The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it. My comments on what happened in thread #1 are here.

Hello to all of you here on the vine. I have not been here for over a month, my Mike was getting a little tired of my ranting about the "vine". I took some time to think about why I came here and what I wanted to do.

So apparently Obama is a weak president and disrespectful president because he bowed the the emperor of Japan. What?! This is Japan we're talking about! Have any of you even been to the east? Bowing is a sign of respect for others.

Sarah Palin's new book called Going Rogue more accurately should be called I'm a Whiner. When Sarah Palin entered the national political arena, she struck me as different, refreshing, and a really out of the box choice on the part of Republican national candidate John McCain.

For a research paper that's worth 30% of my final grade in my Argument and Research course, I interviewed several companies on their use of social media. My most enjoyable interview was the phone interview I conducted with Verizon.

Somewhere out there, there's a picture of me naked. It's a Polaroid shot taken with an instant camera (y'know, back when cameras needed film). I'm lying on a bed, wearing nothing but me birthday suit.

When Canada's transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week.

The curse of Friday the 13th struck Bruce Springsteen in a most unusual way: it made the 60-year-old rock legend forget where he was.

"I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." (SC Justice Potter Stewart)

Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.

Unlike the immersive social network games making all the news and money these days, you don’t need any special skills to build a one-off Facebook quiz. And it shows. America’s favorite social networking site is chock full of homemade quizzes with the kind of egregious spelling and grammatical errors that would make your fifth-grade language arts teacher positively apoplectic.

- Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, officials said Friday.

My daughter had a dental appointment this past Tuesday. She had to get a couple of fillings, so I kept her out all day. I called the school and let them know that she wouldn't be there; unfortunately, I forgot to send a note with her when she went back.

In an interview with SkyNews Australia, Rupert Murdoch continued to insist that Google (and other search engines) are "stealing" his content and that newspapers should never have "given away" their content for free. And he hinted that News Corp.

I came back from the Pacific Theater in 1972 to the jeers and insults of my peers. I was not alone, the C-130 was full of military personnel, and we had to brave a gauntlet of protesters to get our luggage. I took a great deal of the ire simply because I was female.