1. When the corporation you work for mentions "downsizing," they're just kidding. Your job is 100% safe. Even if Corporate lays off some of the "dead wood" around there, they would never dream of laying off a good Company Man like yourself.

2. The stock market is getting ready to go through the roof, so put everything you've got into stocks, and for God's sake, whatever you do, don't sell the stocks you already own. Only a fool sells at the bottom.

3. Put your right thumb about an inch from the tip of your right index finger: that's how close the health insurance companies are from getting everybody's medical records online. Once that happens, the cost of healthcare coverage will drop like a rock. Bush even said so in one of the 2004 Presidential debates.

4. Whoa! Did I say you could move your thumb away from your index finger? I don't think so! Re-assume that position and look again: that's how close we are to achieving peace, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but throughout the Middle East. Again, only a fool (or a coward) would urge us to pull out when we're that close to victory.

I could go on and on, but that oughta hold you until the election in November. Not that it matters. You're all gonna vote Republican anyway, ya buncha lunatics!

You guys crack me up!

McClellan's narrative is the same load of crap that we've gotten from every other former Bush Administration "whistle-blower": "George W. Bush is a good Christian man who was just mislead by 'certain people' who were pushing their own agendas. Every time [I] (insert author's/whistleblower's name) tried to warn him, every time [I] tried to set him straight, 'certain people' prevented me from doing so."

By pushing this tired, old lie, McClellan continues to enable Bush's pathology, while crying all the way to the bank.

Karl Rove has been proven right: Valerie Plame WAS "fair game." And he knew she was fair game because he knew that nobody would stand up to Bush and Cheney--and they never will.

You're female and you're convinced you have prostate cancer.

But seriously, folks, the other side of this coin that greatly intrigues me is how physicians seem to follow trends in diagnoses--to the point where new epidemics appear to be springing up every few years.

I'm thinking about disorders such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable-bowel syndrome, multiple-personality disorder, etc. I don't mean to imply that these diseases and their diagnoses aren't real. I just find it interesting that one condition will spike in the population, then gradually fade out, only to be replaced by another condition.

I have strong empathy for hypochondriacs. I think they believe that good health is a gift that they don't deserve.

What was Jesse Ventura's opinion of the war in Iraq when Bush first started it?

Which candidate for POTUS did JV support in 2004?

Did JV publically defend the Dixie Chicks when they were excoriated for publically criticizing The Current Occupant?

I really don't know the answers to the above questions, and I really am curious.

Most people who are afraid to fly are afraid that the plane is going to crash, and they're going to die.

I'm afraid to fly because I'm afraid that the plane is going to get stuck sitting on the runway for 11 hours, and I'll have to listen to an endless loop of lies from the flight crew about how the delay "couldn't be avoided," but that we'll be taking off "any minute now." To me, that would be a fate worse than death.

Our choice (and it has been our choice for awhile now) is between the Democrats, who believe that the Bushies are destroying this country, and the Republicans, who believe that 10-year-old girls who play Little League baseball are destroying this country.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

My father, a Southern-but-WASP-ish gentleman who was probably around 40 when "Fernando" was released, heard that song when it first came out and became an instant, committed ABBA fan, remaining one for the rest of his life (He died about 5 years ago).

In 1999, I was listening to G. Gordon Liddy's radio show one day(not because I like his politics), and he started playing bits of ABBA songs, and telling about how he had discovered ABBA while he was in prison, and about how listening to the band's records there had lifted his spirits. It was touching.

I've always been amused and intrigued by how many ABBA fans are older white guys. I don't mean to come off as patronizing towards older white guys, or towards the band itself. I'm an ABBA fan now. But I wasn't when I was a teenager, back in the 70s. Back then, they were "Top 40," and you couldn't be cool and like Top 40 at the same time.

I wouldn't call ABBA "cheesy." They were a class act, and they cut some really beautiful tracks.

Millions of old white guys can't be wrong.

This whole story smells a little "fishy" to me.

In a subtle bow to James Carville and the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign, the McCain campaign today announced their new slogan: "It's the 5 years he spent as a POW 40 years ago, Stupid!"

A McCain Presidency wouldn't be four more years of George W. Bush. It would be four more years of Dick Cheney.

Also, when GWB met Carla Bruni, didn't he, in his usual fashion when meeting a woman he's never met before, practically stick his tongue down her throat while simultaneously groping her ass? And wasn't his wife, Pickles standing right there? And isn't that all on tape?

We're all familiar with the dangerous pathologies of Bush, Cheney, McCain, et al. The repubs are panicking because the only "dangerous pathology" they can pin on Obama is that he's African-American. That's not going to fly, though. Not this year.