Echinacea and golden seal.

2,000 mcg of vitamin C three times a day

Chicken soup with tons of fresh ginger and garlic.

Meg Whitman drove HP into the ground, and is the reason I’ll never buy an HP product, again, ever.

I bought my first HP computer (for $1,000, the most I’d ever spent on a laptop) during Whitman’s tenure.

It died in 3 months, and I sent it back to the company to be repaired — and waited three months. Well, I didn’t wait, so much as call endlessly for the last two months begging and screaming to get my laptop back.

Finally, dozens of hours on the phone later, I was sent a “replacement” laptop — which died a month later.

At which point, I handed it to my disabled neighbor to do with what he could, and bought a Dell.

When I went to tell the clerk of the store I’d bought an HP from, he admitted that they’d finally gotten a notification from HP, in the back in small type, that 6 months of that particular run of computers were defective.

Thanks, Meg. Oh and the shareholders got to thank her for driving the stock down, too.

I’ve only lived progressive politics for, oh, 40 years.

I’ve watched the Naderites and Greens elect Republicans, with the help of the Democratic voters who who claimed there was no difference between Gore and Bush, elect Bush.

If you believe there would have been no difference between a Bush and Gore presidency, you’re delusional.

As well as ignoring a century of U.S. history: the recessions and depressions that inevitably followed Republican administrations, which were alleviated by Democratic administrations.

And Nader helped!

I can’t believe that at this late date, when third parties have inevitably help elect either the Republican (or, rarely, Democrat) there are still Nader apologists and “Greens” who persist in electing the party whose policies they claim to most despise.

Defogger, translation: “austerity” = garage sale for the ultra-wealthy?

I’m no economist, and I’m sure this is too simplistic, but my own private theory is that recessions (and depressions) are rigged so the top 1% can buy everything (including government) at garage sale prices.

More seriously, I echo #49:

How likely is it that post-election 2012, privatizing Social Security, cutting benefits, is embraced, no matter who is elected?

Fifty years ago, when there was no sex ed in our public school (but plenty of pregnant teenagers) and the Biology teacher pointedly ignored the chapter on Evolution, we girls got our only info on the menstrual process (along with the only sketches of uteri we would see) thru a slide show (and free booklets from Tampax), at a Girl Scout meeting.

Pretty much the only info on how our female bodies worked, at that point.

I guess times haven’t changed that much.

If the catholic bishops had only known, I’m sure it would have been lectured against from the pulpit, then, too.

I know a middle-aged woman, university professional whose benefits are ending.

She’s applied to everything in her field — and out of it — for over 70 weeks, including dogwalker and temp worker.

It’s a waste of talent, and humanity, when she’ll go homeless.

On the bright side, Graham doesn’t have long before God (or Satan) is setting him straight (so to speak) on his sins.

Good luck with that pitchfork, Billy!

Why not for fresh fruits and vegetables, too?

Apparently, two years is the new Friedman unit.

Odd, isn’t it, how if you ignore the real concerns of a constituency for several years, they’re just not fired up to turn out at the voting booth.

Because Muslims and Jews care about mangers?

They may care about vaginas, but I doubt they give crap one about the combo.

I disagree, no one gay would sport that haircut.

Met a Canadian who works in the oil industry: everyone is hiring already for Keystone.

It’s all over but for the shouting.

Saw some pink ribbon products at the 99 cent only store today.

Which means some company is doing product dumping, rather than selling their pink ribbon embossed product through usual channels.

From what I’ve read, this bill will also forestall medically-necessary abortions — when the health and life of the mother or the fetus is at stake.

There’s a set of testing at 20 weeks for fetal abnormalities, this new cut off at 18 weeks strands women whose pregnancies have gone wrong on the side with no medically needed healthcare, if that healthcare includes abortion.

Don’t worry, there will be some setback to human rights the Obama administration wants cover for, or some major financial shenanigan — like cutting Social Security and Medicare to shreds — and Obama will sign ENDA then for the reverse publicity.