He calls McCain and asks for "Mike Hunt" and McCain puts Cindy on the line without a second thought....

OK, OK, I promise no more character assassination comments from me for the rest of the election season.

It would be much more productive to start a grassroots campaign for IRV and/or proportional representation.

Seriously, who or what is the problem?

I think everyone here already realizes that we have made collectively idiotic decisions and now we have traffic and sprawl and smog and road rage and global warming (and those godddamed smug cyclists just make it all worse).

Some of us are doing our own little things about it in hopes that society will not collapse altogether while we wait for reality to hit and infrastructure to catch up. I get that you can't stop driving, like most people in this country, and that is just the way it is. I don't get why you are yelling.

is perfect.

There were lots of funny parts, but the movie overwhelmingly concludes that everyone has the "ethical flexibility" of a lobbyist. Perhaps that is the way liars feel, but the rest of us are not amused.

Thanks for a new addendum to the long fight over Rachel Carson's legacy.

This is Salon.

Can you ask about creationism in evolutionary biology and get a straight answer without the teacher being sued?

Can you ask about Biblical references in As I Lay Dying and get a straight answer without the teacher being sued?

I thought the "yes" answer to these questions was THE basis for getting pseudoscience like Intelligent Design taught in classrooms as "alternatives." We all knew that was purely cynical and hypocritical of them, of course, but did they have to be so obvious about it and go and undermine it with stupidity like this?

The fact is, the state should not mandate categorically what a teacher may and may not discuss in her classroom, God. Damn. It. And if this goes to the SCOTUS, I am guessing even those guys will agree.

I will never live in the South again. I moved to Vermont for a reason, and I fully intend to stay here.

You should read it. It's funny!

My favorite Onion headline is "99 percent of commuters want other people to take public transportation."

My all-time favorite story is in Our Dumb Century. Well, actually I'm torn between MLK's "I had a really weird dream last night," detailing this bizarre and rambling (and literal) dream AND the shrinky-dink story, in which Jimmy Carter suggests that children save energy by enjoying "unshrunken dinks."

Where the heck do you live? Atlanta? Nashville? Just curious.

but I do know that the "tears streaming down faces" bullshit is not positive coverage. It's what-a-bunch-of-hysterical-women fun-poking.

Sorry, I was just reading all these rants about bad, bad cyclists and thinking "But MOST of us are not bad!" And then realizing that most drivers are not bad either. So, my apologies; I really meant to be only talking about those who intimidate me simply for riding my bike. (I follow all traffic laws and stay put to the right of the white line whenever it is safe to do so, so don't try to tell me they dislike ME because I'm not following the rules.)

But let me just add that in general when cyclists do dumb things or are intentionally passive-aggressive, it often slows traffic down. But when drivers are aggressive or do dumb things, people can die.

Why the hell don't the reporters just leave these people in peace, fergodssakes. I know everyone wants to be the first to break the "It's really over now!" story and all, but this level of detail is truly ridiculous. Next we'll be hearing from Clinton's manicurist that she isn't having her cuticles done at their appointment tomorrow.

WTF?

Also, pulling in front of cars that already safely passed you is rilly, rilly bad manners.