You are wasting a ridiculous amount of breath trying to answer the substance of UTR's posts. He is immune to logic and analysis. Just make fun of his "research," congratulate him for not yet having been killed by a scary black man, and suggest that he hates black people because he knows his wife aches fop a good a strong black man to protect her.

Ouch...I'm thinking twice before I hit publish on this one. Ah what the hell.

But I'm not buying into this one. He shouldn't be allowed to be famous for being a douchebag, but he is somehow. At the very least I can ignore him and thus not contribute to his fame. Crap, maybe I shouldn't publish this letter...

Yes. It always has had one, too.

I had no clue U.S. legislation had controlling effect in Great Britian. Do tell us more about how government works.

Wow. I was basically raised in a church, so when I say this woman's got some serious sexual hangups, it means something. If that's how my wife described my fumbling attempts at initiating intimacy, I'm pretty sure I would have called a lawyer by now.

...the difference is only a matter of degree. And anyone who thinks 30 Rock is merely mean-spirited or heartless hasn't watched the show. It's goofy, but it's been downright touching at times. Jack's relationship with his mother comes to mind, as well as the fact that they manage to make the Beeper King a sympathetic character, even if it's only for seconds at a time.

A comedy can be mean-spirited and still retain some sympathy for its players. Even ridiculously mean-spirited comedies like South Park and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia do it once in awhile. The only brand of comedy that seems to be completely devoid of sympathy is dreck like Borat and Bruno.

Nacy Pelosi said people were carrying signs to town hall meetings with swaztikas on them. Which would probably have been offensive if it wasn't true. And numerous right-wingers drew the comparison between Obamacare and Hitler's health policy before she made any Nazi-referencing comments. But sure, it was totally her fault for being so fucking polarizing. Glad to see you don't let facts get in the way of making rhetorical points. No wonder right-wing fuckwits like you so much.

As for tort reform's absence from the health care bill, the vast majority of malpractice cases are heard in state courts, as are the vast majority of all tort claims. Tort reform at the federal level is a big red herring, nothing more. If states are concerned about it they should regulate it by statute. I'm tempted to give you a pass on that because you're obviously not a lawyer, but you're the one holding yourself out as some king of civics expert. And as a civics expert you probably know that the Democrats would never win an election without the support of plaintiff's attorneys, which is why they'll never bother to shoot themselves in the foot by proposing tort reform.

Rwanda, 1994, over 500,000 people were killed in about 100 days. That's more than 9/11 every day for 100 days. Over 400,000 people have died in Darfur, and more will because the international community continues to do nothing. Over a million people died during the tsunami disaster. Roughly 30,000 people die from starvation and malnutrition every day. But eight years ago 19 guys with box cutters flew airplanes into buildings, killing less than 5,000 total, and we are unable to talk about anything else. And everything must change because we've entered some new era, defined by the threat of annihilation at the hands of terrorists, because on one day they managed to kill under 5,000 people by flying planes into buildings.

What a ridiculously soft and self-centered people we are.

(no intended disrespect to the author, just a comment on the general reaction to the attacks)

Somebody brought up the fact that Obama has not yet addressed this murder. If he addressed every murder in Michigan, I imagine he would be pretty busy. Since we don't currently know anything about the murderer's motives, it's a bit early to weigh in on whether the incident is deserving of a presidential soundbite. If it is somehow revealed that this was the targetted killing of a pro-life activist for his beliefs, I would imagine we'll get some sort of sound bite from someone in the executive branch.

And finally the factoid I repeat every time we talk about abortion: no system of law has ever considered an undelivered fetus (or baby if you prefer the term) a human being for the purposes of its laws related to murder. Since you must kill a human being to be guilty of murder, and a fetus has never been considered a human being, abortion is categorically not murder. And when I talk about systems of law, I include God's law, lovingly reproduced in books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Recall that the prescribed punishment for murder is death, but the prescribed punishment for causing a woman to miscarry is not death. If the destruction of a fetus is really morally equivalent to murder wouldn't God prescribe death for someone who caused a woman to miscarry?

Your take on Juno is pretty accurate. The performances made the movie, the script was merely ok. The one who should have gotten the most attention for the movie was Ellen Page, although I thought Jennifer Garner was pretty great too.

Not to say Ellen Page didn't get attention, it's just that the focus on Cody has sort of buried the real story with that movie.

Really, Tracy? Got any other words to describe him besides "hulking?" How bout "savage" or "swarthy?"