There's not much point. Parson Jim is either trolling or locked into a mindset that will cause him to simply not comprehend what you are saying. Changing Lynx to Lynxette, using "honey" as a belittling pejorative... he's pretty much wearing his misogyny on his sleeve.

...should definitely be used on long highway trips. In city highway traffic it's insanely dangerous.

Wow. American foreign policy on the Middle East is equivalent to... a football game.

Do the clown shoes ever cause blisters?

The Times was probably speaking to an audience that the editors determined would be unfamiliar with home canning, but would know peanut butter from store shelves. A large mason jar holds as much as the wine bottle, but fills and empties quickly though the wide mouth. Moonshine, for example.

Reading comprehension much? The phrase is "we're what we've been waiting for." He's not anointing himself a political messiah, he's telling the audience he's one of them and that change comes from the people taking action, not waiting for someone to do it for them.

That said, I'm still voting for Edwards.

"all Republicans, everywhere, who care about honest and transparent vote-counting"

AHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAA! hahahahaaaa...

Whew. A good laugh is a great way to start the morning. Of course they care now.

Why are you buying into the MSM narrative here, Andrew? Using the term "involvement in a prostitution ring" implies he was running it or helping to organize it. Let's try "seeing a hooker" instead.

You tell me which is the more adaptive and successful species.

Let's see... that would be homo sapiens. Dogs are successful because humans don't see them as a threat.

...yeah, no. Just reading your zero-to-jackass in 3 sentences letter, I can pretty much guarantee that someone has in fact has a worse travel experience because of your "cheerful" snotling. I'd even give odds that someone has complained to you, only to be frothed at in much the same manner. The fact that you brook no criticism af your child, or anybody's child, reveals you as one of those parents that give the rest of them a bad reputation.

"Funny, I don't remember anyone questioning how former presidential candidate and millionaire John Edwards could relate to poor whites."

I do. I remember the discussion of haircuts, home size (also applied to Al Gore) and the fact that he is a "trial lawyer", which the author forgot to put in her description of Edwards.

Women who have families and husbands that earn less and take care of the kids. For starters.

Hmmm. As of 2002, the Alaska governor's salary was about 82K; Todd Palin was making somewhere between 100K and 120K at his "seasonal" BP job, before it occurred to someone that there might be a conflict of interest, what with the pipeline negotiations and all. Plus the money from his other seasonal job, fishing. Guess they took a pay cut for the prestige.

So yeah, she was the breadwinner for the last couple of years - unless he's getting paid while on leave of absence. And he's spending so much more time with the kids, that they don't have to have a nanny any more. Oh wait, they do still have a nanny, and Todd spends his time hanging around the governor's office - except for the 300+ days they spend at home in Wasilia, charging the state a per diem for the privilege of having the governor comfy in her small town instead of actually working in the state capitol.

Concern trolls for the lose.

It has become disgustingly clear that all he has to do is repeat his usual platitudes, and Congress will swing into line. He only has to convince about 250 or so Senators and Representatives, many of whom have heavy ties to the institutions that would be bailed out. FISA proved this.

Government has failed us?!?

Say rather that we have failed government, or at least those of us who voted for Bush and the GOP in the last 8 years have. The job of government is to "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity". Government can only do that job if the people in government aren't actively seeking to warp and twist its power to their own ends - and the people who voted these scumbags into power, despite plenty of evidence that they were scumbags, are as much to blame as Karl Rove himself.

...but I'd say that the attitude of CEO's who roll Scrooge McDuck-style in their vast compensation packages while making sucker bets on vaporous financial transactions and leaving their companies in ruins "goes to the heart of how modern financial markets operate" quite precisely.

C'mon, buddy, you aren't even trying any more. Time was, you'd at least make a token stab at pretending to be a they're-all-alike "independent" before regurgitating the neo-con talking points.

Just a quick recap - the CRA does not impose fines, drive banks out of business, or require lending to poor people without income. It does require banks to base their lending decisions on ability to pay, without regard to race or to whether the applicant lives in an "undesirable", i.e. minority, neighborhood. Since the 80's, an increasing majority of mortgages are issued by non-bank lenders - which are not regulated by CRA. Federal Reserve data indicates that non-CRA lenders are twice as likely as CRA lenders to issue subprime loans to vulnerable borrowers.

So you can drop the dog whistle. This isn't the result of letting non-whites have access to money; it's the result of greedy scumbags placing insanely risky bets based on vapor.

"Whack job" is sexist? What are you, a moron?

Oh, wait, now you're going to say I'm sexist because I called you a moron. Get a grip, Joan.