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This Year's Top Ten (In no particular order) by ER March 30, 2012 10:11 am

Top Ten what? by TB 2012-03-30 12:21:42
I can't resist, the Runners-up: by ER 2012-03-30 10:41:47

This is my idea of an American soldier. by bowser March 30, 2012 12:37 am

Soldiers like that are the rule, not the exception. Good men and women. by TB 2012-03-30 10:35:01

I see your "civet cat coffee..." by TB March 29, 2012 8:33 pm

This may be grim. The other shootings with two stories. by bowser March 29, 2012 8:35 pm

The stimulus was a failure by BuckGalaxy March 29, 2012 11:57 am

I don't know that I'd agree with that conclusion. It seemed to me the country was headed into a ... by bowser 2012-03-29 14:29:39
- You misread it, missing the "Not!" Buck agrees with you. by TB 2012-03-29 16:34:33
  - Damn. Second time in two days I've done something like that. Believe it or not, I sent a letter off ... by bowser 2012-03-29 20:05:21

Cookies by TB March 29, 2012 7:58 pm

Ever wonder what happened to the "Exxon Valdez"? by bowser March 29, 2012 6:08 pm

Well, of course they had to change the name. No one would want that ship in their ports after ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-29 18:15:06
- That sounds kind of superstitious to me. by TB 2012-03-29 19:03:48
  - Not superstition. Public relations. by ER 2012-03-29 19:48:53
    - In many different arenas, I've seen a lot of overlap between those two. by TB 2012-03-29 19:50:30

More Sanford shooting news. by ER March 28, 2012 8:44 pm

Commentary by Victor Davis Hanson by TB 2012-03-29 09:44:45
- Another commentary, from American Spectator. by TB 2012-03-29 09:52:04
  - Tucker's comments are more in line with my own. I remember Hanson mostly as the Right's expert on the ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:04:43
I think the biggest question of all here is, why the hell is this getting so much more publicity than ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 22:00:54
- The short answer is because the "War on Women" fell on its face. :) by TB 2012-03-29 09:38:12
  - You obviously haven't been keeping up with the beating the GOP is taking in the polls from women, or maybe ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:08:02
    - The Virginia poll can be found here. by TB 2012-03-29 14:00:53
      - Not to worry, TB. We'll see to it your tribe gets full credit for the mandatory vaginal ultrasound probe ... by ER 2012-03-29 17:45:20
        
        That's okay. Look at the list of the things "your tribe" is going to be getting "credit" for next election. by TB 2012-03-29 19:28:29
- My question is why is this story getting so much attention now when it happened about a month ago? by ER 2012-03-29 06:11:24
  - It's difficult to track a story back to when it first became widely controversial. by TB 2012-03-29 09:37:15
    - What exactly "blew up on them"? Nowhere in the ABC story is it implied Zimmerman was Anglo or Republican. And it ... by ER 2012-03-29 11:17:07
Police Report by RobVG 2012-03-28 21:19:36
Good assessment by RobVG 2012-03-28 21:05:13
- Its politics because race relations and conflict in America are political. It is and has always been the fundamental political ... by ER 2012-03-29 05:58:25
The irritating part is that the evidence should be lined up already for the authorities. by TB 2012-03-28 20:55:24
- I suspect that regardless of what happened between Martin and Zimmerman, the police investigation was botched, and all this confusion ... by ER 2012-03-29 05:26:19

99 Red Balloons by Jody March 29, 2012 11:49 am

The song, roughly translated. Very roughly. by TB 2012-03-29 14:05:48
- or....99 rabid racoons... by Jody 2012-03-29 15:51:28
I love that song. To all the men on the Zone: Who here thinks Nena was hot back in the ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-29 12:36:49

A bioethicist weighs in: Was Cheney too old for a transplant? by bowser March 25, 2012 7:26 pm

What if you're too fat instead of too old? Who wins? Who decides? by TB 2012-03-27 16:25:26
- All services where demand exceeds supply must be rationed, whether by an administrative decision based on guidelines and judgements, the ... by ER 2012-03-27 20:32:12
  - A short article on the heart transplant system and Cheney here. by TB 2012-03-27 21:09:24
Half a life by Jody 2012-03-27 15:21:36
My daughter's F/inlaw died recently at age 86. He had a perforated colon and went septic. The Doctors said he ... by FrankC 2012-03-27 12:03:01
- The answer depends. Was it correct for him? For his family? For his personal community? For his physician? For ... by bowser 2012-03-27 21:14:46
  - He was begging for the surgery He had the wherewithall to pay for it I think he knew he was unlikely to ... by FrankC 2012-03-28 00:17:13
    - If he was competent, his is the only directive which matters. Friends and family, including those with a Power ... by bowser 2012-03-28 16:06:27
Horse dookey. No he is not too old. You guys hate him so therefore want to see him dead...gone...finito... by Jody 2012-03-26 13:48:12
- Read the citation. by bowser 2012-03-26 14:35:50
  - What citation? The article? I did...and...? by Jody 2012-03-26 14:44:21
    - I forgot. English is your second language. The normal cut-off for transplants is 70. Cheney is 71. There is a ... by bowser 2012-03-26 16:14:34
      - That's all you got? aw c'mon old man, you can do better than that....btw...how old are you now? by Jody 2012-03-26 18:14:19
        
        I have, as has Cheney, exceeded my 3 score and 10. And similar to Cheney, I don't deserve to ... by bowser 2012-03-27 00:04:20
        
        I simply don't understand your thoughts on this....you condone abortion. What is the difference? by Jody 2012-03-27 06:29:20
        
        A fetus is called "fetus" because it's not a "people". Larva are called "larva" because they are not a ... by bowser 2012-03-27 17:38:28
        
        Never been pregnant have you Bowser? by Jody 2012-03-27 19:23:11
        
        Not lately. But to continue the silliness, I have been a fetus and I have been a people. ... by bowser 2012-03-27 20:17:26
        
        Not really a silly question. In my reality when a woman is pregnant, so is the man who helped get ... by Jody 2012-03-28 07:27:42
        
        You are right. I don't think Cheney deserves to live, no matter his age. And, therefore, I don't ... by bowser 2012-03-28 16:18:25
        
        Some people are more of a threat after they die Bowser...you can't kill an idea. by Jody 2012-03-28 18:20:05
        
        Cheney is not a martyr. He's a war criminal. If he traveled to many countries he'd be tried, ... by bowser 2012-03-29 11:24:48
        
        Last. n/t by Jody 2012-03-29 11:44:03
But you gotta agree, Bowser, Dick Cheney finally has a heart. Get it? He finally has a heart. Who wants to be ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-03-25 21:37:17
- "Ya gotta have heart, all you really need is heart, oh it's fine to be a genius of course but ... by bowser 2012-03-26 12:40:38
Well, there are precedents, you know... by ER 2012-03-25 20:41:57
- Oh, come on! Compared to Cheney, Vader was a saint! by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 01:12:39

UN climate panel ties some weather extremes to global warming by bowser March 28, 2012 10:48 pm

It's hard to use a single year's weather extremes to prove anything, the data is too noisy. North America ... by ER 2012-03-29 07:15:53
- I believe they're using data from 1950 on, which would be close to 60 years. "Warming has led to changes in ... by bowser 2012-03-29 10:40:18
200$ bucks says nothing happens after this. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 23:24:55

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