Because I said I was a centrist, I must want to bomb Iran? Excuse me?

I didn't say I thought you wanted to bomb Iran. Please refer to my earlier post regarding a lack of specifics. I was talking about "centrist politicians," and made a guess as to what you might have been referring, because, again, you offered no specifics.

You sure seem irritated at Salon commenters about something. I guess it would be helpful, again, to be more specific so we could actually engage in something like a dialogue.

Or, you know, not.

I have absolutely no idea what it is you are trying to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Sometimes, the willful ignorance, the stupidity and the complete witlesness of the Salon readership amazes me.

Me too, Salon reader. Remind me again, what office of world leadership were the Capitol Steps running for?

But I'm sure you know that satire performed for yuks is always funny, regardless of subject or context, or who is doing the satire. Certainly, you'd laugh along if it were Louis Farrakhan singing "Kill kill kill kill, kill the Jews" to the tune of the Dead Kennedys' classic?

Is it the same, or different? And why?

Who's that?

Obama really is a liberal. An old-fashioned, Kennedy-style liberal.

Fine. Prove it. Use something approaching facts and reason, and defend your position, since it's "not hard to do."

I would be thrilled if you could convince me, because I'm no fan of the guy whose foreign policy idols are George H.W. ("Panama, Kuwait") Bush, John F. ("Vietnam") Kennedy and Ronald ("Lebanon, Grenada") Reagan

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I do believe that your suggestion of having a National Election Day on a Saturday is a good one. I just don't believe the day of the election is the primary problem.

I agree with both sentiments.

Workday voting is one of those vestigial American weirdnesses - like still using pints and pounds, or paying an extra 9 mills on every gallon of gas - that I just can't wrap my head around.

It's like we scream "Damn you, rest-of-the-world, with your rational weights and measures and your health systems - we are America! Home of the weird!" in myriad ways, big and small, every day. Why is that, do you suppose...?

I think Obama is a classic liberal

And as I said yesterday, good for you. What is your evidence that this is the case? I would genuinely like to know - as I also said yesterday, I believe he is a triangulating imperialist.

I would find it interesting if you had some rational basis for your claim that Barry O is a "classic" or "far-left" any other kind of "liberal." I might even vote for him. I am definitely not voting for his "opponenent," so no skin off your nose either way...

"(AIDS was) started by human beings to get after certain people they don't like."

- Bill Cosby, December 4, 1991 edition of The New York Post

And George Bush awarded this hatemonger the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

How low will George Bush go?

Send this fool back to China or where ever his kind are from.

Philadelphia, I believe.

I have wondered if some of his latent anxiety/fear vis a vis North Korea

You was brought to the US as an infant. He grew up here. He believes in torture as a tool of control and a means to rule through fear because he is a neocon. The fact that he has a funny name or happened to emerge from the womb in South Korea seems to me to be "true, but irrelevant" as the current saying goes.

I am really distrustful of analyses of people's character based on where their parents were from. Yoo's a big boy. He chose, intellectually, to be a right-wing authoritarian.

Can you be sued for committing a war crime?

No, can you really?

Anbody in tight with the rules of another country?

I believe it's rather a matter of "how many divisions does the World Court have?"

Italy tried to bring charges against the US for the murder of one of its top intelligence agents in Iraq, but got nowhere.

Ana Marie Cox is a bit of an enigma (wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in Abercrombie & Fitch). She is by turns somewhat objective about the role she plays, pseudo-humorously self-deprecating ("I'm just a grad-school dropout with a modem"), and vociferously defensive about the fraternity she so desperately wants to be a member of.

I find her fascinating over on Swampland precisely because she can't find her place. Even karen Tumulty, who's quite accessible for the most part, is entirely too wrapped up in being a member of the group. With AMC, you get a little peek behind the shade, as it were, from the point of view of someone who's more or less in grad-school arrested D.

And I mean that in the kindest way possible.

He just authors a left wing blog in between weekend trips to Brazil.

Any you're just a troll on some gay guy's left wing blog.

Does the phrase "pimple on a gnat's ass" have any resonance with you, tough guy?

Try 00 - two zeroes in rapid succession.

It works a surprising number of times.