Hey Calvin Coolidge, you must have a little pedantic -- right between your legs. Why don't you sign your real name, you troll posing as economist.

Rock on, RR!

I wish I had a couple friends I could meet for coffee, confide in, good friends like when I was in high school or college. A guy down the street who would run with me or play chess. Not going to happen. I don't need any advice about join a church or volunteer organization. I am well liked and well respected in my small town, involved in a lot of causes and events. I have to agree with the guy who said that men just aren't going to have friends.

The original documentary was sad and compelling like watching a wreck on the highway. A remake? I don't understand any need for it, except exploiting pathos for money.

You are my favorite writer at Salon. Now I am closer to understanding why that is so.

Hallelujah!

But as someone working in public health emergency preparedness at the local level, and very busy this week obviously, I'm glad we have Obama and science-based decision making in place

Ha ha you said "bare the responsibility." Bare means nekkid, Asshole. You meant bear.

There's nothing wrong with young siblings bathing together. It's the repressed moralizers, the preachers, the Christian zealots who seem to do most of the incest, child abuse, etc. Leave us liberals out of your perverse Adam and Eve and the serpent view of human biology.

Um, I think Xrandadu was joking?

Bob teamed with Louis they could rule the world.

It's not like they didn't warn us that this would happen if we allowed same-sex marriage.

F'ing idiot!