Yeah, it sucks that gay Americans have to wait on this and that the linguist and others are having their lives screwed up.

But if addressing the issue RIGHT NOW screws up health care reform which will affect not only gay Americans but straight Americans and children and which will lead to a higher standard of living and save lives then they can wait.

That's politics. Someone's ox is going to be gored.

Murtha's got to go. This crap is how we got whupped in '94.

Well sure, why not?

If Teddy Kennedy wasn't ostracized after his 1980 campaign against a SITTING PRESIDENT, then why would they ostracize Clinton?

Salon's an opinion site, not a news site, dude.

What kind of nonsense is that? Aid concentration? Come on.

What's with the pimp for the $80 GigaOm Pro service, Salon? You're not paying Om Malik enough?

I pay for a subscription so I DON'T get ads. Get rid of the ones buried in the content.

Add in the church shoot-up in Knoxville where a gunman decided to go after a bunch of "liberals" at the Unitarian Church and the shooting of the police officer in Pittsburgh. That's four acts of domestic terrorism by right wing gunmen in the last year.

When was the last time we saw anything like this? 1968?

Same old same old. There is no there there with this column. Is there really a need for another outlet for Republican talking points? Aren't four networks and 95% of the newspapers and talk radio stations enough?

We ran a large network with their small office VPN boxes until MPLS really took off. Sorry to see them go.

Broadband was once defined as connections of 128K/sec. I think most modern web apps and video apps would choke on that bandwidth. Other countries consider the march to 100Mbps and beyond while we're still happy with 3Mb up and 1Mb down.

It's pointless to complain to Salon about Camille Paglia. You're just feeding the troll. Ignore her incredibly dull act and she'll go away.

Ja, ja, ja ja!

...then the problem is the system, not the participants. You can rail about the "slobs" all you want, but they exist because the system the airlines use is flawed.

A good system will tend to produce the result you want. IF you want clean planes, provide food in low-residual waste containers and give people an easy way to get rid of the waste RIGHT AWAY, like into a hanging trash bag.

Blaming people for being slobs is a lazy excuse for poor design.

...then the problem is the system, not the participants. You can rail about the "slobs" all you want, but they exist because the system the airlines use is flawed.

A good system will tend to produce the result you want. IF you want clean planes, provide food in low-residual waste containers and give people an easy way to get rid of the waste RIGHT AWAY, like into a hanging trash bag.

Blaming people for being slobs is a lazy excuse for poor design.

It's a local thing. He's a local.

"There's also no compelling reason for Gates to have mouthed off the way he did, if Crowley's account is to be believed"

Irrelevant. Gates is not compelled to be polite. He can call them all the dirty names he can think of if he wants and the civilian authorities can't arrest him for it. Period.

That's part of the meaning of the First Amendment. You have the right to act like a jackass and say whatever you want. The government can't (except in VERY narrowly defined circumstances like national security or public safety) tell you to shut up.

The fact you even wrote the sentence about Gates shows how far we've fallen as a nation since the 1970's.

"Barring a major public groundswell or miraculous reversal in Congress, Barack Obama's healthcare reform package will not include the provision that matters most to the Democratic base, the so-called public option."

The Senate bill won't include it. The House bill will. Reconciliation is where we'll see if it makes it in or not.

And he's decided that the best way to serve the cause is to portray a ridiculous parody of a conservative commentator on TV and to fleece the Foxies for every penny he can.

It's a remote intriguing possibility.

Minnesota wingnuts aren't like the Southern variety. At some point the manners all Minnesotans respect kick in and they'll stop to listen to what you say.

Franken did a great job, but against some of the numbnuts who just come to scream in the Southern townhalls, he'd have been reduced to just telling them to shut the hell up and let him talk.

He might run into a problem he can't solve right away and then keep at it because if he's so smart he ought to be able to figure it out.

It's all in the kids' personalities, which we only have a little control over as parents.

And the logical extrapolation from what you and your colleagues were doing in the 90's with Clinton.

Own it Chris, you helped create it.

If nothing else, that's the reason to prosecute. Otherwise the message to prospective felons is "run to Europe".

But Win 7 is also outstanding. A lot of what people have left Windows for in OS X is in Win 7. That spike may be less temporary than you imply.

Of course Microsoft can't market, so they may yet screw it up.

(group laugh)

If Daley hadn't sold the parking meters off, we'd have 60%+ approval of the games. I think his popularity being at a nadir is the reason you're not seeing that.

That said, we want the games, and if we get them, we'll put on a hell of a show.

You know when I stopped listening and realized you were either crazy or a politically motivated liar?

While President Obama and his far left wing progressive Socialist/Marxist Dems