I wouldn't want to make some kind of grievous error because I have misplaced values.

but it looks as if the hostile, snarky atheists are still out in force.

Nobody's in His Heaven and all's right with Salon.

Add: Pride of the Yankees.

Eight Men Out.

Ask yourself: just who is in the military?

That's right! Negroes, Hispanics, and White Trash.

If you are not one of those, don't join! They're the ones who are supposed to "die for their country" (as if it were THEIR country, about which it is to laugh).

You are not a fan of football. You are a fan of arguing, you tedious rage junkie you.

And, yes, the college season should end on January 1 (Why are we eating week-old Doritos and chili on January 8?), March Madness should take place in March, and baseball ought never to be in a position to crown a clutch performer "Mr. November."

Because, as Pete Seeger said, for every sport there is a season.

Once was not enough?

I see the beginnings of a novel--"The Wax Groper"--or an especially clever episode of "Law and Order."

I just stopped by to see what had changed in the last couple of weeks. The "Palin '12?" stories right after the election were enough for me. Salon seemed incapable of actually being happy for a frackin' change and had to start worrying immediately about what was going to happen to ruin everything. So I decided to drop the site from my bookmarks and haven't been back.

It's good (if that's the word--maybe the word is "bad" or "suck-tastic") to see that nothing has changed at all. Salon is still steeped in fear and paranoia.

The terrorists may not have won, but Karl Rove did, didn't he?

though I thought you had perhaps sobered up by now and would give up being an inarticulate asshole for the sake of contrariness.

I see, by the way, that in earlier letters you have criticized Salon for hosting unmoderated threads that repeatedly disintegrate into chaos. Is this your idea of teaching 'em a lesson?

No matter its importance in the Kanye west "aesthetic," AutoTune is the latest gimmick that automatically gets people over twenty lunging for the Off button.

For me, it's not so much "Meh" as "Feh!"

You're trawling for rage-a-holics.

This is Family Feud-style polling, and it is One Big Fat Deal.

Talk about a one-note poster.

You registered a name just so you could misspell a word.

Please stop writing about this person. She was a nobody and has become one again. She is no longer news.

No, it doesn't. He was summarizing/paraphrasing a noxious belief system and therefore had to go in directions he does not necessarily believe in himself, which is a point you actually got before waggling a censorious finger at him.

For the next two months or so, couldn't the War Room be re-vamped as the Sit Back and Relax: You Won! Room?

"ABC News reported that the Return Day crowd was unusually large, and mildly annoyed about the security measures being taken to protect the vice president-elect and the bad weather."

Why was security protecting the bad weather?

(Take the incorrect comma before "and mildly annoyed" and put it before "the bad weather," dammit.)

This type of meanspirited silliness--kneejerk, standardless, triumphalist--should be shelved now that we are (aren't we?) past the unthinking gutter politics of Atwater, Limbaugh, and Rive.

She has had speech lessons. That's the point. She was trained to talk like that.

We all drop letters when we speak. If we didn't we would be guilty of hyperarticulating.

Palin, however, ostentatiously drops her g's. Note that she either (a) pauses to make sure you noticed or (b) slightly raises her inflection (to make sure you noticed) after each dropped g. It is all too actor-ish, too stage-y to be believed.

Place that alongside McCain's WTF?!-ish insistence on damning Obama for his "eloquence," and a pattern of willful, and patronizing, dumbing down emerges.

One recalls that Geoffrey Nunberg characterizes the obviously manufactured Bushism nuke-u-lar as a near genius-level just-folks-ism.

The fuck is that?

Alec Baldwin did not say that. "Alec Baldwin" said that. "Alec Baldwin" is a satirical character played by Alec Baldwin, and anyone who willfully mistakes one for the other is doing the devil's own work.

I honestly do not know. Is there a market for blowup Todds?

(And he strikes me as incredibly scuzzy, in an I-Know-Somebody-and-I'm-Gonna-Get-Your-Ass-Fired-Buddy way.)

1. Is there something that kept you from using what is, after all, a completely necessary political word? Aren't we all grownups?

2. Were any pumpkins smashed in the vicinity?

3. Check the second link. When I clicked on it, an avalanche of popups commenced. (Speaking of ratfucking.)

Please note that her stepfather (and sexual abuser), Beverley Russell, was a bigshot in SC Republican circles.

Tying up 911 lines--the terrorists have won!

Advocacy is not a can/can't proposition, but rather should/shouldn't. And I thought advocacy was somebody's job around here, not weaseling out of being responsible.

No. That would be the election.

John McCain, apparently.

http://www.usmagazine.com/news/john-mccain-uses-american-idol-makeup-artist

Also, we need a source, beyond your "certainty," for the following, brightstarwhatever:

"Pelosi, for example, is a real piece of work in her own right. I am certain she achieves corruption levels CURRENTLY that Palin cannot yet imagine. Same goes for Boxer, Clinton, and the other ladies of the left."

Poor Americans, of all races, have always been attracted to the military's promise of a fresh start, without the stigma of class.

This really is about class. What some of us from the rural parts of the US might notice is the Right's old divide-&-conquer, get-the-poor-whites-voting-against-their-own-self-interest strategy. (Cf. Helms vs. Gant commercial and the successful deployment of the Confederate battle flag over the SC Statehouse.)

She simply needs to sit down with Matthews and clarify her remarks.

I'm sure he'll make room for her.

inspirate.