The number one complaint among iPhone users, by huge margins, is AT&T's crappy coverage and poor service. If Apple has any brains at all they will drop AT&T as the exclusive carrier of the iPhone the second the current contract exprires. And if they're really smart they should be looking for a way to get out of the contract early.

I really like my iPhone and Portland is supposedly one of the areas where AT&T has GOOD coverage. And yet I hit zones where coverage disappears all the time. Areas where Verizon and other carriers (even with smartphones) work like a charm. Given the chance I will jump ship to a new carrier. And if Apple decides to retain its exclusive relationship with AT&T I will seriously consider ending my relationship with the iPhone.

The pilots should be punished. Oh, wait they are being punished. They've had their liscenes revoked will most likely lose their jobs in the near future. Because they broke already existing rules.

So why do we need NEW rules? We don't. There are literally thousands of flights occuring daily in the US. ONE plane went off course for 90 minutes. One plane out of thousands for that day alone. One out of 10s of thousands for the week.

And we're now supposed to create a whole new batch of legislation to stop and even that occurs in less than 1/103th of a percent of all flights for the month. New legislation that addresses a problem that current regulations already address.

This is classic legislative overkill to an overhyped story.

As Patrick made clear, the bigger issue (and one that has almost certainly resulted in passenger's deaths) is pilot fatigue casued by overscheduling and limited rest periods. Taking 'distractions' out the cockpit does nothing to address that problem and in fact probably makes it worse.

How many of you can sit still and focus on a single task for 8-9 hours straight? Hell for 1-2 hours straight? There is a whole lot of research that shows requiring such constant focus is very tiring and actually leads to more mistakes than when people are permited to take short breaks and focus on different things.

That's the implicit part of this attack. When confronted with a drunk woman/girl a man will just naturally be turned on and once turned on his behavior is completely understandable. After all a man's sex drive is paramount. Once activated it must be satisfied. It is a well known fact that men have no control over their penis.

Which is total CRAP.

There is NO EXCUSE for rape. A real man should be able to look a woman not automatically force himself on her. A real man has control of himself. A real man doesn't applaud someone being raped. He's tries to stop it and/or gets help.

The idea that a man's sex drive can not be controlled and that women are somehow responsible for a man's inablity to control himself is wrong.

Everything said here applies to Afghanistan where it seems Obama is holding off his decision on troop levels until the run-off election is held. We'll if that is any more 'fair' than the last excuse for an election that was held.

The number one complaint of iPhone users is AT&T's coverage. This is an easy fix for Apple. Open the iPhone up to other carriers ASAP. I very much doubt Apple will maintain it's exclusive relationship with AT&T once the current contract expires.

Any cacus member who fails to vote for cloture should be stripped of their commitee positions. They can vote however they want on the actual bill. But standing with Republicans, blocking their own party's key domestic initiative and helping Republicans cripple Obama's Presidency can not be tolerated.

Because about the only crime she go after the kids on is subornoring perjury by getting witnesses to recant their testimony. But that is a major stretch and most of the what she is asking for irrelevant to proving such a claim. More importantly, given the law and well documented history of police and prosecutors intimidating witnesses into false claims, the burden is on HER OFFICE to prove the statements given to the students are false. And even if they are, I doubt they were given under oath so a perjury charge won't fly anyway.

Anyway you look at it, the prosecutor is in the wrong. Rather than attacking student journalists she should be going after the cops and her own office.

Which surprisingly this article never mentions.

That was the real point Star Trek hit pop culture meltdown. When it was reduced to Vegas theme attraction.

They are playing up the public option so they can drop it later as part of the deal to get 'moderate' Dems not to filibuster the rest of the bill.

The question is whether it will be enough to get the magic 60 votes needed to sustain a cloture vote and if Reid and the leadership are willing to play hardball with Dems willing to undercut their own parties biggest domestic issue.