Latest Comments

• You are what you read, study suggests

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • So, this study is implying that literary censorship is justified, after all? That books such as Lady Chatterly's Lover really DID damage society?

• Poll: Most Egyptians think US aid billions have 'negative effect'

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • I wonder whether the Egyptians who want to annul the peace treaty with Israel would indeed by willing to let Israel re-occupy the Sinai peninsula. Israel giving up the occupation was part of the agreement.

• Wells Fargo fires employee for '72 shoplifting conviction

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • So hire a lawyer and get the crime expunged from the record. Then they'll be able to hire you back.

• 4 years later, race is still issue for some voters

  Fri May 4, 2012
  • I like Obama and I think he's doing a good job, but I just don't think the country is ready for a black President.

• Sources: Scant evidence 'torture' helped war on terror, Senate probe finds

  Fri Apr 27, 2012
  • I'm not surprised there is scant evidence. The whole point of doing things secretly is to suppress the evidence of what you're doing.

• First Thoughts: The politics of bin Laden, one year later

  Mon Apr 30, 2012
  • Time to play a tiny violin.

• Are doctors rich? They don't think so, survey finds

  Thu Apr 26, 2012
  • OF COURSE doctors are not rich -- rich people have butlers, chauffeurs, and other servants. Doctors are upper-middle class.

• George Zimmerman: Prelude to the shooting of Trayvon Martin

  Wed Apr 25, 2012
  • Those BURGLARS murdered Treyvon Martin. _They're_ the ones who are responsible for his death. AND, they're the ones responsible for people in the neighborhood viewing young black men with suspicion.

• The unexpected downside of cohabiting before marriage

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • "My parents got married young so, of course, they got divorced. We lived together! How did this happen?" Maybe she should have looked more towards her GRANDPARENTS' example.

• Earliest painting of transvestite is uncovered in British gallery

  Fri Apr 20, 2012
  • Actually, for most of recorded history transvestism was the norm. Even to this day, English men wearing traditional garb (priests, professors, judges) wear gowns (or, as in the case of Scottish Highlanders, skirts).