I see Philip Seymour Hoffman -- he should be beyond brilliant.

Will Ferrell reprises his classic W, of course.

For Cheney, I'm not sure Gene Hackman is quite evil enough -- maybe Robert Loggia?

And do we think Whoopi has it in her to do Condi justice (as it were)?

These people are like a planned-obsolescence program for humor -- how can we ever again tell the old lawyer joke (Q: How can you tell when a lawyer is lying? A: Check to see if their lips are moving.) when the Bushists live that reality for us daily?

The trolls who write in every week to tell us that Tom Tomorrow has "phoned it in again" do have a bit of a point -- whatever lunacy anyone can produce by way of satire is inevitably outdone by the actual behaviors of the Bushists.

"a lesbian nightclub she occasionally frequented"

You cannot "frequent" anyplace "occasionally." It's one or the other.

Hey, but at least you didn't call her "slatternly."

who take the difficult step to walk away from one of the most addictive substances known.

One other thing that might help is regular, rigorous, and long-lasting workouts of sufficient intensity and duration to bring on the endorphin rush -- a highly effective way to fight depression, anxiety, etc.

anything to groups that help take care of injured or disabled vets, this is what a few minutes of googling came up with:

(Pls note: I did not vet any of these organizations in any way. And the two links at the bottom of the list make it very clear that there are some questionable players in the field, and caution is warranted. Pls do your own due diligence before contributing anything to anyone.)

Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust:

http://www.dav.org/cst/index.html

Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation:

http://www.dav.org/nsf/index.html

Paralyzed Veterans of America:

http://www.pva.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage

Rebuilding Together Serving Those Who Serve:

http://www.servingthosewhoserve.com/site/c.nlI5IiNXJuE/b.1483107/k.BE18/Home.htm

Homes for our Troops:

http://www.homesforourtroops.org/site/PageServer

Fisher House:

http://www.fisherhouse.org/

Operation Helping Heal:

http://www.helpingheal.org/

Wounded Warrior Project:

http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/site/c.iqLTI2OBKlF/b.1109077/k.DFF8/Programs.htm

Helping Our Heroes Foundation:

http://www.hohf.org/about.htm

Army Emergency Relief:

http://www.aerhq.org/

Navy – Marine Corps Relief Society:

http://www.nmcrs.org/services.html

Some cautionary notes:

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/veterans/past_coverage/13510354.htm

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm

And Salon? It's not terribly helpful when you delete posts that generated such a strong response from so many people. I understand the point about culling abusive personal attacks. But perhaps a better solution might be to delete the offensive personal material, but to leave everything else by way of content?

Why should you do vicious people the favor of not letting the world see how vile they are? If there are people out there who are so offensive as to warrant censorship, aren't those exactly the people we should know about, and be ready and able to deal with?

Haans: "No matter how much the right complains about the 'liberal' media, it is really just a smoke screen to give credibility to their mouthpieces."

Indeed. And even more than that: it's a way of manipulating both the media and the audience, a/k/a "the big lie." And, credit where it's due, it's worked big-time.

Two decades of constantly claiming left-wing bias in the MSM -- based primarily on the near-total non-sequitur of the voting and social preferences of the reporters (which have as much to do with the politics of the "journalistic" enterprises as the party memberships of the line workers and janitors at Ford have to do with the politics of Ford Motor Corp) -- has succeeded both in considerably discrediting the media with the average reader/viewer *and* in getting the media to willfully become the propaganda-distribution system of the right. (Yes, of course media concentration in corporate hands hasn't helped either. Still.)

When we have New York Times reporters going on record that they durst not challenge their President in a time of war; when we have the decisionmakers at ABCNews (I think -- pls forgive; at work, no time to google) sending memos telling their staff to give [even] more weight to conservatroid voices; what we inevitably wind up with is the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on the one hand (having their lies disseminated unchallenged by 90% of the MSM, even as a tiny number of reporters -- in stories filed weeks later, and in the back pages only -- found that all the major SBVfT claims were unsupported by the Navy records, and all the Kerry rebuttals -- such as they were (WHAT were we thinking?) -- were borne out); the Iraq War on the other (last poll I remember, the %age of the population STILL believing Iraq was involved with 9/11 was still in the 60s, maybe even the 70s -- when even Bush doesn't try telling that lie any more); and gobal warming on the third (at this point, quite literally the only actual scientists (not to mention "scientists") dissenting in the essential recognition that the problem is real, is dangerous, and is, in part, driven by human action, are bought and paid for by the energy industry.

Credit where due: It's been a brilliant campaign.

Since, as the cybergeeks teach us, garbage-in-garbage-out, it's pretty much a miracle that any Dem anywhere ever gets elected, since the data the voting populace are working with are so far from truth.