I have posted a few anonymous things here, and I appreciate the capability. But I suppose professional provocateurs could subscribe and misuse it, so the problem of shit-stirring would not end. Perhaps enable/disable anonymous posting in different parts of Salon?

Anonymity is not allowed on the Well, and the place has thrived in its way for more than 20 years. As we say there, "tools, not rules." Hiding and killing posts is a pretty rare thing there.

The key thing is to avoid having Salon staff spend too much time manually sorting and editing posts.

And I'm glad to see others calling for user-based filtering. There are some people who just get our goat, and it helps keep things tolerable if we can just not see them. The worst problem with bozofiltering is that you still see other people's responses to the person you bozo. I can live with that.

Stop repeating yourself in every thread.

This isn't my idea (Wagner James Au came up with it) but it's worth repeating: Obama is a Hawaiian, raised in its cultural environment of cooperation and harmony, like that of an extended family (ohana). I hope he brings out that angle at some point in the campaign because everybody loves Hawaii.

Since there's no transcript, I'll just say what I think: Clinton, Obama and McCain have already laid out their responses, all of them calling for concrete steps toward free elections before we put down the embargo. So I don't see that there will be any significant effect in the election. The Florida Cubans won't go Democratic anyway, but no one has alienated them either.

This isn't about sex. You really ought to read the story; it's at

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html

It's about a loose-cannon lobbyist hanging out too much with the senator, then telling her fellow lobbyists that she has dibs on him. The senator is oblivious, doesn't see a problem, but his staff does and carries out a scenario right out of the movies, with confrontations in the train station and stuff, to drive her away.

It's not about sex. Switch the gender to male and see how it looks.

The story shows that McCain has trouble keeping things on the up and up; he's too sure of his own virtue. That is exactly GWB's same flaw.

Jonathan Alter certainly has a swelled head:

"When I floated this idea of her quitting, Hillary aides scoffed that it would never happen. Their Pollyanna-ish assessment of the race offered a glimpse inside the bunker."

No, it couldn't be that they thought I was presumptuous!

More like a glimpse inside Alter's bunker.

I keep thinking that Obama's response must be clever political jujitsu. As someone above mentioned, the leak to Drudge could be just a troll, but it's ostensibly from the Clinton camp. He can't attack Drudge because nobody cares; he'd just get laughed at and called a whiner. He can't attack a vast right-wing conspiracy, even if that's who did it, because that's risible too.

The only party he can attack is Clinton, whether it was her fault or not, and she was caught flatfooted. She didn't have to be, but she was. If she'd responded properly ("Consider that leaker fired"), both Democrats would be undamaged and the Republican opposition would be on notice that Obama doesn't take any shit. THAT message has been sent. The extra point for Obama's campaign is that once again, Clinton looks bad. It's all fair politics.

"If you are acting like the nominee -- if you are, essentially, declaring the race over -- you ought to be able to win the contests that are coming up," Howard Wolfson told reporters during the call (which lasted more than an hour; I hung up about 65 minutes in, after Wolfson admitted he had accidentally disconnected himself and asked whether he had missed anything).

Is this tactic--a multiple-hour conference call to harangue a minor rhetorical point--part of a scheme to keep writers on the line until deadline, hoping they'll just post the Clinton talking points? Anyway, thanks for reporting Wolfson's tiny, but telling bit of incompetence.

not when it only means a gain of about 15 delegates for Clinton. Looks like the near-tie will continue, with Obama still definitely in the lead.

On to Pennsylvania, I guess.

You seem to be under the impression that Obama and Clinton are running against each other for president. Those numbers don't say anything about how either Democrat will do against McCain.

After Michigan and Florida's Democratic Party leaders--the ones who blew this thing--have submitted resignations and been replaced, then their successors should stage a revote. That's the solution with the most justice.

He never became a general, for instance. His military experience is only a litle more relevant than Hillary Clinton's White House experience. If being shot at was all it took, every former buck private would be in the Joint Chiefs.

"In the top right-hand corner of Salon's home page today you'll find a new feature, 5 Things. We're hoping you'll grow to find it indispensable."

I'm hoping you'll grow up. This strikes me as pretty pitiful.

Those bums.

Reaching out to enemies like that.

The DNC didn't sanction Michigan's primary, it sanctioned it.

This whole thing is irrelevant, because cloning will never compete with feedlots and pastures when it comes to raising meat.

Cloning is only of interest for increasing breeding stock. You might as well poll people about eating Kentucky Derby winners. Cloned animals are too precious to eat.

I also suspect that this is a mammals/big-brown-eyes issue. What would a poll say about eating cloned bluefin tuna, or lobsters, or truffles? Not to mention that the majority of plants you buy in the nursery are cloned (tissue culture is how nursery stock is built up).

If you're making videos for current.com, why do you show them here? Please just write something instead.