bjorn_skurj

There is no "Canadian agenda" affecting the world because Canada is not that big of a country - a little more than a 10th of the U.S. population and less than a tenth of the U.S. GDP. Whether crazy, sane or somewhere in between, the U.S. agenda cannot help but affect the world, which is why most non-Americans (except your esteemed self, apparently) were over-fucking-joyed that Obama won.

I think Iran is a threat to the stability of the oil flow out of the Middle East, but that's about as far as it goes. Iran seems to want to be the hegemon in that part of the world, which makes Americans pretty nervous as we have had some issues with them dudes in the past. It would seem to me that both sides have a lot to lose by getting involved in a shooting war, but people's judgment might be bad and one might happen anyway, as a result of an Iranian navy patrol boat giving too much sass to a U.S. Navy destroyer or something. Maybe Iran will "test" us, as Biden predicted someone might in t

I would imagine so. There is probably more than one Jeff Tweedy in the world.

Well, since I can't get behind any soccer team in New York that is not named the Cosmos, I am all right with Columbus winning. Congrats!

Diet Dr P. is not bad.

Thanks, man!

For everyone who was liable to die in a vast nuclear war?

Hoping you have a great birthday and that things start looking up soon. It is a damn shame when someone as cool as you is vexed.

If Obama is the tool of the Bilderbergers/Illuminati/NWO, then I guess they are picking his cabinet people too. Now, what if Nader is part of the conspiracy too? After all, his unattractive petulance and strident annoyingness turns people off to his ideas, and isn't that what "they" want?

I think psychopaths are behind most terrorist organizations. Governments manipulate them at their peril, though it could be argued that making Afghanistan as tough as possible for the Soviets brought a quicker end to the Cold War, making the world a much safer place on average.

The point being an attack by al-Qaida is a simpler explanation for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, than some sort of Zionist-neocon conspiracy to set bombs in buildings and suchlike.

Dude, are you familiar with the concept of Occam's Razor?

I am not sure a second investigation would find anything substantially different from what the first one found - al-Qaida came up with a high-concept, low-tech plan and the bloated bureaucracy of the U.S. national defense apparatus couldn't put the pieces together to stop it. We taxpayers certainly did not get our money's worth on that day.

I am really enjoying this Giants season. Wotta team.

J-E-T-S, JETS JETS JETS!

31 - the wording of some of them was little weird, I thought.

Suicide is what happens when people lose their battle with depression, which is a sadly undertreated illness in our society. I heard somewhere that some 90 percent of people who kill themselves had never sought any sort of help for depression.

Whoever edited that piece is in trouble - the stylebook says directly to use "hanged" in that instance.

I caught the very end of the Breakfast With The Beatles show on XM coming in, and they had the most curious thing - a cover of Revolution 9 by some outfit called The Shazam. Interesting - they took the sonic elements, reworked them a bit, threw in some new stuff, including a Twin Peaks-ish melody.

Warm wishes on your special day!

I know! Nothing's ever good enough for him. Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch.

Life was good during the Clinton years. Nader should go get himself fucked, IMO.

Wishing you the ne plus awesomest of birthdays! http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/vassar.html

I understand your stance just fine, thanks.