"Those of us who do not believe in Bush's war -- and that is a majority of the people in the country -- owe those who have died in Iraq more than respect and memory. We owe them righteous anger. We owe them outrage over a president so desperate and delusional that he is willing to pay with their blood to delay his day of political reckoning. We owe them our continued commitment to end this futile war.

For they are our comrades, too, even if we never shared a foxhole."

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Yes, yes, yes! My god, yes! Every word. My heart is broken and my face is full of tears. My god yes.

Weird, truly weird. Weird beyond all hope, beyond all reason. Weird in only the way things in America are weird. Theme-park weird. Americans are weird, twisted and dumb and weird. And they have no excuse for being twisted and dumb and weird. None. They're just intentionally dumb and weird.

That the weapons inspectors were still in Iraq, inspecting, when Georgie Porgie decided to bomb the hell out of it, and so they left to keep from getting bombed, is a fact that no Republican will ever acknowledge. It's just too much fun to lie. They're making it all up, just inventing the most exciting and just-so lies out of thin air, just because it suits their ideological driven revisionist history. That and they're pathological liars.

What happened to gay rights in the United States was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. I recall reading twenty years ago an article predicting that as soon as the Cold War was over, political and religious conservatives would turn their attention on homosexuals and homosexual rights. While they always mouthed "family values" as code words for anti-gay rights, the past ten years in particular has seen an organized, hyperventilated, well-financed attack on gay lives from the conservative punditocracy, the right-wing preachers and TV evangelists as well as the Republican political class, although we should not forget that Bill Clinton signed the first Defense of Marriage Act, hence throwing gay rights under the bus, as a sop to the conservatives. Many gay people worked very hard to get him elected, twice. And so it goes down through the ages. And in the face of it all, the religious hypocrises, the insults, the dishonor, the accusations, the trials, the ridicule, the hangings, the murder, the expulsions, the beatings, the knifeings, the assaults on our persons and on our spirit, gay people, as they always have, gay people endure, holding our affirming flame, insisting on our humanity, on our right to exist and to live in peace.

Paglia has dropped too much acid. This is insane drivel. After the first page and half of utter baloney, I had to stop reading it for fear my head would explode. Please, somebody make it stop!

And just today I was dreaming our long, dark night of the Camille was finally over at Salon, and now this! When is this woman's contract up? Somebody make it stop!

He's lying.

Could you get Olberman to read this piece on air? Great piece! Thanks Mr. Greenwald.

A number of years ago while driving on a long trip and trying to find something on the car radio to listen to, I inadvertently (because I couldn't get anything else) tuned in this whiny, baritone relating a story about a Muslim American father in California who had, according to the announcer, killed his daughter because she was becoming too Western. This was some time before 9/11. The reasoning, if it can be called that, that this announcer was using to explain the father's behavior, the way he was obviously using the facts of the story to appeal to people's prejudices, the way he was emphasizing certain words and playing upon assumptions about motivations, etc., I found to be utterly appalling and sickening. I found it obnoxious that someone could essentially preach and purposefully engender such ethnic animosity and hatred in what was obviously a biased presentation and a total leap of faith as to what the story signified. I'd never heard of Rush Limbaugh before that day.

The adults in this society have gone bat shit insane over this kind of behavior. Obviously this kind of behavior should not be tolerated, but to incarcerate children for it is just bat shit insane. We've got young men locked up in jail in this country for having consensual sex, both with females and other males. Why didn't they jail the girls for the consensual sex? How is it that a greater burden for this stuff falls on the males than on the females? Feminists? I'm mixing this up so let me return to this immediate issue. To engage the police, the court system, the prison system, to lock up teenagers because they act like the teenagers they are is psychotic. That parents and teachers need to teach these young boys about what is and is not appropriate behaviors and to establish some kind of system of retribution if they don't adhere to the lessons is perfectly understandable. That the adults may fail should not result in the JAILING of boys for being immature and rambunctious.

If Congress is ever to impeach Cheney/Bush, they'll have to impeach Lieberman first.

One is simply stunned at the magnitude of the Democratic sell out. Such an inane bunch of cowards.

I took the "Had Enough? Vote Democrat 2006" sticker off my car today. The political cowardice of the Democrats continues to be totally demoralizing. I don't know what the answer is. A purge? Emigration?