Even in a species-ist way. No 21st century American ever compares an African American to a monkey in an innocent way. Certainly no political person ever would do so. Any honest politician would have stayed away from monkeys, after the nasty tea-baggers showed up, during the election, with stuffed big-eared monkeys during political rallies.

Rep. Blount can deny (wink, wink, noodge, noodge), but he appears to be using racist creep rhetoric. He could have made his point in a different, better way. This is not a difficult concept.

Cynical, creepy, stupid.

The Beatles lasted about a decade. That is a wonderful, long career for a band. Musicians are cuckoo, even the Beatles. They get feisty, and annoy each other, and move on.

Second point: All those Apple expenses and all the music expenses were tax-deductible. They should have figured out a better way to do it, but they could have afforded even more.

I heart Ringo.

This twit hillbilly Congressman may get a big boost from his nasty rudeness. He should be a low-life outhouse cleaner/sucker or the guy who scrapes fly-buzzed roadkill off his pot-holed gravel deep-South county highways, rather than a Congressman.

We might allow his cliche bad manners in such people, maybe. But such people never make national policy. Nor do they get on national TV. This-here guy looks as if he might have been some big frog in some tiny Confederate pond sometime back in his miserable mosquito-stung South Kalincky past. But he is rude. He cannot comprehend how to govern.

Hey, Joe! I invite you to my house in West Michigan. We will cook for you, put you up, and so on. If you can talk to and listen to nice, smart people and keep you speech civil, keep your elbows off the table, make your bed... we may decide we can live in the same country as you.

Otherwise, you and your Southern mythos cuckoos may need to conquer some small country, and then move there, rather than try to live with Americans who want to move ahead into next year.

You can contact me directly via King Kaufman, one of Salon's executives.

And even the bankers they saved are nasty, unrepentent, unenlightened dopuses. Did they save us as well, or did they save only bankers and senior AIG employees?

My local Grand Haven, Michigan Chase banker Dennis is a great guy, but I do not trust his bailed-out Wall Street bosses.

They found the poor guy in a flophouse in Holland, Michigan, dead, age 50, due to long-neglected skin cancer. Raymond. That was his name. He was no Wall Streeter, but he was okay. He worked for me and did a good job for a couple years. After that, he cut off contact.

No matter how kooky he may have been, though, he deserved medical care. The USA is shameful. The current health care legislation options do not go far enough. Support what we can get now, and then work for better.

...But I will come back. Please bring in a sports writer. Do not make King do it. Put him in charge of Whole Darn Salon. But please find somesportsbody. That would be a substantive change.

You probably need this surface change, but substantive changes, revitalizations, call them what you will... These are more important.

I talked to a nice, dutiful cop yesterday, and he did not Taser me. Cops must have anonymous opinions on this topic. Good Cop, Have you seen torturous Tasering? Please tell us about it.

And they will call August 4, 2009 the Day Barack Obama's Music Died.

But your kids need doctors! Poster Rrheard, I hope you are young and childless. Isn't that a terrible blessing?!

Yikes! I really hope you have lovely children. And I hope they have health coverage. Oongawah! (As Tarzan would say. He had no health insurance, though. He and Jane had to file banckruptcy when they could not afford Boy's birth.)

Do not confuse them with the facts!

But this is not a theoretical issue for many of the rest of us. We have stopped going to our doctors and dentists. Obama seems to have gone theoretical on us. He would have done better if he had not tried to compromise, if he had made it a moral issue, or a human rights issue.

Eventually, you will have to look at my orange teeth (no more dental insurance), on TV, as my platoon of leftie revolutionairies take over Washington.

Pay me now or pay me later.

You guys who do not like national health care: The USA has a total health care bill. We will spend it either way. If poor people have no insurance, we pay for their care, anyway, eventually.

When people in your neighborhoods lose their jobs, and lose their health insurance, they may hold off for a year or so on doctors and dentists, but they go back eventually, when they have medical problems. And we pay for it anyway.

Rich right wingers are irrational, illogical, and meaner than hell on this topic.

As Ronald Reagan did. Or she is the Duke of Windsor, maybe. That would be better. Public respect, but no chance whatsoever for actual power.

Most of the rich people I know did not earn their money. They are nice people, most of them, but they got their dough from their families. They did not earn it.

Yet, they tend to rant about "earning it, deserving it." Baloney. Generations ago, some Americans earned fortunes. Their fifty-years-old grandchilderen now imagine themselves as Great American Tycoons, but, crap.

These are the grandpas in black leather jackets at the mall. These are the boring folks in tan pants and running shoes who bid up cheese prices. They have nothing to contribute to American society, except they can pay their grandchideren's college tuition with their own grandparents' money.

Yuk. If you ever get rich, please remember where you came from.