I'm almost 100% sure that it doesn't matter what color of magnetic ribbon-shaped decal you put on the back of your car.

There are tangible things we all can be doing if we want to do our small part in ending the war. A bumper sticker isn't helping anybody.

5000. - N.

I believe the Holocaust happened, I am in no way anti-Semetic, and I take exception with the aberrations perpetrated by the Iranian government against homosexuals, women, and political enemies.

That said, I find Ahmadinejad's behavior to be far more civilized, the ideas in his speech far more interesting, and his expressed opinions many times more defensible, than Bollinger's introductor screed against him. What Bollinger had to say was deeply ill-informed, taking at face value wholly unsubstantiated claims of Iranian complicity in so-called Iraqi Insurgency and insulting the entirety of Iranian and Islamic culture by calling their leader ugly names and treating him like an intellectual inferior. Can you imagine anyone, anywhere in the world, treating the US President in this manner after inviting him to speak? And in the face of that treatment, can you imagine that imbecile Bush remaining so calm and respectful in his response?

Make no mistake: If we measure the crimes committed by George W. Bush against those committed by Mamoud Ahmadinejad, they are at best equal. In my opinion, Bush is clearly the more despicable of the two. They are both guilty of: the unlawful detainment and torture of innocent people, including children, for their own policital gain; making irresponsible warmongering statements and threats toward sovereign nations who have done no harm to them or their countries; advocating indefensible scientific and historical beliefs based on their religious and cultural bigotry; and undermining and reversing progressive reforms that would benefit their people in order to advance the power and personal fortunes of themselves and their immediate group of peers. But Ahmadinejad has never invaded another nation under false pretenses, never instituted a program of universal unwarranted surveillance over his own people, never kidnapped and imprisoned the citizens of other nations, and never stolen an election.

And of course, there is the matter of scale: the evils committed under the rule of Mamoud Ahmadinejad pale in comparison to those committed by George W. Bush, because Bush has literally Trillions of dollars to spend in his pursuit of power. Even if Iran wanted to take over the planet, which they've never attempted to do or expressed any desire to do at all, they would never have the faintest chance of doing so. The United States, on the other hand, is well on the way to dominating the affairs of the planet; and has both implicit and explicit designs to further expand its power. Even at the expense of millions of dead and displaced people who have never done a thing to harm them.

5000. - N.

It's okay to believe the Holocaust never happened. I believe that it did happen, in much the manner that has been accepted by the West as historical fact. I have few doubts about the specifics of this accepted history. But if Ahmadinejd has doubts, that's okay. He has the right to believe whatever he wants, and talk about it however he wants. Everyone does.

5000. - N.

I never watch FOX News - are all their anchors and reporters this bad at speaking? I mean really - the anchorwoman couldn't get half a sentence out without stammering and repeating herself, both she and the reporter were slurring their words to the point of being difficult to understand, and the reporter actually said that "this marching thing" (the demonstration) was getting closer.

Can't they find anybody with the gift of gab? Or is it that the Right distrusts intellectualism so much that they'd rather have their news delivered by people incapable of reading their lines?

5000. - N.

Look. Night, Dawn, & Day of the Dead; the original Romero versions; are essential viewing for anyone. But they're the merest hint of the full zombie genre experience. To attain even a conversational knowledge of zombie film, one MUST watch the following:

The Plague of the Zombies

White Zombie

Revolt of the Zombies

Re-Animator

Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead)

Return of the Living Dead parts 1-3

Wild Zero

Evil Dead parts 1-2

Shaun of the Dead

28 Days Later

Night of the Living Dead - Savini remake, a god-damn classic

Dawn of the Dead - Zack Snider remake. I would opine that the first 30 minutes of this film are the finest zombie breakout sequence of them all.

Zombie (aka Zombi 2, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Island of the Living Dead)

Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore)

I Walked With A Zombie

Land of the Dead - flawed yet essential!!!

Tombs of the Blind Dead

The Fog (original)

City of the Living Dead

The Beyond

and of course,

Bowery at Midnight

And that is merely scratching the surface of the most consistently entertaining movie genre this side of Hong-Kong.

5000. - N.

This is the most ridiculous topic I've read in a serious news publication in some time.

An article about Michele Obama's butt is exactly, precisely like writing an article about her big lips or her nappy hair. It reduces a prominent, dignified woman of letters to the very sort of fetishized cultural stereotype you scornfully refer to.

I'm not an easy guy to offend, but this bugs me a little.

5000. - N.