What a load of pointless twaddle. This sort of thing sometimes makes me feel embarrassed to be reading Salon.

The sun is big and hot. We get that.

It's also one of the most stable stars known, and its energy output is being monitored constantly. Its tiny variations are insufficient to explain global warming. If anything, the slight reduction of its output due to the current extended solar minimum is reducing or temporarily arresting global warming.

Sorry if this dose of reality disturbs your worldview.

I don't know how many times now you've said that a movie leaves you cold. If you are left cold, it implies you were cold to begin with. Maybe some nice fuzzy booties too?

...you go through all that and you're still willing to fly? You are truly a steely-eyed missile man.

Meanwhile, your fellow passengers are wondering what the hell is wrong with you as you zone out into oblivion.

Compared to that, believing that airline pilots are cheap with fresh air is pretty minor.

...as a matter of you minding your own business about how these people choose to make their movies.

Glock, you are truly an ignorant fool. Your so-called "majority" is nothing but a small corps of dupes who don't know what they're talking about. Research the statistics before you trot out your tough guy act again.

Obviously every single Minnesotan who voted for Franken loathes himself, and clearly by letting the vote count and the courts determine that he won the election, rather than surrendering to Coleman, Franken stole the election. Moron.

must refer to SC Governor Mark Sanford. He hasn't resigned yet, but she has some insider info on that.

I just flew from NY to Phoenix, and my plane did NOT crash. This is all the proof I need that flying is completely safe.

The fancy theology talked up by Eagleton doesn't mean a thing to the majority of so-called Christians. Most of them know nothing more of their religion than what they hear from their favorite TV preacher. They don't think about it much, and know nothing of its history or its relationship to other religions. For Eagleton to argue that "Ditchins" should base their criticisms on the long tradition of Christian intellectualism rather then the rudimentary cartoon-level version practiced by most Americans is absurd.

...I thought your story about the ditching was fair and reasonable. I also object to the dilution and overuse of the word "miracle", though I have less of a problem with calling those two pilots heroes.

Publishing self-congratulatory stories like this before the election is idiotic. It reeks of hubris and is utterly pointless. Save it for next week.

Maybe we can't edit our posts, but you can edit yours.

...it would be best to withhold the expressions of triumph and relief until Obama actually wins. The last two presidential elections taught me that.

No one would criticize a mother who wants to put her family first. No one would criticize a mother who apparently forgot she had a family when she accepted the position, and who, if she quits, will be doing so only because she has proven herself to be so blatantly inept. Of course not. How could anyone, anyone at all, criticize that?

So, John McCain, a guy who admits he knows little about the economy, has suddenly become so indispensable to fixing it that he can't be torn away from the deliberations for his presidential campaign. What a bogus, posturing ploy. I'm sure there are a whole lot of people on the job whose actual knowledge on the topic vastly exceeds his. If he, or Obama for that matter, are needed to vote on something, I'm sure they'll find the time. But the notion that McCain is making some contribution to the process is just a crock of crap.

Your version of the "real world" is a festering shithole, made so largely by people like you. You can keep it.

Let's see...history of life on Earth: roughly 3 billion years. Time that we've been paying attention: I don't know, maybe 400, at most? That's 0.00000013333 percent. And yet you expect to see new species, phyla, kingdoms, whatever, popping off all the time if evolution is real. Brilliant. And oh, the species change abruptly from one to another, so you might expect a marmot to give birth to a beaver at any moment. Your understanding of evolutionary theory is awe-inspiring.

Let me try to help you out. We think it's wrong to spy out and disclose personal e-mails...Palin's, Obama's, yours or mine. We also think it's wrong (and illegal) for someone holding public office to conduct public affairs via a private e-mail account which is not subject to scrutiny.

Mainly, we are pointing out the hypocrisy of the Republicans yammering about the awful crime which has been committed against one of their own when they reserve for the government (themselves) the "right" to break the law by reading the e-mail of American citizens without the need to make any specific case for the justification of this lawbreaking.

I realize this is somewhat subtle and doesn't easily break down into a simple good/bad dichotomy. I hope I haven't lost any more Democratic voters by writing this.

...that he's going out to murder a Democrat. Note that he didn't say Obama had lost "his" vote, just "a" vote.

I hope our vigilant security pros will be alert for the giveaway signs of WoW-based terrorists:

Suspicious numbers of Washington "tourists" wearing huge, elaborate shoulder-pieces which prevent them from raising their arms.

Large, hairy foreign nationals entering the country under names like Sirloin, Moomoomore, Moomoomagic, and Moontouched.

A falloff in the restaurant business as increasing numbers of visitors conjure their own croissants and glacier water.

Outbreaks of lascivious dancing on the Capitol steps by large groups of people in their underwear.

It's all there if you only look for it.