If you're so razor-smart yourself, Damian, why is it you don't know the difference between "then" and "than" in *the first friggin' sentence of your post*?

Glass houses and stones, pal.

I am so damn sick of you right-wing morons. Do you have *any idea* how badly the Republicans you keep voting into office are sodomizing the country? They don't care about you unless you make more than $250,000 a year. If you don't make that much, and you vote Republican, *you are a moron*, pure and simple. And I am tired of *you* sticking me with *your* crappy elected representatives.

Yup, liberals are smarter than you. Because they don't vote for people who turn right around and screw them over. That's what *your* *Republican* "elected Representatives" do. *All the time*.

Moron.

BIFF,

Your first point is taken, BIFF, and the offending typo has been corrected. Thank you, BIFF.

BIFF, I believe Ms. Maddow would have the grace to acknowledge her mistake were she made aware of it. The typo in "*the first friggin' sentence*" of my post doesn't change her being wrong, but, BIFF, I take your miff to heart, because, BIFF, in this instance you are correct, which, one imagines, is something of a red letter day in your embarrassingly unhappy life.

BIFF, unlike Ms. Maddow my typo appeared only once. However, BIFF, my single error, like Ms. Maddow's repeated error, slipped through similar layers and layers of checkers. The blog producers, writers, researchers, news department, proofreaders, and our legions of underpaid interns have all been reprimanded. Some staff are scarred for life by the mortification. One producer simply went mad when the error was pointed out. The editor has taken early retirement. The proofreaders have been fired en masse. None of this, of course, can atone for the stomach-churning disgust you experienced at finding an error in "*the first friggin' sentence*" of the post.

Of course, BIFF, Ms. Maddow's error and mine are not of a kind. I am not being falsely modest, BIFF, in saying that Ms. Maddow has made the superior error. Judging by your anguish at my puny typo in a low-traffic blog, BIFF, I shudder to think of the splenic horrors Ms. Maddow's nationally broadcast errors have caused you.

BIFF, I sincerely hope with time -- and possibly counseling, or possibly a regimen of high colonics -- you can find the equanimity, nowhere in evidence here, that normal people possess when confronting something bigger than a typo.

Now, BIFF, as for the rest of your post, let's begin with the obvious. BIFF, you don't grasp oppositional politics. When you are stuck with "crappy elected representatives" not to your taste, BIFF, it is because your predilected candidates have lost the vote. They have lost the vote, BIFF, because not enough like-minded super creatures -- such as yourself -- can muster a majority. It's all so unfair, BIFF! Why can't you have everything your way, BIFF? Why, why, BIFF, cannot your single vote be a supermajority of one?

Here's a sad fact of life, BIFF, morbid infatuated crybabyitis has never elected a candidate nor advanced a cause nor won an argument.

Of course with only a typo supporting your high perch, you are not here to argue politics, BIFF. You are here to proselytize religion, your religion, BIFF, a religion of simple absolutes and pure-and-simples. Or perhaps, BIFF, you are here to put us to the sword. It's hard to tell, BIFF, from your spew.

And what's with the asterisks, BIFF? Are they meant to represent your temples popping, BIFF? Are they muscae volitantes racing across your inflamed eyeballs, BIFF? Are you having a seizure, BIFF?

Gee, thanks for dropping by, BIFF. It's not everyday a donkey -- such as yourself -- entertains us with a display of superior intellect.

DGB