How many were there? How do you identify economists in a movie theater?

Um... I guess economists are just as vulnerable to the "opium" of the masses as any less mentally endowed human... No?

P.S. My nephew, who grew up on both Star Wars and Star Trek, said very early on that Star Trek is just a bunch of fluff for a brain-dead hippies (nephew has a very low opinion of the 60s counter culture). My nephew also said that he thought Star Wars had a much more plausable scenario for the future. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Which past? There may be more than one.

...And one other thing ever so slightly related to this updated Star Treck Narnia smarmia stuff: If you want to draw analogies to reality with fantacies like the drivel written by C.S. Lewis or Tolkien, I suggest you read Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast trilogy; 'cause that's the real deal.

Read "Wasp Factory"!!! One of the best things I've ever read.

Neal Stephenson. His book "In the Beginning...was the Command Line", although now a little dated, is still very much worth reading. Basically MicroSoft and Apple, according to Stephenson, has been selling us a bill of goods.

Lest we forget that after eight long years and two elections this great disgust the Bush presidency generated "early" in his administration took an awfully long time to take effect.

Dana Perino also said that there were some "positive" things about global warming. Damn if Dana didn't say some the most entertaining (and fabulously bizarre) things during her tenure as Press Secretary. Leave Dana alone, poor thing; she's the only one I liked from those horrible eight years.

Wow!! I can't believe I forgot about that routine Nixon and Agnew did; this brought back a whole bunch of memories, related and not.

I guess the nub here is that the right side of the spectrum isn't mentally capable of receiving as good as they give compared to the left side. Conservatives and reactionaries, in my unprofessional opinion, suffer from much more severe vacuum thinking than liberals and progressives, and tend to be very comfortable with invidious duplicity - it's a special talent they have.

Norman Mailer?

Wow, that picture you've photoshopped of Cheney. Well, I don't don't think I'll be able to go to anymore of those Alien movies now. *Whew!!*

Mirage? Or just the econo-punditry spin machine. Rich people wouldn't be able to take in that profit of theirs if that little red line on the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P just descended in a straight line. We're in the dealing players out stage of this poker game.

It's bad. Those photo are really that bad, I think.

Um... You mean Mommy Dearest isn't dead?

He sure is erasing any doubt in anyone's mind as to who really wore the pants in that administration. 'Cause where's the ole' Shrub right now. Haven't seen much of him lately have we?

...Calling Nurse Ratchet? White courtesy telephone, please?

Representative Democracy is certainly representing somebody well.

The carrot is beginning to look suspiciously like a turnip, and the hampster wheels are beginning to rust. Maybe Amercians should try something a little different from the tried and not so true "pecuniary emulation" and "conspicuous consumption" for a change... Fat chance that.

"What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East?"

Again: Huh!!!?

You meant straight men, right? I didn't even need to read this article to answer your question. Another way you could have titled this (not recommended) is to have called this article: Why do racist hetersexual caucasion men think asian women are all submissive?

"The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be twittered".

Actually, no. This is the moment when the filthy rich can no longer afford filthy rich houses - a little downsizing, I'd call it. Of course middle class domiciles are a little more popular lately.

Nah kids, we're still in the dealing everybody out phase of this POKER GAME.

"All men are created equal"... In a *eh,hem* Republican mind, this means penis owners.

And, well yes, "freedom of religion" means it's open season on anyone who doesn't have an (official) religion.

Some Americans, I swear, are either stupid or they don't deserve to have the country they live in.

..."Ooooooh, look at all the pretty colors.

And look! It's marked down xxxxx - Wow!!!"

Save, save, save.

Spend, spend, spend and spendandspendandspend.

Now, flush down the toilet until we all go to hell.

Repeat as necessary.

Now, back to the article.

That one should come after the eleventh commandment: "if men got pregnant..." You all know what I'm talking about here.

I think what killed my support for Hillary Clinton was her schmoozing with the likes of Rupert Murdoch.

Rupert got an American citizenship as a business decision - the ultimate economic migrant... Even his own children don't like the asshole.

It's a new day kids!!

This goes for whatever party one belongs to.

Drill, baby, drill! *barf!"

Can one imagine the growth industry and the wealth generated by developing both forms of solar energy (not to mention all the people this would gainfully employ): solar voltaic and solar thermal - a reasonably clean and safe alternative to the oil industry's blah,bhah,blah.

There's plenty of realestate around both California and Nevada to power all of The U.S., Canada and Mexico too!

... And don't get me started on the R.I.F. program they have out there at the Livermore lab under developement.

Those so called "classic"(that's what they're calling themselves now) conservatives are totally brain-dead bunch. And now we have Blue Dogs (what a name!) to replace them.