What a refreshing letter. It's great to hear that some Americans still see taxes as a way to benefit the country as a whole, not as some kind of "punishment" inflicted on them. I've been flabbergasted by this Republican meme that's been put about, trying to cast Obama as a villain because he'll "punish" rich people by taxing them more. Hello? Taxes are the way we pay for their salaries. And progressive taxes are the way it's always been done in this country. Hell, during WWII the tax rate for the richest Americans was between 88% and 94%. Can you imagine how the rich corporate swillers would squeal if such a tax rate were even mentioned today, despite our being in two wars at the same time?

My head is all desky now.

THANK YOU. That's exactly what I thought when I started reading this. It sounds like a diary entry about a REELCOOL slumber party. And Broadsheet writers whine about not being taken seriously? Maybe if they learned to write like actual journalists, instead of using the cutesy "girl" language, they could play with the grown-ups.

Also, I was a bit irritated when "dreamy" Campbell used the word "accused". Wouldn't "claim" be a better word, seeing as how being an atheist isn't a crime in this country? "Accused" makes it sound like Campbell thinks being religious is somehow better than not.

OH FOR GODS' SAKES. Not this crap AGAIN!

WHEN are you people going to stop spewing that line of garbage? It's unbelievably ill-informed and naive. Christ, do you believe ANYTHING your Fearless Leaders tell you?

Just for your information, dear, the first people Hitler decided to shake and bake were ABORTION PROVIDERS. Read your damn history books. Hitler had a serious fetish for getting the "good Aryan people" to reproduce as much as possible. I certainly hope you have the brains to figure out why.

DAMN, but I am sick of these brainless fundie memes being repeated OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Sheesh!

jmcdsf - Dude, you passed the trolling mark about five pages back. Let it go. You're just proving to everyone here what an ass you are.

Same to you calmandcontent. (Gee, if your moniker were true, why would you bother coming here to berate people?) All you're accomplishing is making sure we all think "oh yeah, that jerk who wouldn't shut up" every time we see your name.

Of course, if that's what you both want, knock yourselves out.

Didn't he say something about "what God hath brought together"? I could have sworn he did. Something about no man putting asunder...

So, I take it you've never used scent at all. In your life. Right, Sarah? Because you know...strange chemicals. Dunh, dunh, DUNNNNNNN.

What a snide bunch of little girls Salon has working over there.

*grin* Kidding. The description just brought to mind a couple of ST:NG episodes, specifically the Planet of the Babes and the Planet of the Amazons. (My nicknames - can't remember the actual titles.) I can SO see Riker getting all flummoxed at being, *ahem*, manhandled.

I'm an Original Series gal myself. Tacky sets and love handles, FTW!

Not having a TV connection, I missed the rally that was after the infomercial. Does anybody know if it was posted online anywhere? Anybody got a link?

Hmm. That sounds vaguely familiar. What's wrong with Big Brother handling your personal info? If you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be afraid!

Where have we heard this kind of thing before?

Is that how it's interpreted? A Jewish friend of mine (who writes books about Biblical figures, very good ones too, I might add), told me that the way Christians interpret that commandment is totally off, since it's meant to keep people from taking oaths or making promises in God's name, not cursing people and such. The rule was a reaction against the non-Jewish cultures' habit of calling their gods to witness everything in their lives, practically. "I'm busy, don't waste my time," in a nutshell.

I think that actually WAS an episode of Star Trek. Next Generation, sounds like. Don't you remember the look on Riker's face when his ass got pinched?

Ms. Porter is certainly up on her Christianity, at least as it's grown in this country. But I'm afraid she's a bit off on what Jesus might possibly think. Wasn't there something in her Big Book o' Rules about "if he ask for your coat, give him your cloak as well"? "Store up not treasures for yourself on earth"? And pulling all that food out of thin air just to share it with the masses? Sounds like socialism to me!

Poor guy. As Woody Allen said, "If Jesus returned to earth and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

Did anyone notice the underhanded putdown in the teaser line? ("Obama controls the vertical and the horizontal") Yeah, yeah, Heather, I know. You were trying to be retro-witty with your little reference, probably thinking most of your readers won't get the reference, and thus you can feel nice and superior in your vast pop culture trivia knowledge. But what exactly are you saying, other than Look how clever I am? That Obama is an alien? Or some Oz-like man behind the curtain who will hypnotize us into doing his bidding?

Cute reference. Sophomoric review. Fail.

is that it's crap at interpreting sentences.

If you’ve every wondered what it’s like to be young,

Next time, please edit more carefully.

If that's true, can we pack Palin off to Frigia?

Makes him look pretty bad, doesn't it? He'll be your friend as long as you kiss his ass and pretend he's the best thing since sliced bread. But ask him a difficult question and you are DEAD TO HIM.

Seems to me anyone who acts like that is the worst kind of immature jackas...oh wait.