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That's a very interesting question, Ellen. The kind they write novels about. I don't really know what to tell you. I am wary of the giant love-emotion when I feel it now, as it has always been the harbinger of drama and woe. Camus said two things, both of which seem deeply true: "As all the specialists in passion teach us, there is no eternal love but what is thwarted" and " I know of only one duty, and that is to love." I guess the question is would you be happier living in the aching-space of thwarted love in hopes of fulfillment, or living with a less intense, and at times frustrating and c

"First in war, first in peace and last in the American League." Not to knock on D.C., but the Senators did leave, umm, twice. (Watch, just to prove me wrong, the Nats will dominate the NL East this year.)

For whatever reason, baseball in D.C. is cursed. Maybe it's the cherry blossoms.

Sincerely, I hope you had an awesome and life-affirming day.

Best wishes on your special day!

The problem is, he ain't got nothing left.

Vibes, man.

For the life of me, I don't know why I don't root for the Devils.

Aw, hell no. How many guns are in private ownership in this country?

So, what is it I am missing?

I mean, fuck, it used to be only one member of a family had to have a full-time gig to lead a pretty good life. I am not putting all of this on laissez-faire capitalism (well, all right, I am, actually) but we have seriously gotten off track here in the U.S. of A.

Y'know, if Republican ideas are so great, why are we in the mess we're in now? I mean, I certainly understand some of their economic arguments, but it seems all it's resulted in is the erosion of the middle class, the class that really is the backbone of this country. Am I missing something?

Because when he signed with the Yanks, he had to eat a ton of Christian babies to seal his pact with Satan.

I realize that sounds good on paper, but look what basing an economic system based on no restraints and hoping everyone would behave because it was in their self-interest to do so got us. For a lefty, I take a pretty dim view of people. I think we are by and large greedy, selfish, short-sighted and mean, and if it was left to us to completely run our own affairs, we would all be in Nasty-Brutish-Short mode before too terribly long. To me, the ideal of government is to take the better angels of our nature and codify them into law. Now, since I am a Christian, what Rand touted is anathema to wha

Ayn Rand was so deluded she did not know how evil her philosophy truly was. Objectivism is the most brilliantly rationalized Satanism ever.

While there are certainly people who lived beyond their means and will now, perhaps deservedly, move down a few notches on the ladder, hard economic times always hurt people on the margins the most. I don't know, but I have a feeling that group makes up a little bit more than 0.001 percent of the population. And, I think it is only illegal to "another person's money to provide for someone else" in Ayn-Randia. C'mon, dude. Even Greenspan is for nationalization nowadays.

Right or wrong, people are hurting and need help. The aversion to the economic equivalent of "tough love" is completely understandable when the tough love would mean you get to be hungry and homeless.

Poll: Most Americans Back Obama on Stimulus, Mortgage Plans Bipartisan Support Drops Significantly as More Republicans Disapprove of How President Is Handling Job By Michael A. Fletcher and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, February 23, 2009; 5:00 PM As President Obama prepares to address a joint session of Congress tomorrow night, he receives strong grades for his first full month in office, as large majorities of Americans support his $787 billion economic stimulus package and the recently unveiled $75 billion plan for stemming mortgage foreclosures, according to a new Wash

He will, with the possible exception of the one in the Bronx.

I will use my stimulus money to get my car fixed, so I can remain employed. My mechanic is American. We cool, Lou Dobbs?

I don't, but I also don't think a purely ass-kicking solution is going to work in this case. Afghanistan is tougher than Vietnam. Pakistan is this close to becoming a failed state. We have to fight the ones who are too far gone to see the light and convince everybody else that terror is not the solution to their problems. Diplomacy is not weakness. Thinking a military solution is the whole enchilada is mental weakness.

They were lunatics, but calling their act senseless seems to me to be another case of sweeping-it-under-the-rug-edness. The American people really need to understand the motives of those motivated enough to fly planes into our skyscrapers. That does not mean condoning them in any way. If we don't understand their motives, how are we going to effectively argue against them? Muslims are not stupid.

I realize it is considered by many to be high-minded to not bring race into things, but I am going to argue that it is not high-minded at all, especially when it comes to economic issues. It is in fact low-minded, and smacks of sweep-under-the-rug-edness and revisionist history. Black people were targeted by the subprime lenders and have been perennial targets of other kinds of predatory lending, and I think the man is justified in calling out political grandstanding like what is going on in South Carolina and Louisiana, and pointing out that it hurts black people more than it hurts white peop

Yeah, pointing out that a lot of black people are poor is a terrible thing. What a dick.

Max Kellerman gave a good dissertation on the radio yesterday about how much huger the new Yankee Stadium is than Fenway, and how that will allow them to generate revenue on a massive scale. He argued that for the Sox to gain parity, they need to build a big fat baseball stadium in Foxborough and bid Fenway farewell.