best band for a couple of years? while subjective, anointing "the best band" is akin to egotistically lauding your own taste, which to others may be dubious at best.

I thought it was interesting how Olmert (Israeli PM) was all over American TV doing direct interviews the day Israel invaded Gaza. Can you imagine another PM from another country doing the same thing the first day of a conflict? Seems unlikely.

Walmart has destroyed countless small businesses and replaced them with low paying warehouses selling cheap ass plastic crap. And of course, much of it was made possible by Clinton making China trading partner #1...enabling the Chinese to sell pure crap here at low prices, putting US industry/suppliers out of business and hurting the average worker,... but satisfying the consumer demand for more shit that we don't need and exponentially increasing the profit margins of big import companies and banks...and in effect, widening the gap between rich and poor all the while utilizing PR to convince us that we are oh so happy with our latest purchase.
QM, you are a serious idiot, but at least your pathetic drivel is funny.

Bristol. Piper. Track. Willow. Trig
After 5 kids and a moral certitude against contraception, Sarah Palin now only takes it in the ass, with the occasional facial.

QM, Oil, regardless of environmental impact, is not a long-term solution. Exploration and drilling is a long process, and the relative depth and scarcity here make it a very expensive process...which is why we import it. And, as oil resources are depleted, too much in the way of this nation's disappearing wealth is used to secure those resources (see Iraq) not to mention the f-ing chaos that ensues.
we are all addicted to oil. It is the reality that we know.

more please.

Poisonous sound bite? That would be Rev. Wright - and he's right regardless of context. We are the most militant country in the world, by far. Done by psychological massage - You grow up conditioned to think that tanks and bombs and guns and fighter jets are cool. It's burned into your psyche.

Religion, and it's current state, ironically, is just a step in evolution - that being the evolution of human thought. We'll be done with it someday, but that day won't be in our lifetime. Still, in order to move on, it is necessary to assail the foolishness of dogma and 'faith'.
And no, "getting rid" of religion won't solve the world's problems, as religion itself has been constructed by the human psyche, with it's tendency towards "security" and the need of correctness. Hence evolution of consciousness is the key...but such evolution can only be carried on by serious inquiry into ourselves - ie what we commonly accept without thought and has been conditioned into us.

Anyone notice that she was "touring" Bosnia. It wasn't only ONE stop. So, ask the obvious question, was there another stop in Bosnia where she was in some sort of danger?
not that i'm a hillary fan, it's just duh...