So a breeder couldn't crowd the world with more unneeded offspring. Boo hoo. Hey, 300 million people in the US! Six billion in the world. We're fouling the planet with too many people.

If you need a child so damn badly, do the environment and the tens of millions of discarded children in the world a favor and adopt!

Losing a pregnancy is depressing whether it was a miscarriage or abortion, whether you "brought it on yourself" or whether the US population is 300 million. Anyone who has been through it knows this is true.

I know from experience that's false.

It's Nall, not Nash. You have it right the 1st time, but the 2nd and 3rd you have Nash.

The reason we know the 2000 election was stolen was because of Manjoo and Palast and tiny handful of others who had actual, concrete proof, that the election had been fraudulent. Manjoo was one of the first to write about Deibold and other manufacturers, when you were still carping about Kate Harris.

A curious thing occurred when investigative journalists went to find a rape camps. 3,000 women are being raped at a camp screamed the headlines. When the journalists got closer, the number changed to 300 in that valley. When the got to the valley, they heard that 30 women in one village were raped. When the got to the village, they discovered that three women had been raped. Three out of the reported three thousand rapes were real. How many died because of that lie?

Truly the first casualty of war is the truth. The Bosnian Rape story came out of the same PR firm that was hired by the Kuwaiti government and invented the lie about incubator babies being tossed on the floor by Iraqi soldiers who were stealing the incubators.

Yes, the war was horrible, and many atrocities were committed, BY ALL SIDES. Stop using lies to justify more lies.

Sadly, Iraqi women were better off under Ba'athist Iraqi than they are today. Today in Iraq, women live under Sharia, killed if they try and work, tortured and raped if they belong to the wrong sect, with no access to health care, and watching their loved ones die around them. But at least they aren't occasionally being raped by Hussein's thugs.

Maybe a little perspective's in order.

Blue Dogs increased their count to almost 45 seats, so it's not like the Conservative wing of the Dems weakened. I agree with the other poster that this was not a victory for liberalism. That, however, doesn't mean that the center can shaft the left, as they have done for the past 18 years. Hopefully, both sides have learned they need one another, and that the left will finally get something more than a few crumbs.

The failure in Iraq was not a failure of ideology per se, but of execution. It would be like saying, since a bottle rocket can't reach the moon, manned space flight is impossible. Neoconservatism probably could achieve its objectives, if it hadn't had tried to do so on the cheap and executed the Iraqi occupation so incompetently. The Neocons are right to blame Rumsfeld.

None of which is to say that neoconservatism is morally correct. Although spreading democracy is a laudable goal, it is also incompatible with the best interests of the United States (assuming one identifies the interests of the United States with the ruling class and not the people of the country in general--which they do). America's business interests are best served by compliant governments around the world which have lax consumer protection, environment and labor standards. True democracies won't put up with such things. When push comes to shove, American interests will always win out over the spread of democracy.

I wonder, actually, if neoconservatism ever actually had real influence in Washington, and wasn't simply a cover for other designs: displaying American might after 9/11, putting our thumb over the world's oil spigot (not for immediate monetary gain, but to increase costs for rival economies--we can better absorb higher oil prices, China cannot) and setting out a buffet for politically connected friends to gorge themselves on the American treasury. Plus, now we have a real threat to replace the USSR. One which will last for generations. We've killed well over a million Iraqis since 1990. That won't be forgotten soon. The military-industrial-political complex is saved, for generations.

Anyone who expects the Dems to do anything progressive in this Congress is living in a dream world, and will have a very rude awakening. The best you can hope for is some investigations and the curbing of the worst GOP excesses. Even if they had veto proof majorities, they are as thoroughly in the pockets of big money as the GOP.

The drug works by preventing the muscle walls in the Vas Deferens from contracting, which means that spem will not be ejaculated. Neither the fluid from the seminal vesicle nor from the prostate move through the Vas Deferens. They, like the Vas Deferens, empty into the ejaculatory canal.

Therefore, unless the mechanism has been incorrectly explained to us in articles, and I'm not ruling that out, there will be no dry ejaculation. It will be the messy kind. As described, it sounds like a temporary, chemical vasectomy.

This would a good thing, not merely because of psychological reasons. Studies show that ejaculating 2 out of three days (roughly 20 times a month) significantly lowers the risk of prostate cancer, one of the most common cancers in men.

Though I admit, it would be nice no to have to clean up after.

When Ehud Barak offered the entire West Bank, including parts of Jerusalem to Yassir Arafat,

That never happened. It's propaganda. The truth is that the best deal the Palestinians were offered was 80% of their post-'48 territory, split up into dozens of little cantons. In between would be Israel security roads. Israel still controlled the water, access to other cantons, and the military. It was little more than a codification of what the Palestinians already had.