I dislike Jerome Corsi's mission intensely, but in fact Odinga did have gangs of supporters breaking heads. Everybody did. The last Kenyan election was a dreadful thing. Corsi was treated better than a Kenyan journalist would be, but it's still third-world behavior. Kenya treated him better because he's American, and because Kenya wants to become the high-tech center of Africa.

So Corsi did a stupid thing totally unrelated to his anti-Obama mission and got a gratifying kick in the pants. But John Krakauer or Sebastian Junger or even Katie Couric would have gotten the same kick.

What the heck does "Tie goes to the runner" mean?

What does a U.S. Senator have to do with state corporation law?

That's right, nothing. Obama citing Delaware isn't relevant to Biden.

"It will deodorize the room. It has special dirt-repelling, extremely advanced chemicals layered on the ceramics. They all have a remote-control panel next to the toilet so that you can adjust the heat. All the seats are heated; that's just standard."

And how does it get your asshole dry after soaking it?

Last I noticed, Salon stock is still in the toilet. Maybe another approach is called for to raise this site's value.

Not Pittsburgh.

... who would "never to the marriage of true minds admit impediment."

It's not every son who enters his father's profession. And you can hold your head up proudly next to him, even if Salon doesn't issue cool embossed press passes.

Peace and strength to you in this tumultuous time.

"Separate but equal" is not equal.

Maybe the Radio Right is overdue for an eclipse anyway. It would rouse the ranters' crankcase base if the Fairness Doctrine were reimposed, and the ranters wouldn't have to explain their own growing irrelevance--it would be the god-damn-America(n) gummint's fault. And if the Fairness Doctrine remains dead, they can credit their own disingenuous campaign for scaring away the boogeyman. Either way, they and their sympathizers win.

I don't understand why a Democratic staff aide would want to be anonymous for stating that the Republicans were obstructionists. If Democrats are being this timid, don't quote them anonymously.

What the hell are you talking about?

The only bad thing about this appointment is that it rules out Chu as the President's Science Advisor.

To see Ruppel and Dickens's two sessions, go to the Tuesday poster session at http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08&part=U23D and the speaker session Wednesday at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/fm08-sessions/fm08_U34A.html. This is not apocalyptic stuff, just bricks-in-the-wall-of-science research, none of which is peer-reviewed. Read the science for yourself.

Obama said that he had not spoken with Blagojevich. Emmanuel said he did no negotiating with Blagojevich. That means that Emmanuel had a channel open and nothing more.

What "legitimate questions" are left to ask, knowing these plain facts?

Thanks for the vocabulary workout.

It had to be his dark skin. Couldn't possibly be his intelligence, levelheadedness or poise. It couldn't be that he was the only grownup in the race.

Bobby Rush didn't pick Burris. Where does that leave you?

She's good at digesting the science and making it accessible.

We like a product called Veat at our house, a soy "meat" with a seaweed coating: see www.veat.com.

We aren't doing the salmon much good, it's true. Farmed salmon is genetically weak and prone to disease, and it pollutes the land and water. And farming salmon takes the pressure off the people ruining the rivers. But wild salmon from Alaska is still a sustainable fishery, and you ought to enjoy some.

Here's the original Stanford press release:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/manvleaf-010709.html

And here's the abstract of the poster presented at the meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/8w7cto

Stop repeating derivative blog posts--that only degrades the message.

Impeachment has nothing to do with the criminal justice system; it's the constitution's way of getting sleazeballs out of office. There are no guarantees of judicial fairness in an impeachment trial. It's a kangaroo court to some. I think of it more like an intervention.

Impeachment triggers a political trial in which the punishment is loss of office, not a criminal trial in which the punishment is prison and fines. It's about getting the bad man out of a position to do more harm, and like a civil trial, judgment is rendered based on a preponderance of evidence, not absence of reasonable doubt. It's like an intervention among friends, not a trial by jury.

This is a tempest in a teapot, people. Why should Howard Dean reschedule a trip to Samoa to stand on a stage for five minutes? And you know the press would peck at everybody there with just the sort of pitiful high-school-clique questions we're seeing here. All this chatter proves to me that Dean and Obama did the right thing.

In the meantime, Howard Dean will not disappear or be forgotten. Let's keep our eyes on him as well as the new guy what's his face.

Kay Ryan's partner Carol Adair died just a few days ago.

How often has anything the Bush adminstration said ever been true?

After Drudge, The Onion is next, and then the TV comedy shows and finally the supermarket tabloids will put the paranoid Right in its proper role: national laughingstock.

All this posturing and opining means nothing. Any investigations will be done by the Justice Department, and given Obama's signals so far I don't expect him to lift a finger against his Attorney General, but stand firmly behind him. If the Geneva Convention is upheld on his first day in office, I expect the Constitution to be upheld on subsequent days.

Thanks for the link to a wonderful piece of writing.