"But it's still uncanny that it all went unremarked upon in 2008."

Diane, please.

I was wrong about "the most part."

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6% of Americans are severely mentally ill (National Institute of Mental Health, 2009). In a 2008 survey performed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 25 cities were asked for the three largest causes of homelessness in their communities. Mental illness was the third largest cause of homelessness for single adults (mentioned by 48% of cities). For homeless families, mental illness was mentioned by 12% of cities as one of the top 3 causes of homelessness.

The homeless for the most part are mentally ill or suffer from a crippling addiction. I find it hard to be light-hearted about their situation.

I'm getting the same feeling. It can't be good news to the White House that a prison inmate, an obscure lawyer, and non-committed got 40 percent of the vote in the three most recent primaries. If Obama were white a well-known Democrat would be contesting his reelection.

You won't see a real change until a week or so before the election when the polls show the country returning in a huge  way to its traditional center-right orientation. Then we'll get a heavy dose of how it wasn't the message but the idealistic messenger who was too noble to fight dirty. We'll learn that a more seasoned Obama, chastened like Bill Clinton after his first term as governor, will return to the political wars bigger and hotter and even more cool than ever.

I think the case can be made that the Boomers are the worst generation ever. Let's take education. They inherited the best school system ever and turned it into a trash heap of grievance studies and political correctness that produces graduates barely literate and almost entirely ignorant of history, not to mention virtually unemployable even if there were jobs. Under Bush and Obama our once dominant international status has declined steeply, our military power is headed the same direction, our popular culture is polluted, drug use is rampant, illegitimacy is so common no one thinks it even matters anymore, the legacy media is a tool of the left, the academy permits no dissent from liberal orthodoxy, nearly half the population is dependent on transfer payments from the young (who despair of their future), the proliferation of red tape means it takes years longer to build an off ramp from the Golden Gate Bridge than it did the bridge itself, the concentration of wealth rivals that of the robber baron era, Wall Street controls both parties now instead of just one, we can't send people into space anymore ... well, one could go on and on.

I've got to give the laurel to the edited version. Yours was aimed at showing your writer's chops and theirs at organizing and telling the story briskly and with concision.  Every writer needs an editor.

"Birther" is a term of derision inspired by the Saul Alinsky handbook. Ridicule the opposition or use any other means to marginalize them. I thought we all understood this by now.

I doubt Jesus would be permitted today to speak on all but a handful of college campuses in the South.

Watch Chris laugh it off. To the buffoon any attention is good.

The Department of Homeland Security has thought long and hard about the problem. It just may explain their recent purchase of 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo.

Guys? Did they have guys on the pole? It's San Francisco!

And going back to the article, I see  S.F. has discovered a new category of oppression, "size-ism." I think everybody in the city by the bay can now claim victimhood under one category or another.

You've got a good head or your shoulders. Be a shame to lose it.

But seriously, you do have a motion detector at your place?

I'm sorry to strike a dissenting note, but I think the MSM should dig deeper into Mitt's past. Was he a disruptive figure in elementary school? To go back even further, was he early or late in potty training or somewhere in between? Was he breast fed or bottle fed? There is much for highly skilled journalists to sift through. This is no time to ease up.

No, not the No. 1 spot, but he'd be an improvement over Joe Biden for No. 2.

Feminist theory is empowering.