necessity of articles like this. One poster even claimed "western medicine" is about belief as much as "alternative medicine". No, it's not. One is tested in clinical trials, some flawed, but often not, and always debated by other researchers via peer-reviewed journals.

Most of what's intuitive turns out to be wrong. If you don't adopt scientific method, you'll end up not helping and probably hurting yourself. Acupuncture works, but you know what, it works in proper clinical studies, too! What a surprise! Yet few if any other "alternative medicine" can do the same.

No, even if they turn out to be placebo, it's worse. Nothing you put in your body, save maybe water, has no side effect. Alternative medicine that works will, eventually, be accepted as medicine. The fact that almost nothing besides acupuncture has worked shows how much money people are wasting, and we never know how many are killing themselves and their loved ones.

People like to talk about the negative side effects from regular medicine. But most come from improper trials or obfuscation of results. You know what, alt-med, or junk meds, don't even get tracked. That's why they seem so harmless. But the few that were, caused many deaths.

I'm not saying they should be tortured, but it astounds me that so many people buy into the "religious persecution" argument when it comes to cults. Go to 10th & Arch in Philly. Most days there will be some old ladies there handing out newspapers printed by F.G. with lots of anti-commmunist articles. Or go to NYC and turn on the TV. Every night for a few hours they purchased airtime on one of the channels (25, 73, or something like that), and part of it is spent on, you guessed it, anti-communist "news"/commentary. Not to mention a couple of years ago they surrounded ZhongNanHai, the Chinese equivalent of the White House and Capitol Hill rolled into one. This is in Beijing, China.

Americans need to face up to the fact that there are lots of lying religions out there. The enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/cybersecurity-act

Obama's rescue plan is nothing more than a handout to the banks and "investors". It lets them buy securities, chosen by the banks, with up to 90% (or more?) of taxpayer money. One of the largest hedge funds in the world already publicly said it's a "big transfer of funds from the public to the banks and private equity". The only reason it's still contemplating whether to participate? Potential government intrusion into executive compensation. Now even that threat is removed as Obama puts the brakes on congressional legislation to recoup AIG/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bonuses.

You know what securities banks will put up for sale? The most worthless ones. Wouldn't you do the same?

If they're smart, they'll buy bad assets from each other. You know, it may well solve a lot of problems, because $1 trillion is a lot of money.

So much it could've bought more than 5 million median-priced homes. Sleep on that.

Oh well, if it weren't for Glenn Greenwald I wouldn't be visiting the site. I don't need to be told what I should see in nature, if God were so self-evident. If something as exotic as relativity and quantum mechanics can be accepted so universally (at least until a better theory comes along), why can't God?

P.S. Oh no, don't even try equating Jesus with Allah or Zeus or Vishnu, or Methodist with Baptist or Mormon. At least get your God straight first.

While some colleges hand out generous packages, not all of them have big endowments. Besides, they often receive generous compensations from federal and state governments, which may more than even things out.

In other countries, where basic, universal education actually prepares graduates for decent jobs, people don't have to go to college to learn what they should've gotten in high school, or earlier. Remedial reading and math classes in college, while necessary, are symptoms of a broken system that fails kids from the get-go.

Parents have to take responsibility, too. When so many districts have drop-out rates over 50%, how can they sleep at night?

We're a country on the decline, and no amount of H1-Bs or whatever are going to reverse that.

As much as I agree with your general sentiments, I have to point out how wrong you are: we have been a superpower since only WWII, when the rest of the world was destroyed. But ignorance, greed, and a self-importance supported by religions manages to bring it down to earth with barely half a century. Well done, my God-fearing Americans. Perhaps you should pay a little less attention to the afterlife and more to this present we can be certain of.

Like Sarah Palin and her church. They call this the end-times.

And your post was so chock-full of negativity your assertion about positiveness went begging.

Even if Obama wishes to avoid the stereotype, it explains nothing about the absence of Biden or attacks on Republicans from his surrogates. He did a great job of using sidekicks in the primary, but they have all but disappeared.

I'm really amazed by the self-justification among Obama supporters. My message, which has yet to get across, is to realize the campaign's stuck partly due to its own fault. It's time to shape up or get brushed aside by the amoral conservative machine.

Thanks Glenn for darkening my morning. I love these exposes that no one else seems to care about.

// we weren't wealthy ogres? //

No, because it was understood. It is not even accepted today.