sweetheart-mine

nice birthday! and nice pic -- or apt, anyway. but look at those rays. if they can pull this off after too many years in the cellar, surely the Os' turn for a good season can't be too long away. some of us red sox fans still don't know how to behave like non-chronic-underdogs after the two series; it's weird, sort of like someone stops kicking the wind out of you and hands you a lollipop, and you can't figure out if it's safe to get up or not. good luck for 2012 -- hey, that'll be just in time for another election year! yippee!

awwwwwwwww. but:

thanks for this, LOVE it.

fantastic. talk about obvious disenfranchisement attempts!

exotic? how about simply "refreshing" and "it's about time" and "finally possibly the ultimate representation for african americans after centuries of little to none"? all-white can get old after a couple of centuries plus here in the melting pot. i don't know why other people are voting for him, but i'll vote for him because he's the best one running in my book and yes, that he's not white is icing on the cake in some pretty meaningful ways.

i've always thought that.

i just hate that i'm late to this important discussion. people tend to rip the same length of paper off the roll no matter now many plies it has. this means that the use of two-ply is a waste of one whole ply; three-ply will waste double that. we can't help ourselves.

i'm glad someone is using it for all it's worth!

wow, that's interesting. i suspect the sox clubhouse atmosphere was worse before the trade than anyone could say, despite numerous leaked hints.

ultimately, i think he's right, though no doubt it sometimes depends on just what our democratic government is doing.

a lot here today.

kwall does this almost 100% of the time, and bobbob copies him part of the time. i wonder why you don't object then.

process of elimination.

very helpful, when you look at what's happened since those people failed to get elected. i thought kerry had almost nothing to offer, but nothing would have been a hell of a lot better than what we got instead.

no empathy for other humans is very easy to spot, no matter what the political party.

totally off topic, but against my better judgment i saw an absolutely ridiculous movie last night out of desperation. it had only one good line. older mother and grown daughter met in a restaurant for lunch. the mother said "i know you don't drink in the afternoon, but you will, so why not start now."

by the way, i think the whole shopping "ethic" that has grown in this country is absolutely pathetic and causes all kinds of people to take their eyes off the "balls" that count. and it isn't just the availability of shopping or pressure to shop that's at fault, it's the people who "buy" into it.

exhausting reading. many individual people were selfless and giving in countless ways both on the scene on 9/11 and for a long time afterward. this means that american people, like others in most countries, care enough about their neighbors to do something, whatever they can at the time, when tragedy hits. this describes a good portion of humanity the world over, period, and at those times the best that many people have to offer comes to the fore. it's moving. hell, i sometimes choke up when people actually forget their own personal road missions enough to automatically pull over whe

verrry interesting -- with great pics, showing some protest signs with sparks. my favorite might be the young girl holding a big sign that says "THANKS BUT NO THANKS, SARAH! I DESERVE A BETTER ROLE MODEL." i don't get the oprah fuss. obama was on before he was a candidate, so none of the pres. or v.p. candidates since their announcing have been on oprah. if oprah were to change her policy about having candidates on her show this year and interview v.p. candidate palin, she might be obliged to have v.p. candidate biden on as well -- but not obama and not mccain. in any case, i thi

ask beltmann.

and also, "it's the policy they care about." not any party's policy, u.s. policy in the middle east when it is based on desire for control over their resources.

i would not be interested in that, and hope you'll knock off making such assumptions about my views. this isn't the first time you've done it. knock it off.