Cooner:

You're almost completely wrong. I say "almost" because there is, of course, a chance that Darwinian evolution could be undermined by overwhelming evidence against it being uncovered. "MAYBE" that will happen some day (in fact, looking at the history of science, it seems inevitable that any seemingly complete theory will be replaced by an even better theory somewhere down the line.)

However, even if Darwin is thoroughly discredited, there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that ID can be proved correct. No amount of scientific evidence can validate the theory, because ID is not a scientific theory. It posits a designer who cannot be detected by any existing or even theoretically possible means.

We fall into the trap that's being set by the creationists when they try to foist ID on our schools when we start to argue that Intelligent Design is a scientific theory that's unsupported by evidence or even one that's completely wrong. The theory that phlogiston is involved in combustion and the theory that maggots are spontaneously generated by rotting materials are both bad science that's been disproven. Intelligent Design can never hope to rise to even that status.

The whole pink, sassy feminist angle is annoying, yes, and maybe even offensive to women.

However, what I see as the real problem here is the blogification of Salon. Before anyone had ever used the word "blog", Salon was a source of well-reported, well-written articles. Nice long articles you could really sink your teeth into.

Granted, War Room was a good addition. There certainly is a place for fast analysis of political stories with our short newscycle.

Then came the War Room redesign. It's a blog, so a design that looks more blog-like and less new site-like makes sense. Ok, no problem there.

But now you've redesigned the ENTIRE site to look more like a blog, and cutting down on the well-reported stories to bring us even more blogs.

Why would I want to continue to subscribe to Salon, or even read it, when I can just as easily subscribe to anyone else's crappy blog? The way this site is going, I can't imagine even wanting to subscribe to its RSS feeds along with the other blogs I read when my subscription runs out (sadly, it's going to take a while, as I subscribed right before you started making all of the All Blogs, All the Time changes).

As for public opinion, it's abundantly clear that the Bush administration doesn't really care about the opinion of anyone other than their base, so that can be discounted.

As far as Fitzgerald goes, you have to wonder if it wouldn't be "disrespectful" to Karl at this point to not just pardon him immediately if he actually does get indicted. If Bush isn't going to fire him just because he made both the President and the press secretary look like idiots and/or liars, why would he let a little think like an idictment on "technicalities" like perjury, obstruction of justice, or espionage come between friends?

We have yet to see just how brazenly corrupt this administration really can get.

Simple solution to avoid a Cheney presidency: impeach him along with Bush, remove them both, and make Nancy Pelosi president.

Does anyone know where this insane idea originated that if there's a natural disaster it must be because of an angry deity?

No, because it happened before there was a written language to keep track of it. Religion was invented to explain the angry thundering monster in the sky, and some people's beliefs aren't much refined from those of early man.

I'm sure the people who came up with the idea we convinced they weren't related to the apes and neanderthals, though, because the angry thunder monster clearly designed them both separately.

I'm waiting for Carina Chocano's article on Broadsheet, which assumes that there's news for everyone, and news for women, which is too sappy and saccharine for men to care about.

If they already haven't, some right wing nut will use this story to make a connection between murdering your adult child and abortion, and claim that this proves that secular liberals and fundamentalist Islamic religious nuts are exactly the same.

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It's time for Scott McClellan to go. It's bad enough that he lied to the country as part of a coverup in the Plamegate scandal, but now he has the President speaking up to say that his spokesman doesn't speak for him.

We need to know if it's really the White House's position that a decorated veteran is really a coward and a traitor or not. If the press secretary can't get it right, they need to replace him with someone who can.

I for one look forward to updates on the goings-on at my favorite magazine, Teen People. In fact, I think I'll stop subscribing to Salon so I can afford a subscription to this fine magazine, now that I know I'll at least be spared reading about one of the Very Important to Women stories you feel the need to obsess over for weeks on end.

Can we please get an update on Jennifer Aniston, too?

...when I thought that the idea of civilian control of the military stopped looking like one of the best ideas the Founding Fathers came up with.

The idea, of course, was that military commanders love to fight, and the civilian government would consist of sane people we elected or had appointed by the guys we elected. Now we've got military commanders who know that their civilian leaders are completely nuts.

We can only be grateful that these guys haven't been pushed far enough yet to just stage a coup and put a sane military dictator in charge. It's vital that the American people pull together to vote the idiots and madmen out of office before the military decides to do it for us.