I simply disagree. And as far as asserting that lefties ought to forgive Gibson... Well, harumph to that. After the last eight years, and how completely servile and complicit the media has been. Whew!

But, no... You are not sexist; just a little too optimistic. And I like you for that.

I had my worries about Salon after you took over, but no longer.

I sure wish more Americans read it, then America might not be so terminally encephalicly rectalized.

Wallace's book, Infinite Jest has been on my short list of books to read (the length is pretty intimidating) for a while now.

One cannot know the details of what really was going on with him - maybe he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. I have tremendously mixed emotions about people who kill themselves without good reason - as in the case of a painful illness - because they take huge pieces of the people who loved and cared about them with them. Judy Collins once said that her son's suicide was a way to tell her: f**k you. There's a lot of truth to that. And for Wallace to set it up (if that was the case) for his wife to discover him really makes me angry.

I don't know what else to say. Reading about this yesterday really, really bummed me out. Sad.

That was a very thoughtful and well articulated response.

But, one could make the same argument - and many defense attorneys have - for someone who takes the life of somebody else. I don't think anyone will argue that Medea was in her right mind when she murdered her own children. What makes Medea's act criminal - at least in the eyes of our past and current mores - was others were killed or made to suffer physically by her own despair (BTW, these are just examples that come to mind. It's mostly men that perpetrate this kind of ugliness). I still think what Sylvia Plath "did" to her children was unforgivable, regardless of what a philandering schmuck Ted Hughes may have been.

Sylvia Plath didn't kill her children. She killed herself, and left that legacy for her children.

Mattel out-sourced the manufacture of their Margaret Thatcher doll... And something went terribly, terribly wrong.

Some organisms breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. You, darlin' breathe in methane and breathe out carbon monoxide.

Planet killer - we love you anyway.

Up until a short while ago, I thought as the economy tanked the chances of an Obama win would go up concurrently; how wrong I now feel. I'm now beginning to feel, even though the circumstances are completely different, that this is looking more like the conditions under the Weimar republic (without their wacky inflation. Yet?). Certainly, I think, the set of conditions for scary demagoguery is now very ripe.

I hope Obama wins. But sadly, he's going to inherit a huge mess... And will probably get blamed for it too.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! You cursed brat! Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world. Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness."

-The Wicked Witch of the West

...Otherwise, oh, how I agree with you.

I'm certainly scandalized... But the rest of America? Dream on.

And that Nancy Pelosi was involved in this makes me want to puke! And if there is any doubt as to why the FISA/TeleCom immunity bill was passed - when as Barbara Boxer had suggested indemnifying the TeleComs be done as a means to get to the truth - to those in the know, this should dispel all of that completely. Whew!!

(LoL!!) that Reuters photo is too much - check out the box that guy is carrying. (LoL!!) Iron Mountain *snort*

For all your readers who don't know what that is: Iron Mountain is an off-site data security company. Institutions of all kinds have their data backed up and sent to them.

That Reuters photographer deserves a prize for that. Love it!

Hey, maybe Lehman, et al. can do a little backup restore? Whaddya' think? (LoL!!!!!!)

May I suggest, if I may... Go out and get yourself a nice copy of Nine Inch Nails' "Downward Spiral", put it on your CD player, or whatever. Then turn that volume up real load and... Well, you'll feel so much better. Trust me.

Hugs 'n kisses, Honey.

You're my favorite. You should read Robert Reich's (who I generally like a lot) wimpy little take on it all today. He says: Regulation!! I say: A dollar short and a day late.

One more thing: Risk assessment is going to be the field to go into in the future - from economics to scientific research and development. Everything we do from now on is going to have exponentially more impact than ever before.

Sarah Palin still takes the cake.