Ed Aycock wrote: Rob, you old contrarian, you know her personally?  You know she was joking? "Your experience" ... were you EIC of Playgirl as well? And give me a break with the whole oppressed Reoublican in New York bit.  I live and work in New York and my office skews overwhelmingly to the Right.  It's hardly a climate of fear.  You speak before you think.  If I were a magazine publisher and an editor institutes sweeping changes that completely change a magazine and it's so unsuccessful that sales drop tremendously, yeah I'd fire them too. Business sense.

HeyI said in my first post that she may be terrible who knows.

But I know the horrified look on people's faces when you tell them you are a Reoublican and they live in the City.

It was fun, though the day after Election day walking around Brooklyn, big smile on my face, while the people I saw and talked to looked like someone had shot their moms.

Ouch Eric, ouch.  My surname has been a curse since the day I was born.  And the gay thing in addition? Call it cosmic laughter. The jokes started early and never stopped.  I have grown to find the whole thing really, really funny especially people's reactions when I tell them my name. (And it's a long "a" sound, the "y" is silent.)

And my three siblings who are straight have never been so fond of the name either. 

And to just make my humiliation complete, the middle name is Mallory. Once a noble surname, now co-opted to be a girl's first name.

Reagan I believe put the kibosh on the Soviet Union.  Obviously, he had help along the way.  But he predicted it, fought for it, and lo and behold it happened.  He deserves credit, although other Presidents do as well. (Well, except Jimmy Carter).

Record Surplus-most of that was actually an estimated surplus, the economy was falling down at the end of Clinton's term,a dn was artificially infalted by anm internet/tech boom that was doomed to fail eventually.

Plus, you know, he wasn't fighjting any wars, though, in retrospect, he obviously should have been doing something.

I give you once a party is in power, they might sopend differently, but they still spend.  Power tends to corrupt as they say*

*Plus some things have just become politically infeasible to cut.  Like farm subsidies.  Or other programs that might be wasteful.  "you want to kill the poor and eat them."