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That's not anything like the people I know who smoke weed. They're all successful professionals and business people, but then, they are also adults. Check out http://cannabisconsumers.org.

I don't understand why people have a hard time with pcs. I used to be a Mac guy, but it's been a long time since Mac's were better. I never have problems with my pc. Now when I help set up things on my daughter's MacBook, the user interface just seems clumsy, it's hard to get things to work, sometimes it's hard to know if software has even been installed. And now I've discovered that the USB ports are somehow defective. I was able to hook up my camera to her Mac's usb only by jiggling the connection and then keeping absolutely still after it finally connected. So now the FreeAgent Go drive I got for her no longer can connect reliably enough to work, even though it did a week ago. By contrast, I find that everything just works on a pc, new software, new hardware, everything.

Just google on "government agents infiltrate" and you'll get a lot of stories like this from the other side of the political spectrum - only in that case they're true, and not some sort of wingnut claptrap.

I like how Republicans are all about privacy now, but when it's George Bush's minions listening in on your phone conversations, they're at the head of the line for a piece of that action.

You missed the point. Nobody ever claimed there wasn't natural variation in climate. There's natural variation on top of global warming, how is that so hard to comprehend?

Suppose there's a linear warming trend of .1 degrees per decade, and there's also a sinusoidal variation of 3 degrees over 9 decades, with the 1st, 5th, and 9th decades being at zero, and the 3rd and 7th being at 1.5 and -1.5 respectively.

Then in the third decade you'll 1.7 degrees over but in the 7th decade you'll be 0.8 degrees under, even though you'll be 0.9 degrees over at the end of 9 decades.

This is an oversimplified example, but it shows how it's possible to have a warming trend masked by a warming/cooling cycle.

I never had a problem with telling my daughter I'm for legalization of cannabis. Her friends know how I feel about it too.

I let her know that if there was a choice between alcohol and cannabis, I would much prefer that young people be consuming cannabis rather than alcohol, especially if there were any teenage boys driving. Cannabis is much, much safer than alcohol in so many ways.

My daughter's 20 now, never had a problem with drugs, makes straight A's, grades papers, tutors football players, used to be a cheerleader until she got too busy. She drinks a little, but I'm pretty sure she never smokes cannabis because I can smell even trace amounts of it. I'd still rather she consumed cannabis rather than alcohol, except for the legal implications.

There are at least as many kinds of liberalism as there are of conservatism. You've done so much cherry picking and straw man erection, it's hard to know where to start, but let's just look at this one set of "characteristics of madness".

1. Creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

Throughout the election Republicans never took responsibility for their faults, but always cast themselves as the victims of a hostile press. Post-election Republicans continue with the victimization card, with Rush Limbaugh, for example, claiming they have been victimized before the new President has even taken office.

2. Satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

The most fervent detractors of a progressive income tax are Republican trust fund babies who never earned a dime in their lives.

3. Augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

The entire Republican way of life is dependent on feelings of envy, hence their propensity for extravagant consumption and chants of "Drill, baby drill!"

4. Rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

For 8 years, Republicans have been ratcheting up the power of the government over the individual and have managed to create the most expensive government in the history of mankind.

You might be right that some forms of liberalism are madness, but it's clear that some forms of conservatism are also madness.

I've had it up to here with pretentious blockheads bandying about words like "neo-marxist" as if they knew what they were talking about, as if the mere mention of the concept would lend them some kind of intellectual caché to heighten their negligible credibility.

I don't know much about Alcee Hastings, maybe he isn't such a great guy, but just because a few liberal Democrats might be racists doesn't mean the only racists are liberal Democrats. That's just absurd, and it's pretty obvious that the same lack of ability logic made evident by your headline afflicts the rest of your thinking.

Just because Sarah Palin is being taken to task by the corporate media doesn't mean she's being mistreated. Sometimes people really are shallow, ignorant, dishonest, and mean. People like that who are running for the highest office of the land ought to be taken to task. Just because she's a woman or just because she's a Republican doesn't mean anyone should cut her some slack. Let's have a little higher standards here!

Apparently the law says you can register if you will be 18 when you vote, so what's the problem?

I always wondered why people didn't get angry at the Harry Potter books. There's all kinds of fat and ugly hate in those books.

What jump? There's never a jump.

E-Ink is about 150 dots per inch, so it's denser than a typical monitor screen. It's reflective rather than transmissive, and it has no flicker at all, so it's like ink on paper. I haven't seen one yet, but that's what the technology is about.

I realize it's just an observation, but maybe throw a bone to the ignoranumses among us. The first time I ever heard of Naomi Klein was when I saw her on the Stephen Colbert Show. You know how that goes, hard to tell exactly what she's talking about there.

So if it's possible to do so in a nutshell, could you please explain your observation to someone who doesn't know a Naomi Klein from a Jon Cusack, but who does know a Michael Behe from a Richard Dawkins?

If they wanted it to be pronounced "ten", they should have called it OS 10 or OS Ten. I will continue to pronounce it OS "EKS".

I also correctly pronounce Brett Favre's last name as "FAH VRUH", and Dwyane Wade's first name as "DWY-YANE".

If they wanted it to be pronounced "ten", they should have called it OS 10 or OS Ten. I will continue to pronounce it OS "EKS".

I also correctly pronounce Brett Favre's last name as "FAH VRUH", and Dwyane Wade's first name as "DWY-YANE".

Where I come from, being politically correct means thinking George Bush is the greatest president evar.

Where I come from, being politically correct means thinking George Bush is the greatest president evar.