Thank you for your fact filled response to the ravings of Obama supporters, you clod.

What angers me most is the insistence by beltway elites like McCardle and David Brooks that they have any clue what people outside the beltway think. Reading a Brooks treatise about his forays into heartland America as if he is an anthropologist investigating an exotic culture make me puke. Media insiders in New York, DC and LA are giving Americans what they think we want, not what we want.

Sorry, writing about the '60s is the second best way to get a flame war going besides Mac vs. Windows. It sounds like DeGroot fails to place the era in proper historical context. Anyone who doubts that lasting change (much for the good, but not all) came out of the decade fails to understand it. The myth may be larger than the reality, but the reality is enough. I really don't think it's all the counterculture's fault that it got coopted and commercialized. That the counterculture failed doesn't mean it was wrong. In fact, hippie haters should take note of who warned against the war in Iraq, who warned about pesticides in our food, who warned about air and water pollution. Poor Cassandra like hippies, that's who.

You should probably study your history a bit more. How many 18-20 year olds died in Vietnam? That's partially the point. While 56,000 of them died in that futile debacle, many others protested the war. They didn't end it on their own, but they saw the writing on the wall and made their voices heard. I don't hear nearly as much from today's youth, though I think that will change. I will grant you that the '60s young people had the added incentive of the draft

Nope, I think I missed yours. I reread your letter and I get it now. My apologies. Cheers!

I don't blame Hillary for her campaign. It has been cynical and cutthroat, but that's the way politics is played these days. I'm an Obama supporter, but I realized a couple weeks ago while listening to her speak that it's not Hillary Clinton I can't stand, it's a lot of her supporters. Not the ones who back Hillary for her stance on issues, but the Taylor Marsh types for whom every attack on Clinton is an attack on women. The types who insist that, even though she's behind in the delegate count, she is owed the nomination. The type who say they'd rather vote for McCain than Obama.

but god help me, when this show is on, I can't stop watching, despite loathing every one of these people. I noticed that Bethenny's defining characteristic got left out: desperation to get married and have a child while her boyfriend is completely uninterested. The codependent couple is particularly appalling: the social climbing is laughable. I'm surprised that they deign to live in Brooklyn.

It really sounds like a beautiful place. I've been lucky enough to experience similar places.

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I would think anyone could see through this pandering, but a few letter writers who think Hillary is right show me that pandering can really work. Many people really are stupid enough to buy it!

Poco seems to think because he apparently couldn't handle drugs no one should be allowed to indulge. People who draw no distinction between different drugs are ignorant, I don't care how much "personal experience" they have. I, too, can speak from personal experience. Psychedelics were a completely positive experience for me. I haven't done anything in years, but I may give salvia a try.

That's the second time I've been Rickrolled this week. And I just knew it was coming, too!

by everyone but Cary (and the bitter clowns who call her a slut. Sorry you got dumped guys!). The relationship is ending, and you're best off just letting it go. The longer it goes, the harder it is to let go, and the relationship will slowly deteriorate. Like removing a band-aid, it's best to just get the pain over with quickly. Been there, done that.

Wasn't he originally supposed to direct one of the Batman movies?

Best thing is to let go. Don't hold out hope of rekindling the flame. It's like pulling off a band-aid. Best to do it quick. It's painful, but that will allow you to move on.

In college, my buddies and I were always trying to find something cheaper than Old Milwaukee that was still drinkable. We tried Hudepohl, Fox Deluxe, Hauenstein, Meister Brau, Cold Spring, Buckhorn, Pfeiffer, Red White and Blue, and probably a few others. Try as we might, there was nothing cheaper than Old Swill that we could drink. Brewers of the cheap shit have been replaced by regional craft breweries, and the huge conglomerates have bought out the regional brewers of the shit beer.

I'm wondering if she isn't just trying to score some painkillers. Sorry, too easy.

I can't imagine why Obama fell for this. Democrats will do whatever it takes to lose presidential elections. I saw it last night when Larry King talked to Claire McCaskill and Tim Pawlenty. McCaskill said the fact that McCain had probably heard the questions to Obama (cheated, in effect) was no big deal. If the situation was reversed and Obama had cheated, do you think any Republican would let it go? Of course not. Gotta give the Republicans credit. They know how to play dirt and go for the jugular.

If McCain Lieberman actually won, Connecticut would add another Democrat to the Senate.

an article explaining why Jack Black's portrayal of junkie's could be considered offensive.

The diehard PUMAs are utterly irrational. Because their candidate lost, they'll vote against the candidate who is closest on the issues to their candidate. They are fools and tools of the McCain campaign. They deserve no ink and no respect.

Max fucking Boot is a McCain adviser? Why do these hacks continue to get high powered jobs?