That is never a problem in liberal industries like publishing, the media or education where liberals simply fire or won't hire anyone who is a libertarian or conservative. Industries where the speeches come in the interview to make sure they are on the same page, such is the black and white world of the progressive. A quixotic battle between good an evil, which can be easily determined by finding out who people intend to vote for.

As a Libertarian, I am so fed up with this administration I plan on voting for Obama. But a progressive complaining about political bias at work? Oh my God. That's rich. Coming from the the same people who believe censoring opposing opinion is noble. I used to be one but got so tired of the perpetual sexism and racism of modern American liberalism. Which is what makes Obama attractive. He is running as an individual, not part of some sociological group.

It's refreshing to hear a scientist, not living with a bunker mentality. I've talked to so many atheists and materialists sure America would crumble into chaos if textbooks had a sticker saying Evolution is only a theory. Well it is. When they can show physical evidence of any species bone's morphing from one to another in a gradual predictable manner, it will be a difficult theory to argue with but still a theory. A rational, logical theory, but still one conception of how things evolved, so to speak. The point is, atheists and scientists treat human knowledge as a religion unto itself, when human knowledge is largely a termporary consensus on preent belief. As an agnostic, I am not entirely convinced of macro-evolution and think scientists have decended into the same bunker mentality of artist, where there sole purpose in life seems to be pissing off the religious right. Wouldn't life be more interesting if one lived based on what one thinks and believes rather than what one fights? Those you obsess over waste your time on more productive pursuits.

Is there a time in the past 100 years war has not been about private profit? Eisenhower warned us about it in his farewell speech over 50 years ago. American companies have sold airplane fuel to the Nazis. IBM helped with the organization of the death camps. American companies have provided the chemicals for Aushwitz. Provided factories, trucks and capitalization for the Soviet Union. In WWII there were American owned factories we didn't bomb despite aiding the German war effort. We had Rockefellar appointed trade comissioners allowing things like the airplane fuel the Nazi planes could not fly without and on Americans could manufacture. For hundreds of years the Rothchild banks would fund both sides of a war. War is, has been, and will be a business venture until people wake up.

Ah, those election year stories. The heading and subheading say it all.

You mean people actually read work submitted by someone without an agent? Wow. And I thought sexual favors were the only way to get published.

Public Schools vary by region. In the burbs parents actually care what their children learn in public schools and teachers have concerns outside of being shot or raped. Inner city public schools seeem more like war zones where the goal is herd people through 12 years without anyone dying. Not very ambitious. Eventually they will just hire prison guards to teach in inner city public schools.

If it were easy, it wouldn't pay so well.

I don't see the point of being independent if you look to others for what is right or wrong. I don't spend much time worrying about what other guys think is cool, macho, or anything else for that matter because I don't really seek or need other's approval.

I suppose at work it is good, and it certainly doesn't hurt in the dating scene, but in general, anyone whos lock step with another's philosophy, politics, belief system or way of life is a tool. Do what turns you on. Not what your hair kuckled professor thinks is appropriate.

It's like AA. They just replace one dependence with another. People have to get a fucking spine and do what they want with their lives, not what they read in some magazine. What women should be asking themselves is not whether or not others would approve, but why others expect them to give a flying fuck what they think. Shake them off. People who tell you how to live or think are sick and needy control freaks. Then again, is that what I've just done?

The point is, live your own life.

The whole election was about tokenism. The important thing is, either way history will be made, paving the way for others. BTW are there any writers working for Salon that are not supporting Obama? Part of the reason people drift to the right in the first place is the censorship and blacklisting progressives do. You don't stop users from expressing opinions, but god forbid you have any variety here. God forbid you hire a Libertarian writer. It is specifically that kind of intolerance, and lack of diversity that turns people against the media, and paves the way for Fox news. There is no other alternative save talk radio and the Wall Street Journal opinion section.

Has it ever occured to Salon, that progressives are occasionaly wrong? That corporations arent all evil, the profit, rather than being the horror you imagine, provides jobs with benefits, which in turn pay for all those programs and giveaways that have turned enabling and codependence into a national platform. Oh, I'm going to vote for Obama because I'm so sick of the way things have been going. But I don't believe politics is black and white struggle between good and evil. The good guys and bad guys. That democracy is best served by media outlets with one political party represented.