Bring back the direct links to comments. I do not like having to click back through articles I've already read to see if new comments have been added. It's a waste.

Oh, and count me as one of the people who do not like the new look. Very cluttered, difficult to distinquished new material from old etc etc.

You're making the mistake so many TV news networks are making. Adding too much to the screen. There is a LOT to be said for simplicity. With the old site I could pop in, immediately see what's new or if new comments had been added and click to them. I can't do that now.

And we have also been noting, time and again, that wages remain flat to declining for most people. How many people here have seen a raise in that last two years? For those who have, did that raise keep up with inflation?

Unless something radical changes we are looking at a repeat of the last eight years. GDP will grow, the finacial sector will report record profits and the top 5% will will make gobs of money. The rest of us will fall further and further behind.

There is a lot of fear out there that current uptick in the economy is not sustainable and we are looking at a double-dip in the next 3-6 months back into recession land.

My company has seen a sales improvement and we should be hiring more people to keep up with demand. But management is holding off because they don't think the growth in sales will continue past the 4th quarter and they don't want to be caught with excess capacity.

The problem is, I don't think they are wrong. The commercial realesatate market is collapsing. Banks are continuing to tighten credit. Credit card defaults are way up (and many banks securitized credit card debt the same way they securitized mortages so that will ripple out). And perversely enough, the contineud unemployment market keeps feeding all those cycles.

The stimulus may have prevented another Great Depression but so far it hasn't stopped the long recession or reversed the course for anyone other than the banking/financial sectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.