If it's all about bashing America -- or so you think -- then perhaps I might point out that I'm an American, as are (I believe) DowneastDem, slaboymni, Robert (rdf), and Chris.  Migeru earned his PhD from the University of California, if I'm not mistaken.  Jerome is a big name at Daily Kos (the largest American political blog on the web).  Where is the anti-Americanism?  I'd like to think that, as an American who loves what his country is supposed to stand for, I can decide for myself what anti-Americanism looks like, thank you.

And who is "that Polish lass"?

And am I the only one who thought Jerome's comment, about London and Paris being off-limits to the girlfriends of Russian big bosses, was incredibly funny?  So this is what Rifkin meant by "waging peace" in The European Dream.

I'm not going to jump into a fight over London, Paris and Moscow, except to say that, if you want to get into a debate on which cities are on a higher level than others, you may want to avoid bringing up Moscow, where the murder rate is three times that of London.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin