I've just heard of a group of artists called the Stuckists. They seem to be against the fake art that you're talking about. One of their slogans is that if it has to be in a gallery to be art, it isn't art.

I knew plenty of people in high school who seemed to be of average intelligence. Then they got to college and got inspired. Suddenly, they were actually interested in learning and were getting good grades. One went on to get a Ph.D., and others could have done so.

So far, not a single commentator has talked about the main point of the article, which is to learn Spanish so as to get Latinos in this country to vote Republican.

If the third party were named the Job Creation Party, then I don't see why it wouldn't pick up lots of young Democrats who are frustrated trying to get jobs these days. It would have no ties to what are perceived as misdeeds by Republican candidates (like outsourcing), nor would it have ties to the Greens, who are always favoring the environment over job creation. If it were marketed properly, it could cut deeply into the Democratic ranks.

Is there some movement among liberals to eliminate the singing of the national anthem before sporting events? On another note, the end of our policing the world will mean the return of the slave trade. As it is, we've seen the return of piracy, and that of course will expand.

The Islamo-Progressive alliance is one of the mysteries of our era. As someone who leans left, I don't have a clue. My views on Muslims were formed when the new theocracy in Iran butchered liberals and leftists, and then a decade later issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I keep bringing these events up, but no other liberal or leftist seems to listen. I just read Martha Nussbaum's new book on religious intolerance. She is in utter denial. She mentions Rushdie, but not the fatwa against him! Incredible. She should be donated to a Freudian museum as a prime example of how someone highly intelligent can nevertheless have a huge blind spot that many others, far less intelligent than she is, don't have.

It took me a long time to figure it out, but Proposition 13 was was designed to help out the little guy, and we on the left were idiots to oppose it. Maybe you'll figure this out someday, too.

That's what's so funny! Reagan was supposed to be stupid, while Obama is supposed to be smart, so why is he doing something so stupid? At least Reagan has the excuse that he didn't know what the consequences would be, but Obama already knows. Heh.

"... young heterosexual men such as Calvin seem to be avoiding that specific trap [namely, commitment]. As a result, many women in their 40s are sad and single without children or with fatherless children. In the 1970s, 1 in 10 women passed childbearing years without having a child. Today it's 1 in 5." I see it differently. I see these women not as reacting to men who aren't interested in commitment, but as being influenced by feminism. Feminism freed them from the strong expectation that they needed to get married and have a child. Instead, they could have a career. Relationships and children were considered optional. Men really have nothing to do with it. It's all about feminism.

canetoad, peer review is vastly overrated by people like you. I had twenty years of experience with it, and it was rotten. But then, people like you always want to listen to what people at the top say about it, never what those of us at the bottom say.

I'm from Minnesota, and I always hated the Metrodome. It destroyed my favorite team, the Minnesota Kicks soccer team. I now live near Columbus, Ohio, and what I like about the Columbus Crew is that they paid for their own stadium. That should be the model for teams everywhere.