Count me as another subscriber who isn't interested in supporting a mag that headlines this right-wing drivel.

"The Ohio election was stolen" is a theory, a set of interpretations and hypotheses based on the evidence. It is not proven fact. Nobody disputes this.

Manjoo and the other critical experts he refers to provide another set of interpretations. Nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is the dishonest and logically spurious attempt to convince us that simply coming up with an alternative interpretation amounts to a "debunking."

Manjoo's article isn't interested in honest debate. It's a hit piece meant to dismiss the "stolen election" viewpoint with dishonest logic sprinkled with a liberal dose of belligerent contempt. Sadly, Salon's Joan Walsh seems sympathetic to this agenda. Judging by the letters, Salon's readers are not.

There may be an abundant supply of gossip floating around on the web. I don't want to wade through all of that crap - I want the concise, witty, intelligent diversion that was the Fix. What I like about Salon is that it's a first stop for reading to fit any of my moods: intellectual, political, cultural. If I was only interested in serious political journalism, I would not be subscribing to Salon.

Do we really have to read yet more bulls*** casting Bush as a righteous-but-misguided ideologue?

Maybe, if the rumors are true, the boozing has made him actually come to believe his own lies.

But let's be clear: Bush & Co are nothing but a gang of crooks whose only intent was to lie & con their way to power and profit. And they have succeeded in large part due to the media, the chattering classes, and even the opposition politicians colluding in this fairy tale of well-meaning-but-flawed crusaders.

I'm tired of hearing it, and I certainly don't need to read it here.

Yes, Blockbuster absolutely does have special versions of movies. As other posters have noted, these are the "R-Rated" versions of movies originally "NC-17". They don't warn consumers that they're getting chopped versions. I once rented "Bad Lieutenant" from a Blockbuster and then felt very confused afterward reading reviews of the movie - until I realized that I'd been cheated with a bowdlerized version. Needless to say, I stopped patronizing Blockbuster. I didn't want to do the research before every movie rental just to make sure I was getting the artist's vision rather than the one prescribed by the Family Values mafia.

is the fact that Blockbuster replaces the NC-17 theatrical release with a censored/chopped/bowdlerized version without warning you that this IS NOT the real version. You never know what you're getting from Blockbuster.

A plan that's worse than no plan at all. The parasitic health insurance industry is the beginning and end of the problem. Clinton's "solution": reinforce their stranglehold. Ummm...remind me again, how much $$$ does she get from the health care industry?

...didn't stop working when the Bible ended."

Other people believe the same thing...they're called Muslims. How about Bahai? Does having a god and a set of holy books in common make Christianity just a sect of Judaism? If Mormons want to call themselves Christians, more power to them. But it's simply misleading to equate the theological differences between Mormons and mainline Christian sects, with the difference between, say Catholics and Baptists. The differences between Catholics, Protestants, & Orthodox sects boil down to nuances and interpretations: do you go to heaven based on deeds and faith, or faith alone? Is the eucharist literally or figuratively the body of Christ? Are priests allowed to do the nasty? However important these nuances may seem, the sects all share the same set of religious texts & core beliefs. None of the mainline sects even come close to anything as divergent as a whole new prophet and religious book...

The primary feature of true, organic amnesia is the inability to form new long-term memories. This is the part that the pop-culture version of amnesia gets wrong. "Memento" comes to mind as a film that actually comes close to a realistic portrayal of amnesia (but not perfect: more distant memories are intact; amnesics don't forget their childhood and their identities, at least any more than the rest of us. The sort of global "forget everything" amnesia that people who've a recent brain trauma suffer from tends to be a temporary state).

You can, by the way, tell if people are faking it. Faking amnesia following a head injury is apparently not an uncommon form of insurance fraud. There are behavioral and neurophysiological tests that can detect when people are pretending not to remember. You can defeat the tests if you're savvy to them, but most people aren't.

The idea that these servers will be around in 20 years is just laughable.

who proved that Democratic voters are tired of right-wing corporate democrats. That's all she achieved in her run. Unless you think that proving once and for all that you have no ethics or scruples counts as an achievement.

If you're a liberal who likes to hear how terrible war is while secretly jerking off to the image of the military as righteous, stoic noble warriors, this show's for you. It helps if you appreciate what passes for witty and deep philosophical thought in college sophomore dorm rooms. A show that navel-gazes endlessly about how terrible it is to kill innocents and blow shit up, while making it seem cool as hell to kill innocents and blow shit up, makes a great recruiting tool for the next generation kill.