Great article... and I will "third" the post about Everyday Food Magazine. It is filled with great, easy recipes that are totally seasonal. As a fanatic of the Hollywood Farmers Market for several years until I moved to New York and discovered the Green Market, this was my bible for simplicity in cooking and/or merely "preparing" locally grown, sustainable foods. And I've influenced many friends to do likewise.

I would love to see an Apple in the Oval Office... Epic fail would be a Windows machine. Friends don't let friends do Windows.

If one had read only the letters in response to this article, and not the article in question, one would wonder if Barack Obama had actually won the election, and on what issues.

Joan Walsh quite clearly stated the case, which is supported by anyone credible in economic theory. The facts are incontrovertible. Tax cuts don't work. If they did then we wouldn't be where we are now. At the end of the train wreck that is now what we know to be a unsustainable consumer economy based on foreign-financed debt.

Unfortunately it seems that Ms. Walsh doused her column with troll spray, because it has certainly attracted the worst of this element today. Memo to all of you: get over it, or get lost. We don't have to be starry-eyed Obama fans to acknowledge that the alternative was John McCain, and we all know how that went. Obama won... legitimately.

I agree with Ms. Walsh that the problem is the message, which Thom Hartmann also articulated on his show earlier today. President Obama needs to stop talking to us (because we already "get it"), and communicate it to the country at large.

The Republican trolls in the house and senate never said anything about the economy or the worst kind of deficit spending that got us into this situation in the first place. They need to be effectively put in their place while the program is being effectively communicated to the American people.

The Bronx... As a recent California transplant, I heartily recommend the Bronx... it's spacious, quixotically charming without the pretense, totally accessible to Manhattan by train, (or by car, if that's your preference), and you get 1920s-plus charm with hardwood floors, full kitchen(s), and more... for much less. Think outside the popular boroughs... and think inside the Bronx.

Reading this article reminded me of an idea I thought of a few years ago while reading about textile closures in North Carolina in the Wall Street Journal a few years ago. Why don't we offer some sort of mechanism that allows employee buyouts of these troubled firms and allow them to continue as locally-owned interests, rather than by nameless, faceless corporations seeking obscene profits? And leveraged buyouts, etc.

That would be change that we could believe in.

This is absurd. Why is this drivel being paraded before us as though it a) deserves equal weight... b) is legitimate in its claims... and c) is not already included here (as others have pointed out), by Camille Paglia. Even more offensive is its proximity in time to the piece by David Horowitz.

Salon readers (and especially subscribers) deserve better than this.

It smells like springtime for Turdblossom. How refreshing it is to have the (leftover) excrement from the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal (black and white, and read all over corporate boardrooms across America) digitally ditto-headed here on Salon! It's not, really, but if I correctly digest contemporary "conservative" theory of reality denial and rote, repetitive talking points, I just may believe that this is true.

Down is up, left is wrong, right is right... and the ends justify the means... lie, obfuscate, reinterpret, restate. Whatever's good for the project.

If transparency really is the new black, or the new "change" is it may be, we should be afforded the identity of this "undercover" wingnut. Otherwise, this brand Rove-ian colon cancer doesn't belong here.

Karl Rove is doing just fine writing for the Wall Street Journal. He and his minions don't need our money or our time (and that includes premium real estate in Salon's backyard). We need so much more here.

So, if you'll excuse me, I have to go now. And flush.

And speaking from the platform of a newly-formed "security consulting" firm is a great way to start marketing and PR for said business.

While I really appreciated Ms. Walsh's perspective on the really bad Kristol, (and we're not referring to knock-off champagne here), I really wanted to use this forum to highlight Salon's equivalent of rewarding bad behavior, by similarly enabling the likes of Camille Paglia, wingnut "Glennallen Walken" (whatever), and the equally reprehensible Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. The "he said/she said" approach to "equal weight" arguments is so F-N tired, outdated, and completely belies the notion that there was an election.. and they LOST. Can we please start engaging the concept of reality here? We're in dire straits here, and none of this is helping.

But then I started reading the letters... that actually defend the likes of Kristol... and I thought riding the New York subway was a crazy train. And I wonder... is there a reality show (read "check" for the rest of us? "I'm A Real Person with Critical Thinking Skills... Get Me Out of Here."