To all the commenters here who say we shouldn't report this because we're giving Coulter a stage to be the crank that she is? I say, no way!!

God, I hope someone (I'm sure someone did) caught that comment and the audience clapping. This is devastating stuff. Another one of those macaca moments. (yee-haw!!)

Somewhere in your entry you said: subvert our democracy, or something to that effect. My goodness, you're being much too kind. I think the more accurate word is "pervert"; as in: pervert our democracy.

Until you joined Salon, I had never heard of you. Glenn Greenwald, YOU ROCK!!!

Katrina didn't cause this - this is indicative of some deeper social psychosis. The cause lies with the disparity between the wealth and poverty, racism, classism, and the failed drug war. The other cause is America's gun culture.

Obviously it is time to address all of these things. I don't have an easy answer for the first three problems - but, regarding the drug war: we need to start dealing with this as social problem and not as a judicial/criminal problem. Regarding the gun culture: it's high time we made gun manufacturers responsible for their products, and sue them for every killing, I say!!

The longer you gaze at your own navel, the more it appears to look like a belly button.

Mr. Tennis,

I don't know if I entirely agree with much of what you said, but it definitely was one of the sweetest pieces of advice I think I've ever read. I think you must be a wonderful, wonderful man. The world is sorely in need of people like you. I also thought many of the letters I read were thoughtful and contained many great nuggets of really good advice.

Mr. No Gas,

Depression (of which I suffer from quite a bit myself) is actually, in my opinion, part of your bull shit meter; and can be a source of very good information. Like anger, paranoia and even envy, these emotions can be tools to tell you things may not be just out of whack about yourself, but can also be legitimate responses to the world around you - any sensible person probably is already aware, this planet has some pretty daunting problems. How can anyone not internalize that?

Hon, you've got to hang in their, and don't give up! 'cause we need thoughtful sensitive people in the world like yourself, too. My little nugget of advice: vigorous exercise helps; get those endorphins going - take a quick walk up a hill, or something. Try it, it helps me. But, if the problem drags on, seek help. And know you’re not alone.

OK, so everybody decides to say the sky is green; enough "experts" continue insisting it is, well then, IT'S GREEN!! Ok? Even though fundamentally and empirically the sky is really blue.

Same with the new (but now rather old) canard of calling addiction a disease: cancer, influenza, malaria and other systemic breakdowns is disease; addiction is addiction - whether physical, psychological or both - no doubt, for a complex array of reasons, some have a greater predilection to "suffer" this disorder than others.

Some addictions, like coffee and tea drinking are benign; other's like marijuana are most likely benign, but may come with health risks depending on how often and in which way it's ingested. Alcohol for most people is benign but for other's can be addicting; not necessarily disrupting or destroying their lives - but yet for others, alcohol can become completely deleterious and totally destructive. Then there are another set of addictions that are pretty much guaranteed to destroy those who fall into their tentacles: cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, etc.

The sooner we give up the idea and stop embellishing addiction with the added word "disease", the more forthrightly we can confront it and give those who actually "suffer" under the weight of this "disorder" the tools to "cure" it or at least put it into "remission".

Furthermore, I suggest reading Susan Sontag's excellent book 'Illness As A Metaphor'.

I don't know if it's just the photos the media has been publishing of him (if a person isn't popular it's always the bad photos which get published), but Dick Cheney is looking more and more unhinged lately.

Am I alone in this assessment?

Sadly, I agree completely with commenter azdirk. We’re dealing with (specifically: Bush, Cheney and Rove), in my opinion, completely sociopathological personalities – each with their own horrible yet distinctive style. What's clear to me now, is that these scoundrels are simply just not going to back down without a ugly fight.

I’m increasingly fearful of someone like Cheney concocting a phony terrorist act – like detonating a dirty bomb – then using it to do exactly what commenter asdirk describes in his entry.

I just finished Joe Conason’s book ‘It Can Happen Here’, and I’m currently reading Jeremy Scahill’s ‘Blackwater’ - so, unfortunately, I can’t claim objectivity. It just freaks me out even thinking about all of this.

(LoL)"That sucking sound is the vacuum of their minds". Joe Conason, as always, you hit the nail right on the head! As a matter of fact, that is is precisely what is wrong with the Bushies and the rest of the neocons: they do ALL their thinking inside a vacuum!

It's going to be horrifyingly fascinating to watch, as the whole result of their policies continue to crash down around them (and everybody else), to watch them continue to operate in the vacuum of their minds, with one lie and spin after another. And don't for a minute expect them to give an inch.

Oh please, God, PLEASE! I want to see them all sent to The Hague for trial on war crimes.

Thing are going from Goodling to badling to worseling... Especially if you have to plead the fifth before we even know what may be incriminating you.

...Must be good.