Beverly and Matt, I'm so sorry for your losses.

If men require women to go through the pain, we should return the favor.

I for one can't argue with his sentiment. On the other hand, why did we need to know any of that?

I wonder what happens if some super-hot chick they really want to get into bed isn't appropriately "presented" once they get down that far. Or are the "ladies" warned in advance so they can pop into the restroom with some shaving cream and a razor?

Matt, my sympathies for you and your family.

And really - 2008 can back off. Really.

First Terence Blanchard

You mean Terence Howard, right?

Extreme puppy cuteness!

An excellent article on the future of the GOP: The Next RNC Chair: Captain Of The GOP Titanic?

Looks at how demographics are against them, how they've chased out all the moderate Republicans, etc.

...GOP aspirants face the possibility of a nightmare scenario: taking the helm of a party so weighed down by doctrinaire hard-liners and hectoring moralists that no one, especially an RNC chair, will be able to change course and avoid a tsunami of culturally disinhibited, secularizing 'creatives,' Hispanics, African Americans, and a young netroot-savvy demographic cohort larger than the Baby Boom.

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The single largest block of Republican votes is made up of conservative white Christian evangelicals, who cast 4 out of every 10 ballots McCain received. These voters are overwhelmingly anti-abortion; they see homosexuality as a sin and as voluntary; many believe that women are subordinate and obliged to submit to the authority of men. These deeply held beliefs are increasingly out of tune with an electorate that has, in the main, come to terms with the sexual and women's rights revolution. Such trends are one of the reasons that the only age group McCain carried is people 65 and older - the voters who will die soonest.

The overall picture for Republicans at this point is bleak. Democratic consultant Bill Carrick catalogues the list of barriers: "Almost total lack of support from non-white voters, young voters are voting strongly Democratic and it may become a lifetime Democratic loyalty, the West is becoming more and more Democratic, the Democratic lock on the West Coast may be duplicated by a Democratic lock on the Atlantic Coast, in the post-Bush era Texas may become two-party competitive again, the once solidly Republican Mid-West is becoming a Democratic stronghold, Republicans are dramatically losing voters in the suburbs, and I could keep going on and on."

But the whole thing is good (for folks who are interested in such things).

{{Beverly}} {{{Matt}}}

Extreme puppy cuteness!

Ded!

Also, someone asked about the sound issue somewhere above -- the owners have said that they turn off the sound, sometimes. I would guess that sometimes they're home and talking to each other and not wanting that broadcast.

Beverly and Matt, I'm sorry for your losses.

secularizing 'creatives'

Is this what I am?