is that the Spanish prosecuted the perpetrators, afforded them full due process and have nonetheless not been attacked.

Remember when Giscard d'Estaing let Carlos the Jackal go a few decades ago, on the grounds that this would make France safer? This is the exact opposite. This is saying, "I fight against those who attack me, but I'm not going to go pick fights with people who don't attack me." And, so far, they've been able to do it without becoming the target of terrorists seeking to free those convicted.

When you compare that to the Bush Administration's arguments against affording due process to the people rounded up after 9/11, whether sent to Guantanamo, deported, extraordinarily rendered to God knows where, or arrested in places like Dearborn and Buffalo, you see how their fear-mongering was overblown. Or did I miss the hand signals the Spanish defendants were sending during their trials?

According to the Beatles Encyclopedia, the Beatles alighted at 1:35 pm on February 7, 1964 (just 45 years ago last Saturday) on Pan Am Flight 101, and held their press conference after clearing customs "on the first floor of the main terminal." And the Jesus quote was from an article by Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard on March 4, 1966. Link at my signature.

Pelosi thinks her mother is a liberal, so if her mother is portrayed as mainstream in a portion of the media, then the media must be liberal. The flaws in that reasoning are self-evident.

When the Democrats were in the minority in Congress, they just rolled over for the Bushies. When they got to be the majority, they continued to roll over. How many appointments were blocked by a failure to get 60 votes? Oooh, we're scared of the nuclear option. How many times did Pelosi use her power as speaker to stand up for the people?

Now, suddenly the mainstream media is portraying every piece of legislation as requiring 60 votes, as though that is the Constitutional standard for Senate approval. I say, let them filibuster. The 60 votes is what is needed for cloture. If you have no one else to speak, the vote can proceed. The next Senate recess should be when the Repubs all drop from exhaustion and the 56 Democrats, plus Sanders and God willing one day Franken, and Lieberman if he wants to can go ahead and let the majority rule. If it grinds the Senate's business to a halt, so be it.

In the fall of 1988, when it looked like Dukakis was going to cruise to the Presidency against George H.W. Bush (whom Reagan never liked anyway), Reagan started to suggest that, rather than the next President succeeding to the title of "leader of the free world" that that title go to Margaret Thatcher.

Isn't the timing of the Bradbury memos the same? What they took for themselves, they damned well weren't going to allow that black guy to have (whether he wanted it or not). It's just like the contrast between the ordinary citizen's civil liberties and Ollie North's, or the equal protection clause as applied to George W. Bush voters in 2000 in Florida versus anyone else.

Unlike some others, I laughed aloud at what you wrote about him looking for a replacement if he'd lost you. I've always felt that when we lose someone we love, looking for a replacement (and knowing that the quest is futile) is the highest compliment. No one will fill Philip's hole in your life exactly, but there is nothing wrong with seeking out small ways to make it smaller.

Arguing over who gets to drive the truck. If they weren't stoned doing it, they should have been.

Yogi transcended his affiliation with the Yankees. Hanna-Barbera based a cartoon character on him who had nothing to do with the Yankees. He's from St. Louis, which is not irrelevant to his story. He managed the Mets to a World Series. The rather large majority of us fans who hate the Yankees, particularly the Steinbrenner/Rodriguez Yankees, feel some ownership over Yogi that the subhead diminishes. If Barra wanted an episode of Yankeeography, he's welcome to it, but it doesn't sound from the interview that that was what he was writing.

He has exposed the cold, dead heart of "movement conservatism." All they have left is the tactics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, there is no conservative philosophy at all.

John McCain, for all his faults, made his official campaign (Palin's off-the-reservation remarks aside) about the choice between "Country First" and "Change You Can Believe In." "Walken" essentially demands that the media have turned Bill Ayers into Willie Horton for him, at their own expense and by aping "conservative" themes the way Fox News does.

However, I do take him to task for his claim that his view of the MSM is "undeniable." He shouldn't really come into Salon without having actually read Glenn Greenwald. Shame on you, Joan, for allowing this crap to be published without so much as that.

So the criticism of Bachmann is political.

My God, call Guinness, politicians are taking positions for political gain.

The Wingnuts really cared for Elian Gonzalez and Terri Schiavo, didn't they? No politics there at all.

I've enjoyed your columns and your unusual slant on many sports issues and I've enjoyed commenting on them as much as anything on Salon. I'll miss your input on sports and hope you have more input on Salon than seems to be the case. Unless you like the Wingnut.

Get off the "Clinton signed this law" crap, please. Let's say Clinton had vetoed the legislation. How many weeks into Bush's term would the GOP-dominated Congress have waited before putting the exact same legislation (or even more radical deregulation) on his desk and how many minutes would he have waited to sign it.

As to the CRA, show some evidence of it, okay? The toxic assets come from entities that were not covered by the CRA, so any changes to the legislation had no meaningful impact on the economic meltdown we're in.