" . . . most pressing concern every day is not to write a kick-ass story but stay alive . . . "

Totally awesome.

who is Obama anyway?

he's my new senator, douchebag......his wife is hot too......i dont think the dems should try and run him tho....hilary neither......i think we fucked in 2008 at this point too

and, the maps about the nuclear blasts on that website all depend on the wind......if a backpack nuke went off downtown, people in tenleytown would prolly die a couple days later from radiation poisoning unless a strong wind blew it away....personally, i'd rather be in the complete destruction zone

That first letter is thoroughly...thoroughly depressing. But it also holds a lot of power in it. I want to make copies of it, rent a plane, and fly all over the towns of middle America and drop it from the sky. Of course I would also invent a time machine in which this could have been done a week ago.

skipped the letter the first time around, but it is indeed depressing...i am hesitant to immediately condemn the iraq war...if we can make democracy work there, it will be a great victory...the only problem is that for democracy to work there, them arabs need to realize that the seperation of church and state is key...im not sure they are ready to accept this...then again, if we do make democracy work there im not so sure it was worth the loss of life

you know, I wonder what the deal is with black people not bending in their baseball caps and wearing them so that they look as new as possible.i wonder if obama does that too. but secretly.

there's probably too many people who straight-up hate hilary for her to be a viable candidate. and obama won't have enough experience to run in '08 (especially considering the campaign for the nomination will start in '06). bill richardson gets mentioned a lot as a possible candidate, but i don't really know much about him.

hopefully the GOP will have as much trouble picking a candidate as we do. i think the really scary possibilities, though, are mccain and giuliani, who seem to be the major republican figures most likely to draw broad support from democrats.

well, they're not divisive figures, that's for sure. but, you've always got to consider the game the candidate will have to play not only with the essential middle but with his own party. Howard Dean's campaign for the nomination failed largely because he spooked the more timid element in the Democratic party which saw him as too radical and too easily discredited by republicans. in the same way too, pro-guncontrol, pro-choice guiliani will have to deal with criticisms from his right, especially the socially conservative voters whom I expect any future Republican campaign to exploit even more zealously. so, in other words, I think it's going to be Frist.

one thing about frist is that the republican bigwigs, what with their down-home anti-washington rhetoric, will probably be mindful that it's been more than forty years since a sitting senator was elected president.

My dad sent me that letter about a month ago, but it ended differently with a disclaimer from Tikkun (the magazine where it was initially published) casting doubt on the veracity of the information included in the letter. My dad only confirmed it by talking to his friends at the WSJ. Did the author, or the WSJ confirm its authenticity to the public yet?

tis true, according to Editor and Publisher and a bunch of other sources if you google it. Here's one of the first results- [http://feed.proteinos.com/002292.html]