I keep being drawn back to that one line, "I will try to die tonight, for your pleasure."

Ummm, thank you? I guess? I don't know what to do with that statement. It's been gnawing at me.

"Honey, what do you want to do tonight?"

"Oh, you know me. Just as long as it involves watching someone die, I'm happy."

His assumption that his death would make us happy — what weird and perverse performer/audience relationship is floating around in his tortured mind for him to say such a thing?

I resent that. I don't hate George Bush or Dick Cheney. Hate is such a negative way to put it. I prefer to think of it as liking almost everyone else on the planet a whole lot more.

Sunday evening, my family was watching the news while I was in the kitchen cooking dinner. A story came on, long by current local news standards, maybe a minute, about Dennis Kucinich and the UFO. They recounted the entire thing: Shirley Maclaine, it hovered X minutes, etc.

I listened from the kitchen and couldn't help wondering why they were devoting so much time to the story. What was the point? It's not like Kucinich really has a chance; why so much airtime about a candidate who has already been mocked (Hannah Storm, just a few days ago) and marginalized out of the running?

Suddenly, thanks to a couple of the other letter writers, the puzzle came together. Impeachment! Kucinich is pushing to impeach Dick Cheney.

It's like one of the those George and Martha sitting at the table political commercials:

It says here that Dennis Kucinich is trying to impeach vice president Cheney!

Wha-??? Is that the SAME Dennis Kucinich who says he saw a UFO?*

Why, yes it is!

What a wacky moonbat, saying he saw a UFO and also thinking Dick Cheney should be impeached. What weird and wild ideas these crazy liberals have! UFOs and impeachment, ha ha! I wonder what other wacky ideas are floating around in that wacky McWacky brain of his?

I don't know, but I'm sure glad we don't have to worry about whether Dick Cheney has done anything wrong or not!

Can't you just already hear Rush Limbaugh moronically braying the message over and over: "What else can you expect from a man who says he once saw a UFO? I mean, does he have a first-class ticket on the train to Crazytown, or what?"

Anyway, about Kucinich as President. Maybe he doesn't look presidential, but I don't think you can deny that he has the courage to take a position and stand behind it. That's refreshing.

* And if he did see a UFO, so what? It's not like he saw WMDs where there were none. Or believed a couple of years ago that the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes" if you will.

I lean toward some libertarian ideas, but in the end I find them, or at least the implementation, impractical. "Once government gets out of our way, it will all JUST HAPPEN, man! The free market, man!" In their own way, they often sound as hippy dippy as, well, hippies.

I know many libertarians of the computer nerd flavor Leonard describes in his post, and for the most part I find them to be either unaware or ungrateful (or maybe both) of the societal policies that have made it safe for them to sit in a room with their computer 15 hours a day. The free market, man, is just making it happen; bringing it all to them.

But the needs of humans are immediate and primary. When a person is hungry, tired, and cold, and the miraculous power of the free market is working like hell to freeze wages and hiring, shift jobs, outsource, downsize and destroy even the concept that labor is anything more than just another expendable widget to be whittled down to near slavery status — that person doesn't have time to have the free market come up with a solution; they will be dead by the time that happens. That's when the libertarian ideal all comes crashing down; it's a nice dream, but it will never just magically happen, and the lack of an alternate plan, which is where I think my liberal beliefs kick in, will only lead to disaster.

As Bushwack00 said further up the thread, this whole ridiculous notion of the self-made man needs to be done away with, most especially for nerds sitting in their little technology cocoons.

Well... Monica Lewinsky.

And you don't even say if the baby survived being shot. And if the baby didn't know enough not to get shot, maybe he deserved to be shot. Where's the personal responsibility? And one of the pundits is right; we don't have all the facts, but I have every confidence that the facts should be classified in the name of national security.

All of which is to say, Keep up the good work, Keith!

The movie industry is a wooly mammoth, waist deep in a tar pit. It's basically dead, it just doesn't know it yet.

The only thing that can save movies is smaller budgets and a releasing schedule that looks beyond the first 48 hours at the box office. Nothing and no one can live up to those expectations on a regular basis; it is completely unfair to single out actresses as the problem. If you look at the box office receipts each week, one or two films grab 80 percent of all the bucks, everything else is born chin deep in the tar. That's not a good way to run a business.

This one is Epic!

My vote goes to Comics for Dogs too.