Dr. House physically and psychologically tortures his patients for their own good.

Bones beats, batters, and shoots suspects and gets away with it b/c she's technically not law enforcement.

The villains and anti-heroes on Prison Break torture each other for the sadistic joy of it, with the heroes condoning the anti-heroes' torture because they must bring down "The Company."

Sarah Connor and her Terminatrix torture (and murder) because the robots'll blow up the world if they don't (tho' they usually get bad intel from their victims and end up on wild goose chases).

Fox reality shows like Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and American Idol revolve around abusive assholes putting people down and making them feel like sh*t.

And the Fox comedies are torture in and of themselves.

Yeah, I think I'm the only one around here who actually wants to abolish money, so you might want to hone your message a little more...

Those comments from DailyKos show us that Leaderism afflicts people of all political stripes.

I understand the desire for a honeymoon period of giving Obama the benefit of the doubt at this point. After such a long, emotionally-charged campaign, I can see why Obama supporters would be loathe to come down from the post-election high by questioning and criticizing the President-Elect of a mere two days. I also agree with Glenn's fair-minded proposition of not criticizing someone for something you imagine they might do (or not do) but haven't yet done.

However, to say that it isn't our place to question the public plumber on what tools he's going to use as good as admits that you don't, can't, and won't (and possibly shouldn't) have real voice in our government, while the sentiment that his winning an election means he hasn't made any mistakes (and thereby deserves total trust) belies either a short memory or moral bankruptcy.

...or Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Extortion and Revenge.

Stuff like that wouldn't happen to you if instead of going to Subway you went down to the Corova for some Milk Plus.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08298/922489-470.stm

And here's the somewhat more credulous story from the Trib, which is owned by R.M. Scaife:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_594939.html

And Cindy = Ellen, then Palin = Six.

Wow. It's like the last piece of a scary, scary puzzle just fell into place.

...Is why bothered to challenge voters in a 90% Black, 95% Democratic district. The outcome in such a district isn't going to change due to minuscule number of individuals you successfully block from the polls.

Why not focus your efforts in those suburban districts with something closer to a 50/50 GOP/Democrat composition? There, your efforts to to keep people from voting could have some practical consequence, that is, effect the outcome of the vote.

You obviously feel strongly about this issue, and you're intelligent enough to get a JD, so it's mightily confusing that you would waste your time and energy in a district where your efforts are bound to have zero effect.

The Secret Service is interviewing people in relation to the shouted threat in Florida, but as an earlier commenter, it's quite a challenge to find one person in a crod of thousands.

So who's going to lend them this money? How are they going to repay the loan? What's their "business plan"?

...To argue that until someone is convicted, the allegation is only "alleged" (that's what allegation means, of course) and therefore, not worthy of investigation.

You see, when it comes to rich, white Republicans, a conviction is the the threshold for the Probable Cause needed to start an investigation that could lead to that selfsame conviction. I call it the Möbius Defense.

When it comes to the poor or non-Whites, suspicion is conviction. Can't be takin' no chances with our lives, now can we? Our liberties on the other hand... well, we're not using them anymore anyway.

...G. Gordon Liddy and Chuck Colson shouldn't be allowed to vote either.

Salon.com's DudeSlab blog ;-)

Regardless of which party is in power at any given time. Just ask DiFi's husband.

To quote Woody Guthrie:

If we fix it so you can't make no money on war,

Well, we'll all forget what we was killing folks for.

We'll find us a peace job equal and free,

Dump Smathers-Dupont in a salty sea.

McCain: Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama. Let’s face it. But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is.

And who is the "they" that did the picking? "They" would be the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is co-chaired by two former chairs of the Democratic and Republican Parties and which doesn't do a damn thing that isn't pre-approved by both campaigns...

So, again, who is "they"? "They" would be McCain.

In America, the rabbit hole falls on you!

Let's not forget to add the Pentagon's "death ray" to this list of "nonlethal" weaponry. Link at sig.

And go back to the Gold Standard? That'll protect the economy from speculation exactly how?

There once was a bobo named Brooks,

Who got by on cliches and good looks,

But reading his column

(an inchoate slalom)

Is better than reading his books.

Keep it up.

As much as many folks who comment hear (rightfully) deride and mock the Beltway set's idea of what topics and ideas are "serious," they have their own sacred cows of seriousness, namely the necessity of the state and the belief that Democrats can and will resist its corrupting nature, even when it's clear that the Democrats, this nation's oldest political party, has been thoroughly corrupted by state power since - oh - 1801.