This would have been the song sung by right-wing pundits during the previous administration.

It's a catchy tune, too. The refrain goes something like: "We are at war. Wishing for misfortune to fall on us during wartime is treason."

How long before a Drake-inspired psychopath follows through on this "biblical mandate?"

Organized religion provides a haven for the mentally unstable. It also apparently provides cover for traitors.

People with kids have far more hostility and aggressive anger towards those who choose not to bear children. Most of their anger seems to stem from the fact that they, by their own admission, no longer have the free time to think, much less do anything fun like they did when they were single. Couples who choose not to have children can go on having child-free date nights, going to bars with friends, staying up late nights, sleeping in late mornings, quiet leisurely dinners, peaceful evenings, martinis by the fireplace... not to mention, we get to enjoy all our income, and spend it as efficiently or wastefully as we choose, rather than toss it away on overpriced children's clothing that will be worn for 6 months and then donated to charity or plunge it into health care expenses for always-sick children.

The fact is, having a kid creates additional responsibility in your life, which requires more work and effort to effectively manage. Lynn Harris and the Entitled Mother Brigade simply want this to be untrue; they want motherhood to be easy, without inglorious hard-work; they want it to be nothing but sunshine and adulation from others. They are not alone in this selfish desire: perhaps the majority of middle-class parents resent the fact that having a kid takes more than not having one. Typical of Americans of a certain economic strata, they want to have it all without paying for anything.

When you chose to have your child(ren), you chose to also accept the hardships that comes from it. One of those hardships is that when you and your brood intrude on others, some may take offense and express it. You do not deserve a special right to annoy, nor do you deserve to take up more space than necessary, just because you managed to do a most unremarkable thing, a thing that every animal on earth is capable of doing, just like you did, without thought or planning.

A scrappy quitter? A folksy woman who wears designer clothing? The cognitive dissonance exuded by Sarah Palin seems to have an amazing and awesome hypnotic effect on some women, enough that ordinarily perceptive women writers have a shadow over their eyes, blinded perhaps by hormones and similar genitalia. Or as Fortini imagines, a lack of fairy tales to inspire them.

Men are entranced by Palin's looks, while women are enchanted by her fairy tale story. Well, at least the men are fixated on reality. If women find something appealing in Palin's patchwork of lies, narcissism, and demagoguery, then I fear that the opinion many misogynists have of the female intellect may be accurate.

I don't know. Why is it offensive to women when magazines publish a series of articles that analyze women based solely on their physical attributes?

Speaking of which... where is Salon's Sex Woman Living 2009 series?

At long last, Heather, have you lost all semblance of dignity?

So a low-talent, uncritical Salon writer finds enjoyment in a ghost-written, fact-challenged, cliche-ridden "memoir." I'd think this was satire if the author had not amply demonstrated her lack of intellect and talent in oh so many other offerings. Need proof that some women don't think beyond their genitalia? Sandra provides!

But I never learned to laugh and vomit at the same time.

If you are just at this time noticing that John Ziegler is a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac who makes no attempt toward objectivity or even professionalism, then you have been asleep, or perhaps in the dark about the man who had his own talk radio show, wrote a book called "The Death of Free Speech," disrupted OJ book signings, pimped the Nick Berg beheading video, and credits himself with single-handedly dooming John Kerry's Presidential ambitions. Sometimes I think he's a performance artist engaging in a satirical self-parody. But this is just to soften the blow of the dark realization that, in America, buffoons like John Ziegler get taken seriously.

The United States, which is commonly regarded by its own Christian-majority population as a "Christian nation," makes war in the name of God. The United States military deliberately targets civilian areas and activities in its goal to eliminate its non-Christian enemies. The government utilizes Christian teachings on "just war" to justify its aggression. Millions have been murdered in the name of God by US soldiers who are prayed for, cheered on and comforted by Christian clergy and laity.

This is the equivalent to "Islamic terrorism." This is in fact why lesser-equipped, non-Christian nations have to resort to terrorism in order to seek some sick "balance" of war.

On the inside, you don't see it that way. You see the US defending its "interests." You don't notice how often the "interests" of the US manage to align against the "interests" of non-Christian nations. You fail to notice that when the "interests" of a Christian nation don't match those of the US, the result is not relentless aerial bombardment but rather economic pressure, political influence, or at worst a military coup. Non-combatants may perish in a military coup, but rarely on the scale of a single campaign of bombardment.

So, yes, there is a "Christian" equivalent to "Muslim terrorism." It's just high-tech, well-funded, and has better PR management.

...will cause the Internet to grind to a halt.