Never bite off more than you can chew.

I know this is shocking. I have one, and despite my best efforts at trying to keep her focused on Beanie Babies and anything possibly infantalizing, she's moved on to other ideas.

Do we really give a flying crap about this? This is important? Or do we make it so with all of this second-wave feminist hand-wringing prude crap?

The sooner we accept that children are horny little devils just about the minute they hit puberty (which, last I knew, was well before Cyrus' rather robust 16), the sooner we can have a REAL discussion about this and other silliness.

We magically expect girls to be angels until 18, and even then, they can only express themselves certain ways. What bollocks. Girls are busy trying to make boys (and girls) horny, and boys are busy jerking off every second nobody is looking.

This is life. Accept it.

Yes, because Obama was supposed to part the Red Sea, change water to wine, and save our nation from its own idiocy. Look to a craven Congress and a lot of frothy old white people to our failures here. The Presidency, despite its increased stature over the years, is not a position imbued with supreme power. Obama is not the failure here - I lay that at the feet of Congress.

I read Pollan's article before coming over to Salon this evening. I found it most illuminating.

Those of us with any opportunity to understand food, how it is made, and how to make it ourselves should revel in this chance. Food sustains us, makes us alive and well when done properly, and all this throwaway segment can do is cast aspersions at Pollan's gender? Perhaps written by one with all the benefits of an upper-class upbringing, Ms. Harding can get Whole Meals at Whole Foods, but not everyone can be so lucky.

My life has been made immeasurably better by understanding food. Learning to cook - really cook - for myself and my loved ones has made me healthier, happier, and more energetic. Far better than any nonsense fad diet consisting of pre-packaged garbage in the freezer aisle at Megalomart.

Now, I do have a penis, so I know my thoughts are suspect, but I stand by them.

If the percentage of people open to a public option held nationally providing said option were made available, we're talking tens of millions of people. I don't have the data available, but what is the percentage of Americans who are either uninsured or underinsured? Perhaps this meshes well with that group.

Anyone seeking same-sex marriage in Maine cannot currently do so. Typically a bill does not take affect until 90 days after the adjournment of the Legislature. However, if sufficient signatures are collected as a petition by this deadline, the law will not go into effect and a vote by the electorate takes place in November. If Maine votes against the law, then gay marriage will have never happened.

As a resident of Maine, I hope that this does not happen, but after California, it's difficult to say what will happen.

Unless I missed the memo from the Vatican, isn't the Catholic church a non-democratic organization? I really don't understand these cafeteria Catholics who continue to pick and choose, swooning over liturgy while ranting against the hierarchy. If you want a religion where the common person has a say, pick a different one. It's not that hard!

This isn't even meant to be anti-Catholic. It's just stating that a stone does not become an egg simply because a lot of people wish it so.

It is true that they are only about ten percent of the market, but that's far more than the share of five years ago. And as every customer satisfaction survey continues to show, Mac users like their computer experience the most. Windows machines (and Unix machines, for that matter) have come a long way, but there is still something uniquely Apple about Macs.

This sounds like a lovely combination, and perhaps the sort of thing I'll do when I replace my iMac.

I suspect this is a well thought-out book, really I do. But this concept of Jesus as the man-prophet has been an integral part of the American landscape since its inception. Thomas Jefferson frequently attended Joseph Priestly's church, the first Unitarian church in the US. And at the heart of Unitarianism is the non-divinity of Jesus.

If anyone thinks that it was an accident that the nation was founded on very non-Trinitarian and only vaguely religious documents and ideals, it most certainly was not.

I won't even bother to talk about the subject of evil and eternal damnation, because that was the purview of the Universalists, who felt is was a lot of rot. (A religion, by the way, that takes us back to the very earliest days of the United States.)

Ultimately, the real problem here is that the average American is so poorly educated about religious history of any kind that we are doomed to repeat these "revelations" forever.

...it looks to me like there's still bipartisanship! But crusty old Yankees never quite warmed to this new breed of angry reactionary Republican. Don't get me wrong - our local newspaper comments section look like something cobbled together from AM talk radio, but in the end, our national representatives, Democrat or Republican, don't tend to fly off into the deep end in either direction.