Glenn is noble and principled and has the fearless quality of the badger from the animal kingdom that is admirable, which democratic party representatives might do well to emulate every now and then. I recall watching a film on the nature channel once where a bear backed a badger into a corner. 500 pounds to 25 and after about 10 minutes 500 backed down......... But it's not all peaches and cream.

Glenn is the Clint Eastwood character from PALE RIDER. The preacher-gunman who joins a camp of miners against the powerful, bullying, and corrupt big shots. In one scene, a miner tells Clint about a boulder in the stream and how he has an understanding with it---"I'm going to do it in, or it's going to do me in." He sledgehammers on it for a while each day anticipating a huge gold nugget underneath "that's been there since the beginning of time", if he can just crack the rock apart. Sure enough, with Clint hammering alongside, the boulder eventually shatters and indeed there is a chunk of gold that pays off the entire years debt in town plus profit.

In another scene the small band of miners take a vote on whether or not to fight. Obvious good points are made on both sides. They vote to fight and sure enough the lawless powers that be are defeated, with Clint gunning down the hired "deputies" of the big shot in the concluding scene. But that's all in the movies. When they took the vote, one of them couldn't stand up and say--"Hey, we're in the movies and we're the good guys, if we fight everything will go our way for sure."

And thus the problem. When Glenn sledges away at the boulder, it's our side as often as not that is taking the impacts. That's okay, we don't have to be homers full-time. We don't need homer commentators full-time. Self criticism is important. But I wonder sometimes if he roots for us to lose to validate his theory. Or if he is perpetuating the notion that both sides are one big glob with our side merely the enablers. It's not one glob and it's not that simple.

At some point we have to circle the rock and hammer in unison at one target. That time is getting near. The stakes are too high. A Congressional gunfight to the death over Neocon-Incorporated isn't going to happen, and it's useless to speculate what the short or long term results would be if it did. We must now allow the right wing to collapse from it's own stench. Not spend time on another conviction and pardon. Get the Whitehouse. Increase House and Senate majorities. Even then, if all we get out of it is a couple Supreme appointments more to our liking and just somewhat better economic, health care, and Iraq-Iran policy, that's better than nothing or the alternative.

Decide a game on that crap in the last seconds. The refs need to stay on top of which team has timeouts left in that situation and if a player turns to a ref and calls a timeout despite not having any left, the ref should just look back at him. It will dawn on the player he better continue playing.

Not a game. Deciding a championship on that crap.

Now that you mention it the Fab-5 were the butt of quite a bit of racist hogwash. Not the technical though.

Okay. I'll stop by Joseph-Beth today and pick up your books if they got them.

The halftime music should be The Stones every year until they literally die on stage.

That McCain gets Rudy's one delegate?

Has no shot. He's Dole The Second.

Was pretty good.

But we saw The Stones at Churchill Downs in Sept. 2006 and they were pretty damn good that night. Beat the hell out of the backup anyhow---Alice Cooper.

Between Keith and Alice is on bootleg.

For practicality's and reality's sake. She won't when she's the big dog.

Hillary is my God.

If Obama is not up for that brutal war with Hillary over Edwards voters, he's unfit for the fight in November.

Is a bit abrasive, but he has a point. If he crosses the line though, I'll spank him.

Don't worry sweetheart. It's going to be Hillary. And the republicans cannot function with a Clinton in their face.

But we will if we have to.

A Hillary-Obama ticket is my prayer.

The republican House impeached Bill.........and that deteriorated into a new Speaker of the House once a week for about a month.

The attempted GOP congressional government shutdown-showdown. It folded.

With Hillary they ain't even gonna have the majority.

Hillary versus old man McCain is Bill versus old man Dole. It's a TOTAL mismatch.

John's in the ballpark where incoherence can start rearing it's ugly head.

Staggering around saying--"Troops, flag, bible, guns."

On his show after Clinton's grand jury testimony. He was muttering and stuttering. Then hollering. Then muttering.

The republicans nominate someone so damn old (Reagan, Dole, McCain) that if they win the subordinates can run amok, or someone so stupid that the subordinates can run amok--Dubya.

That's the strategy. Have someone on top that's napping, with memory problems, or just plain dumb.

And then we get stuff like Iran-Contra or Iraq.

Is really nothing more than a jihad against intellectuality.