"I know you are, but what am I?"

"Some whackjob says something stupid so you build him up into something he isn't, like a spokesperson for liberals or American Muslims or gun control advocates. "
I'm sorry mikatollah, it must really suck being a mouth-beathing toll; but being illiterate as well really completes the crap sandwich.
Zaid Shakir is an "eminent Islamic scholar" to the NYT and major academics, and is a go-to source for Lamestream reporters. But if you could read you'd have figured that out.

Funny how you trolls only remember the deficits of REPUBLICAN presidents. Must be Progessive Alzheimers.

"The enemies of freedom are often those who cloak themselves with protestations of patriotism. "
Look in the mirror, dimwad.

I don't need to marginalize your points. You do that yourself by being wound so tightly around the axle.

Despite all the posturing by Southern apologists to the contrary, slavery was the main impetus of secession. The decades of wrangling over the admission of slave and free states should be a clue that the issue was at white-hot pitch by 1860. South Carolina didn't even wait for Lincoln's inauguration.

Jefferson Davis's government's exempting plantation owners with more than 20 slaves from the military conscription they imposed on other non slave-owning Southerners doesnn't help your case either.

Just a tip: don't ever try comedy.
If you can't tell the difference between entendre, which was Groucho's forte, and Colbert's banal snarks at politicians his keepers disapprove of, you would die the death of ten thousand paper cuts onstage.

This is comedy? Fill a room with a bunch of mouth breathers who'd whoop with the same mindless enthusiasm at a public stoning, and let a Smirking Class Hero snark his biases for them?

Maybe they could just get Colbert to bite the head off a chicken; but that would offend self-respecting geeks everywhere.

At least all the Gen Y'ers now know where the themes for all those CSI shows come from.

Actually, I loved the Who. Great instrumentals and intelligent lyrics, and they didn't seem to take themselves as seriously as some others. Townsend still rocks (Didn't smash the guitar. Thrifty in his old age), but Daltrey's voice is gone. Sounds like Joe Cocker.

Watched the add this evening, and my reaction was: That's IT? I cannot imagine how anyone could find fault with Pam and Tim Tebow's testimony, unless to think like me that it was a bit too innocuous.
NARAL and Planned Barrenhood really led with their chins: their rantings for the past week had many more people curious to find out what was so offensive about the ad. After seeing it, they'll think (rightly) that they are nuts.

Some of my Foreign Faves: Jean Cocteau's "Belle e La Bette"; "My Father's Glory" and "My Mother's Castle"; Gerard Depardieu's "Cyrano de Bergerac"; "Le Visiteurs" (the French oiginal) with Jean Reno; and "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob". An incomplete list; I'll think of a dozen more when I post.