"I realize I cannot force my version of feminism upon non-Western women."...

Will she then take responsibility for "forcing" these women to wear trousers? I guess it is just about the -ism rather than civilized behavior. We won't even broach the subject 1.6 billion humans living under a system that was horrific by medieval standards.

"How do you write women so well?
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets)

Can "feminists" reason or is it just a dodge to avoid accounability?

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

This obviously can't apply because "feminists" are not men.

Someone who has taken feminist theory modules and bought into said clap-trap.

The fact is that conservative radio was never the competitor for Air America. That is like saying Caterpillar and Toyota are competitors. If you need earth moved you shop Caterpillar; if you need a high tech clown car you shop Toyota.

Air America's market share competitor was NPR, and what happened is a harbinger of what will happen to medicine when the government becomes the bottomless pockets competitor of free-market insurance.

Springsteen is just the 80's Woody Guthrie; but without the honesty or integrity to be an avowed communist.

But enough of this blather. The point is that socialized medicine, and socialized everything else, will come sooner rather than later as proven by Mr. Avech’s post and 99% of the comments. The American creed has become: ME, ME, ME!!! NOW, NOW, NOW!!! ME, ME, ME!!! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!

It is perfectly reasonable that a nation of spoiled four-year olds would require a nanny.

A comparison of the Post Office to government health care is a diversion. It is a false comparison, introduced by The Obama, designed to send opponents down a dead-end logic street. The Post Office does not make life or death decisions. Whether it functions perfectly or not does not determine whether someone is crippled for life. It does not make sweeping decisions about new communications technologies, what will be developed, what will be utilized (approved), what will be forbidden. It does not require everyone participate, think of being legally obligated to buy a book of stamps everyday. It does not directly control or influence virtually everything in society down to and including elementary education (socialism requires a moral paradigm shift that quantifies human life rather than qualifying it). The only thing more fundamental is complete control of energy resources, development, and allocation. The wait time is merely the tip of the iceberg. A Post Office is required by the U.S. Constitution as an effective, uniform, means of communication to aid commerce, socialized medicine is compelled only by a desire for control. Not the market, not security, not as an aid to anything, only the desire to control.

Why are Americans so eager to think the worst of their fellow citizens, specifically postal workers and government employees? They are no more lazy, shiftless, stupid, or uncaring than anyone else with a job, generally speaking. They are no more responsible for the ills of any given system than the rest of the citizenry. So why are they less deserving of civility or decent behavior than anyone else? Identity politics may be a preferred tactic of the left, but the right does not hesitate to buy in with their own two cents.

So much is wrong with this post that there just isn't time to deal with it all. I really like Mr. Avech’s writing but this is neither fair-minded nor reasoned through.

How's this for an exercise to alleviate the boredom of waiting in line: Try to justify to a total stranger that you do anything productive enough to be worth your income. Do the twenty people standing around watching you work think you move fast enough, or are you merely "milling around?" Think of witty, cheerful ways to deal with a customer who attempts to engage you in conversation by being sarcastic about the wait time; then how you will deal the irate customer following who abuses you for the delay caused by customer number one's attempt at paying you back for everyone ahead of him who was not prepared, had to write a check, had to decide the level of service they wanted, etc., then multiply that by a hundred, keeping in mind that you do this day in and day out for years. Some fun. I know I would be perky to the point of giggles all day. One sign you will never see in a Post Office, “We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone.”

Writer_X wrote "I'm assuming there is a documentary ...."

Of course the documentary is a go. Why else would officer Crowley's chatisement be held out on the lawn. His public humiliation, better theater than a fair trial just before the lynching, will constitute half of the film. I'd bet the camera crew has already scouted the best angles and calculated the lighting variables. Of course, The Obama would never collude to help his esteemed friend make a bit of propaganda; clips of which will be very helpful in 2012 to demonstrate that another term is required so The One can continue the good work of transcending racism.

Officer Crowely is allowing himself to be used as a propaganda tool. To bad. From all reports he is a good cop and a reasonably smart, decent, man.

Another classy liberal act. Not "socialist"! So he's stupid as well. I most definitely vote with my pocket book. I see no reason to add to his angst about his obscene income. My family will eschew anything that has his name attached. I understand I will not close a thousand theaters, but if he, or anyone that is willing to have their good name associated with his, is a penny poorer for it then it is worth it.

No, my family will not be hurt by the lack of "cultural enrichment". Most of what comes out of Hollywood these days is trash anyway, and I mean that in a very bad way. I can think of 200 movies made before 1965 that I can obtain and be much more entertaining, instructive, and insightful than the bilge that passes for movies these days.

This from someone who was raised to love movies.

What happened to America that we give riff-raff like this a paycheck, much less honors? The madness of considering such cretins "elites" must stop.