Brydon is  a Partridge equal with repect to comedic talent, he just hasn't broken through yet. Might have something to do with his horse face. He does a brilliant  "man trapped in a box" effect.

Great post but I will point out one aspect of "advocacy" that you can recognize in all professions, I am an engineer and have seen in many different forms. When one trains for a profession one has an optimistic outlook on what practicing that profession is going to be like. Someone who spends all that time getting a medical degree only to work day in day out on staple cases, or an engineer who trains and then deigns staples all day every day could, and do get disillusioned, so they look for an out, any out. The engineer now testifies in personal injury suits for or against the staple industry, the doctor becomes an advocate.

The point, if I haven't is that boredom, and disillusionment and not altruism sometimes drive this kind of behavior.  

I carry inside and out side the home, anywhere where it is legal. I carry a Ruger LCP, which has a .380 round, hollow points are best because if you hit what you're aiming at the round  won't go through and ALL of the energy of the round winds up be internally absorbed. It is a small double action semi auto and you can be wearing nothing but a pair of shorts and no one will know you're carrying it. Just added a laser sight but haven't hand it to the range yet to test it out. Its size takes some getting used to. My  other hand gun is a Ruger 345, great gun but too big to conceal in warm weather.

Studying politics for 40 yrs.?  Maybe journalists should have term limits. Just (half) joking!

This is an idea that has been around for twenty years or more, arm everyone  on board and no more hijackings. It's a very simplistic, tempting, solution, but why has it taken an out of control, over funded widely despised, federal agengy so long to come up with it let alone propose it. This from to same agency that forced me to forfeit a small tool kit I'd I'd been carrying for 25 yrs. a couple of mounths after 911. Tell me this is a joke or where I can buy a salt shot gun, one or the other.

I am  disappointed with the discussion on energy policy because it is clear to me that neither side has a clue how the energy industry works. I know that this is not an energy forum and as such thediscussions are not going to be very deep, but someone PLEASE at least make an effort to read a energy trade publications before opinionating on energy policy, it's embarrassing to read or listen to ill conceived ideas put forth in this forum by folks who obviously don't have any idea how the energy industry works.

Why don't you have on an energy expert, not a wonk, who can give a well informed view of the energy market and what perturbs it.

Eeveryone knows that large energy related projects take years to vet and build, but what most don't know, is that the announcement of a large energy project alone has an inordinate and immediate effect on the energy market, because the companies that are in the market automatically start reviewing their position in light of the new capacity coming on line, the credible announcement of new capacity  has a dramatic effect even before the first foundations are poured.

Does the oil reserve actually exist or is it a bunch of virtual tanks containing imaginary oil? I know this sounds a little paranoid but given the gov'ts  habit of writing IOU's it might not be that far fetched.

I would pose the same question about CNN's  Peirs Morgan. He is under investigation in th U.K. for a phone hacking scandel that included hacking into the phone records of a deceased teenage girl and  paying police for "scoops"

This man should be exposed for what he is, a parasite, and sent packing.

Fiat is now offering an SUV under the Maseratti badge based on a Cherokee, but the bigger question is who paid for the most expensive ads, air time and production costs, on tv?

We have met the enemy and he is us!

Fiat is now offering an SUV under the Maseratti badge based on a Cherokee, but the bigger question is who paid for the most expensive ads, air time and production costs, on tv?

We have met the enemy and he is us!

My "Yoda moment" was in a Thermo class, I had never been encouraged to pursue science coming from a lower middle class background and was expected to get a factory job like my Dads'.

Frank Rubin was a Thermo teacher with a particular gift. He explained Mollier charts to the class but when he did it I felt like he was talking directly to me.

I built a 30+ year career on what he taught me in one semester.

Assad's' wife is, from what I've seen and read, very intelligent, well educated and........... out of the picture? What is going on with her, is she as ruthless as her husband and the rest of the ruling clan? Cluelessness is not an excuse at this point.

Re Young Frankenstein'

I hate to break the news but, Kenneth Mar, the guy who played the police commandant with  the "mechanical" arm and had that outrageous  acccent, passed away last week. Every scene he is in in that movey is not only histerical but masterful, setting his artificial finger on fire to light a cigar, OMG!

There's a n apple and oranges comparison going on here in that the article compares a comressible fluid with an incompressible fluid, in order to do a fair analysis, the article should have stated the temperature and pressure assumed to calculate the air volume. If they did the comparison a two saturated liuids, for example the spheres would look quite different. Sorry, I'm geeking out, someone save me!

Having read the Gingrich editorial, listened to Young Guns #8 and then listened to "Does Not Compute" where Rob Long explained that the demise of Time and Newsweek could be pinned to their attempts to "re-educate the electorate" . Really?

I listened to the podcast yesterday and I think there is one thing that was kinda sorta mentioned but is probably one of the biggest reasons that Newt is where he is in the polls and that is because he is "not Mitt"