:-) I guess some things are just beyond your willingness to comprehend. Some other time perhaps...

No, the ideal is the abandonment of man's authority over man. Forced conformity is your bag. Okay, cool. Then let's make sure everybody is treated the same, under the same rules. I was simply being a bit more pragmatic in a world where people who see equality as a threat to their privileged status and lifestyle want to take us back to the dark ages.

He paid Dice 25 cents

WOAH! I'm goin' to the movies!

Well, as long as we are to have a government, and while it does have this authority over who can sign a marriage contract and distributes related benefits, I will insist that it treats everybody equally until all such legislation is off the books. It's not complicated.

If you like all this high drama, you can keep all this high drama. That's all you've showed me so far. To paraphrase: The business of policy is business, and that includes war. Instead you focus on Madison Avenue theatrics. This is what I've always been talking about, you and your blogs are being strung along by mass media (and such a "liberal" one, no less!), and you swallow and regurgitate it like a bulimic starlet. "Embarrass"... Give it a rest. The only people who should be embarrassed are the ones who find any of it believable. Your "diplomats" are laughing it up over cocaine and martinis, while you throw bricks at the TV announcer because obviously he's responsible.

I would like to see the numbers that point to such a conclusion.

Yes, foreign policy is exactly about trading commodities and making contracts and securing markets, and guess who's still way ahead of the crowd. The ideology is much ado about nothing, it's like taking professional sports seriously, but it is very useful as a motivational tool, That is its purpose, after all. It keeps people occupied... talking gibberish.

Foreign policy is set and judged by the Commerce Department, not the State Department(Damn! I wish I could remember where I just saw that). Its job is to sell, and the market has been very good to them.

I guess if you wish to continue to frame it as some John Wayne cold war flick, yeah, it looks pretty bad, doesn't it? But don't you fret, business is good, everybody's happy.

No, but the numbers point in exactly the opposite direction of such a ridiculous notion. American foreign "policy" is as robust as it ever was. Most people want to buy American, even when it's made in China.

Please! Let's try to get all this ideology out of our heads, okay? George Will sounds just like another Pravda writer, may as well be working at the Post!

Hey, I'm just commenting on a blurb I saw. This is what you want, right?

Hey, what's up with that Michigan vote?

Yeah, that's gonna send any company to a chapter 11 instantly.

Yes, if you want to run up huge debts, then force your creditors into renegotiating their contracts, Chapter 11 is ideal.

Fine, just call me a cab...