Americans are already so idiotically crazy about germs that they spread antiseptic, antibacterial cleaning fluids all over their damn houses, breeding super-bugs in the process. I would not have expected Salon to be dumb enough to perpetuate this nonsense.

When I piss somewhere disgusting, like a train station bathroom, I just want to get out as quickly as possible. My dick *is* clean, thank you very much, and I don't touch anything else while I'm in there.

And the reason people wash hands after food preparation is that they have likely touched *raw* meat, which can be dangerous, and you absolutely need to wash then. So yes, washing after cooking makes more sense than washing after pissing.

Why should the "medical establishment" have any opinion on something that is not a medical problem!

For reporters too lazy to type.

that he actually is so stupid that he doesn't even realize that she is supposed to be partisan, and he isn't ?

Mukasey should not be dismissed out of hand for being a Conservative. He should be dismissed out of hand if he is in favor of torture. He should be dismissed out of hand of he is in favor of keeping Guantanamo open. He should be dismissed out of hand for abusing the material witness law.

In pretty much any country in western Europe they would have a different term for them - conservative.

They are the filthy detritus dredged up from them bottom of the evolutionary barrel. They have not one iota of real morality, just an endless filthy slick of snake-oil religion and rampant hypocrisy.

Well, I feel a little better now ;-)

This is news?

It is redundant, after all ...

is that her books are crap. I mean, come on, she gets the Nobel before Roth or Pynchon or Vargas Llosa? Give me a break.

She wins ahead of Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Haruki Murakami, Les Murray, Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, Milan Kundera, Don DeLillo, Peter Carey, Alice Munro, Carlos Fuentes, Harry Mulisch, Chinua Achebe, Cormac McCarthy, David Malouf, Mario Vargas Llosa, Umberto Eco ...

Based on what? One good book (The Grass is Singing), and a whole boatload of self-indulgent twaddle and bad science fiction?

Catherine learned a new word - wank! Let's all have a little giggle, shall we? It's a dirty word! And it's something that nasty men do!

... and Buster picks Detroit. Seems that there's quite a bit of the old man in the kid ;-)

I've been critical of Farhad in the past, but this is the kind of muckraking that we need. Well done.

BTW, who's wiring is that? It's even worse than the mess in my basement ...

And that's even though I'm a New Yorker, a Mets fan. I just can't stand the thought of that bunch of self-righteous prigs from Colorado winning anything.

Unfortunately, it's becoming more and more clear that the *only* thing that they stand for is getting elected. When power in and of itself is the only goal of the political class, democracy becomes a meaningless charade.

Thank you, Bill Maher, for being a voice of sanity.

It's not trees that feed wildfires, it's brush.

such assholes?

Oh dear ...

I can't imagine going down on my wife and whispering "I love your vajayjay" ... I think 'cunt' works just fine, thanks.

use less oil than Easterners because you don't have winter over there, so don't get too self-righteous about it. It sure as hell isn't that you drive less.

But yes, the price of oil is too low, particularly gasoline. I'd be wary of letting the price of heating oil get too high, that causes big problems in particular for the elderly poor.

A military dictator does exactly what you'd expect a military dictator to do, and he's "undermining democracy"? What fucking democracy?

See, if only Saddam had been smart, he'd just have beaten up lawyers. Then he'd have been fine.

I don't think so, not that vile little jerkoff.

it's a cult. Would you vote for a Scientologist? This whole thing is ridiculous - we have historical evidence of the crooks and frauds who invented this fake religion, so why go along and pretend that it's anything other than what it is?

I'm an atheist too, and while I think that it is a pretty fine line between a religion and a cult, there *is* a line, and I don't want it crossed by someone who wants to be President. So no, I absolutely would not be willing to accept a Scientologist, or a Rastafarian for that matter. And that goes double for Mormons, with their disgraceful history of massacres, kidnapping of Indian children, and death squads.

would that be any worse? Does it really matter which imaginary being you believe in? At least belief in the existence of Satan has some historical context, beyond some power mad nutcase who made some shit up less then two hundred years ago.

I can kind of understand people believing in religions that have been around for millennia, as they (wrongly) assume that there must be a good reason for it to last that long. But when we have all the historical facts, it's just downright stupid.

Eighteen and nineteen year olds are not "children". Why are they even included in the survey?

perhaps those miscarriages were due to distress caused by having an idiot (you) in the family?

As far as I'm concerned, it's a completely secular holiday when you buy gifts for friends and family. The fact that it happens to coincide with the "holy day" of some idiotic cult has no relevance to me at all. So, I really don't have a problem with Huckabee's ad. If he is sending subliminal messages to fellow cult members, big deal. No-one with any sense is going to vote for the man anyway, and someone has to pick up the moron vote.

that Amanda Eyre Ward is rich enough to do whatever the fuck she wants to do.

That was the point, right ?