Can you imagine any powerful Republican holding hearings such as this? Can you imagine any normal Republican even understanding what the heck they were talking about?

Please, let us get somebody, some group, in power... some group who will allow inquiry and appropriate conclusions, with good regulation to follow.

This economic stuff is not subject to the Bible, nor to silly parables and anecdotes or myths from the good old days. We need to figure it out, and do what we must do.

Cheers to Barney Frank! Let's kick some economic butt, based on fact, rather than on silly, poopy assumptions from neocon numbnutses.

Can you imagine any powerful Republican holding hearings such as this? Can you imagine any normal Republican even understanding what the heck they were talking about?

Please, let us get somebody, some group, in power... some group who will allow inquiry and appropriate conclusions, with good regulation to follow.

This economic stuff is not subject to the Bible, nor to silly parables and anecdotes or myths from the good old days. We need to figure it out, and do what we must do.

Cheers to Barney Frank! Let's kick some economic butt, based on fact, rather than on silly, poopy assumptions from neocon numbnutses.

Can you imagine any powerful Republican holding hearings such as this? Can you imagine any normal Republican even understanding what the heck they were talking about?

Please, let us get somebody, some group, in power... some group who will allow inquiry and appropriate conclusions, with good regulation to follow.

This economic stuff is not subject to the Bible, nor to silly parables and anecdotes or myths from the good old days. We need to figure it out, and do what we must do.

Cheers to Barney Frank! Let's kick some economic butt, based on fact, rather than on silly, poopy assumptions from neocon numbnutses.

If you are okay, and you kids are okay, please settle, and be glad. Is your problem that your sister is better than you, or that you do not please your own self, or... what?

Just do as you wish, and do not complain. Separate yourself from your sister. Pretend you never met her. Pretend you do not speak English very good, and go far away.

I do not believe your letter. If you were as okay as you claim, you would not write the letter. Hate your sister for a few years! No big deal! Eventually, she will show her vulnerable side, and she will need to borrow $1,000.00 when you guys are 50 or so.

Wait, relax. Save up $1,000.00. And then make sure your mom knows that you lent it to her.

Hey, Cute-Bomb! Yeah, you washed-out, gray-head with the toilet paper stuck to your shoe! Have I seen you somewhere? Are you famous?

Doesn't matter... You're cute! Wanna look down my pants? I love you! Let's spend the rest of our lives together, Senator... Kiss me, darling! Nudge my shoe!

That twit Dobson is a great example of the simple-minded desire for CERTAINTY above all else. Have you ever listened to him talk? He makes a point of sounding rock-solid certain about everything.

This is part of the mystery of the Christian Right. Many people apparently want 100% certainty about everything. So, rather than understanding that doubt and paradox are holy, they opt for these idiots who sound as if they really know everything.

Guys such as Dobson are very good at sounding certain. There is a certain portion of our population who want that. They do not even care whether Dobson et al. are right. That reassuring tone carries the day.

Now, here's the deal: Dobson has taught himself to sound certain to the point where he believes himself. He convinces himself, and these ding-dongs follow him. Ding-Dongs of the world, pull back! Start thinking for yourselves, please. Your doubts are more profound than the Reverend Mr. Dobson's assurances.

So.... Idiot Dobson already has used his certainty tactic on all his followers: He was certain about W. Bush and many other dicey propositions.

Now he faces another politcal round, and, Lo And Behold! everything still is screwy! No progress toward the New Jerusalem!

But Dobson is a one-trick pony. Now he tries to use that masterful tone of voice, the same tone he uses for everything, to tell people something different, even though his former assurances have not panned out.

Many fools still will pay attention, because they need that certainty (why? I do not know.).

But perhaps others will start to make up their own minds. And Dobson will decline and die. I guess I hope so. But bear in mind that new certainty prophets are waiting in the pipeline.

So unless they are sure beforehand that "somebody" does NOT have information, they will torture. But they probably would not torture "somebody" they knew had no information, anyway, would they? Maybe they would, just to be thorough. What the heck?

And machines probably can do neurosurgery. We do not need to rebuild our industrial base. We will not even need jobs in the current sense of the word.

We need to start thinking of a major step in human society. We all can do as we wish. We can explore the galaxy. We can eliminate injustice. Or we can sculpt, or write, or climb Everest, or spend all day every day having sex. Whatever we want.

Pretty soon, we probably will be able to produce enough lightbulbs and corn and flying cars and so on. Enough so that every human can live a comfortable life, and do as he or she wishes.

This is the goal. Many of us used to think we would get there by "The Year Two Thousand." Please put this goal back into your minds. Believe in progress. And take a look at how far we go during the next fifty years.

The New Yorker cover has Amedinijiad (Iranian PM) sitting on the pot in a stall, with a foot coming under the stall wall toward his foot.