Maybe I'm being unfair, but  while I liked her in 2008, since then it feels like she's all about being Sarah Palin: Tea Party Superstar! She has enjoyed being a celebrity (while whining about being in the spotlight and stepping down from office), and done a great job whipping up the mobs, but I would have preferred to see her maybe get serious on some policy issues, maybe do a radio show or something that might turn around that image of being an intellectual light weight. Instead she feels like Hannity in drag, repeating the same packaged catchphrases again and again, completely committed to preaching to her adoring choir.

We're not hand selecting a President here. We have a process. I am willing to listen to Christie. Let him run in the primaries. Let him explain to us why he is "conservative enough" (not necessarily Conservative) to earn our support. If he can do that, he will have our support in the general. But he will have a lot of 'splainin' to do.

Hello? Hello, Dmitri.

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The classic one was the Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick. Naturally Amazon pulled those comments.

While a hyper leftie, I like a lot of Randy Newman's "novelty" songs. Have a fondness for Political Science.

Tall order would be to be a better year than 1982. I think this has a chance of surpassing 1983-2012.

On my podcast (Dark Discussions) we intended to do a short little preview of the genre films coming out in 2013, and ended up talking for about 3 hours. There is so much genre material it is insane.

Has anyone put forth the Wizard of Oz?

Often first and only.

Also fair.

I have been pro-SSM for twenty years or so. It has become clear to me that the sides here are talking past each other, and the posts, no matter how frequent, are futile. Therefore I have not seen the slurs aimed at you, and have not been able to come to your defense. For that I am sorry. Please know that there are those of us who accept you and what you are, and are deeply disappointed in those who take their religious teachings as a reason for personal animosity.

At some point we have to draw a line. We can't red flag everybody with tentative connections to suspicious ideologies or we'll soon have so many flags that they become meaningless. The question is was there something specific that was missed at the time he was investigated.

Mantis Shrimp?

I don't think its an issue of terrorism. I think its an issue of treason and taking up arms against your nation by joining an alien army.

If this guy is a lone actor, the crimes he commits, whatever they are, no matter how horrible they are, are still the act of a single citizen, and he is still entitled to his rights.

If he has joined a group that is (for lack of a better term) at war with the United States, then I would think his citizenship is forfeit, and his rights are the same as any other prisoner taken on the battlefield.

Just think how devastating a dozen pressure cookers in random shopping malls during the holidays could be.

Pressure cookers don't kill people, marathons kill people.