I'm in basic agreement with Nader and Gonzales on pretty much everything - At least their rhetoric sounds really, really good to me. But have they become prisoners to their own message, masters of beat-a-dead-horse polemics? Um... Well, one does have to be fairly narcissistic to go into politics in the first place, but what would they do if they actually won?

The problems facing the planet now are so huge that it's going to have to take something that can rise above left/right dichotomy.

It gives me a little hope that this time around people are waking up and smelling the coffee.

*double sigh*

Poor, poor, poor Zell... Poor Zell.

I think everybody was in shock after 9/11... And I'm willing to extend understanding for Hillary's many miscast votes - although in retrospect, giving the shrub club "authorization" to attack Iraq and thinking "President Cheney" wasn't going to follow through seems irredeemably naive (do we want leaders like that?).

It is unfortunate that in our culture and apology equals weakness, when in truth it is quite the opposite. And that I fear was Hillary Clinton's calculation of which she will regret.

Drop out? Never! Hillary Clinton still has a lot to offer, and one of those things is that she really does know the ropes.

"Michael Clayton" was truly one of the best in a long, long time (IMHO). I saw "There Will Be Blood" (isn't Daniel Day Lewis always terrific?) and I walked out of the theater angry and tired. The whole thing was an over-wrought beating of a dead horse to the point of hamburgerhood, or something. Whew!!

No one will ever agree how each and every one of us sees the universe, and that is simply a problem that will always be with us regardless how "enlightened" we all become. I'm not saying Britain should adopt all of The U.S.A.'s ways of doing things, but it's time for them to separate church and state. Period.

We are essentially given the choice of burning our candle at one end or both.

The worst (IMHO) is nuclear energy: you can boil water that way, but I sure wouldn't if I were me (clean energy, HA!!). Maybe we can store the spent fuel at Tony Blair's house and over in Beverly Hills? We can continue to burn carbon - oil, coal, ethanol, presto-logs - but sequestration poses another serious set of problems (of which cost may be the least).

Solar is the best! Photo-voltaic can be decentralized and increasingly made cheaply and very attractively. Then there is solar-hydro (I'm not sure of the correct term). We could place those in our least ecologically vulnerable deserts. And then there is wave, wind, geo-thermal and a whole smorgasboard of other options.

Of course, we always have those pesky dividend holders and board of directors in our major corporations that will have to rise above their need for their short-term junky profit fix for us to convince that it is time to do some jonesing.

Maybe we can remind them that in the era of YouTube, memories will be much, much longer than in the past. Do you think they will agree?

Right there. That little video clip caught on Fox News hits the nail right on the head. The continuous ugly message warping.

This is not about one party or another, it's not about being on the left or right, conservative, liberal, progressive or any other way one wants to slice it; it's not about lapel pins either - this is an issue of personal and collective integrity by our major institutions. And a certain segment of or polity thinks one more bomb is going to equalize and make it alright and erecting one more wall will make us safe.

A million Iraqis, and many others, are needlessly dead, maimed and injured and the media itself, maybe more than any politician, is responsible for it. OK, they weren't all lined up and shot, gassed and sent to ovens, but our America's good name - to the extent we had one - is also one of these casualties of this genocide. Oh, and I almost forgot: the original criminals, Osama Bin Laden, et al, are still running free.

I think Mr. Rupert Murdoch should be stripped of his American citizenship and sent packing. Maybe Australia will be kind enough to accept him back.

I can site more examples than I can count where the actual story diverges from what is actually the "real" truth:

Andy Warhol: One of my early heroes who the more I learn about the more he gives me the creeps. *think lice crawling all over your body*

Friedrich Neitzsche: As far as I know there was not an anti-semitic bone in his body and finally had a rupture with Wagner over this issue. Look what his sister and the Nazi's did to his good name.

Comte de Montesquieu- Fezensac: And well, look what Proust did to his good name.

The list goes on and on and on...

D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

If we know that there is really no imminent threat of mushroom clouds breaking out over the world, but dang, it sure would be nice to get a hold of that Iraqi oil, then let's freak the American people out and... Well, you catch my drift.

Sorry, McCain... But that kind of supply side logic has had it's day... Go home and bang (er, hump) another babe-a-licious lobbyist, OK?