I can't believe he read that on the air. So awesome.

I think Olbermann likes being the anti-O'Reilly a bit too much. Tom Tomorrow is great, though.

As Mr. Wolf said, "let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet."

In the contest between Kieth Olberman and Bill O'Reilly, it's very difficult to determine who is the bigger douche. O'Reilly has a slight edge, but ONLY a slight edge.

off topic I know, but its not something thats commented on, but should be. Russian "elections" have just confirmed what many people feared, Putin's Russia is becoming a new Fascist state. Just like Nazi Germany, the Russian people felt victimized after the fall of the Soviets, now a strong authoritarian leader has emerged, one who favors a cult of personality, who has created a givernment sponsored youth movement run by thugs named Nashi (translate into "ours") Putin has now made it clear he intends to stay in power, and that the democracy experiment in Russia is officially over. This is the day hope for democracy died in Russia.

What will follow is likely conflict. Putin blames the west and espeecially the US for all of Russia's ills. he is also reconstituting the Russian military. With newfound economic wealth derived from oil, and his newfound control over a large part of Europe thanks again to oil, Putin may again begin a conflict with the Unites States. he is after all not just a dictator, he is also a former KGB agent, a man whose organization felt humiliated by Us victory in the cold war, and Putin wants revenge.

Conflict is coming.

yeah...slightly off topic there ...

I think Putin is way too smart to try to challenge the US militarily. He is building up the military, but probably so that it can avoid the miserable humiliation that it suffered in Chechnya. In those two wars the former Red Army showed that it couldn't beat a few thousand guerilla fighters except by leveling cities and all the civilians in them.

Russia is clearly an illiberal, one-party state. But it is still far from a fascist dictatorship. The party is not a teeming horde of wild-eyed fanatics, but a collection of mineral wealth oligarchs, former military people and security officers, along with quite a few ordinary Russians who have no aspirations for military conquest, but like the fact that the economic situation has improved a lot since Putin took office (mainly due to high energy prices).

The Nazi fascist regime had an ideological, radical party structure and one of the most powerful industrial economies in the world. Putin's Russia has neither of those. It has oil and gas, and that's about it.

Susceptor, have you considered maybe writing your own blog, and linking to it?

Heh, I should probably take my own advice on that sometime...

dende blogger, a citizen's life in Russia is not pleasant or easy, and never has been. Life for most in Germany after WWI was very difficult as well. Life in most Islamic countries is pretty miserable too.

Also note that all three situations involve an unchallengable, ruling elite mad with power: Shi'a clerics, Czars, politicians, beaurocrats, wealthy industrialists, etc.

Such conditions are incredibly fertile ground for "wild-eyed fanatics". Violent ideologies can spring up overnight, in any form, religious (ala jihadism) political (ala Soviet Communism) or just plain batshit.

Back on topic: I am glad that while selfish, rabid ideologues can frustrate people like Olbermann, they can't make him cold and serious like they are.

(Laughing idly about bombing Iran, or hundreds of thousands of dead brown-skinned people, doesn't count.)

Everyone should do their best to fight the agents of fear and slavery and death, but laugh at life's rediculousness, smile at the world's entropic beauty, when and while they can.

For that is how we won the great wars of long ago; by staying free and loving life, and not becoming cold and serious like our enemies.

Does O'Reilly advise against young males having phone sex or does he advise against condemning it?

seems to me his history suggests the latter.