If there is one argument that adds nothing to the abortion debate and in fact is a plus for net stupidity in this world, it is the argument that one side or another of the abortion debate doesn't understand some aspect of the question.

Don't insult my intelligence. Women have been having babies for millennia. Everyone knows what a mother is, and what motherhood entails. This article is an incredibly naive exploration that suggests our generation, and our generation alone, knows what it means to be a woman.

Ms. Kissling, if you want to have your abortions, go right ahead. But stop saying that the other side is stupid because it doesn't agree with you. Sit down, shut up, and let people who make sense continue the discussion.

So you pick one person, or maybe a handful of people, and generalize their opinions to every single pro-Life individual in America.

Where I come from, this is called prejudice. To pre-judge.

In the pro-life community, there was a great deal of consternation about the death of Tiller. First, we see it as committing a moral wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Second, as many pro-lifers have written and said (if somebody would bother to check the facts), Tiller's death is a big setback for the pro-life community. We all realized when he died that the pro-choice community would rally behind this and accuse pro-lifers of being complicit in the act. Which is exactly what has happened.

If you say the pro-life community didn't condemn the murder of Paul Tiller, you haven't been paying attention. If you say the condemnation of that act was perfunctory, then you are claiming to know what other people think, which you don't.

The great thing about these bits is that they are unassailable. Like Tina Fey's portrayals of Palin, the Shatner act uses her exact words. And she looks like a twit anyway.

Attacking Palin does no good because she always uses the pathetic "the lying media is persecuting me" argument in response. This is better. Let her slay herself.

People forget that Edward R. Murrow brought down McCarthy not by criticizing him, but by quoting him at length. The worst ones always hang themselves, if you give them enough time.

They say when a large tree dies it can take it years to stop showing signs of life. Leaves still grow for a few seasons on a dying tree. The tree is dead, but doesn't know it yet.

Same with Rush. No one below the age of 30 is buying this reverse discrimination claptrap. And most of us over 30 aren't buying it either. Rush is selling to a dying breed of diehard race supremacists.

(It's no coincidence that the attack at the Holocaust Museum last month was carried out by an octogenarian.)

When he took this path, he lost the young people, and he won't get them back. I think Rush reached his zenith early this year when many identified him as the head of the GOP. Since then, he has spiraled ever more deeply into irrelevance.

Trust me, the man has no pulse.

is because you learn something about what goes into your mouth. We live in a country were millions of people eat nothing but trash. And healthwise, we pay the price for it. People in the 60s weighed on average 20 pounds less than we do now.

I'm not saying every American needs to be a French chef. But we all could stand to know at least as much about food as we do about civics, or the medicine we take every day, for example. It's just as important.

There is something disturbing about the idea of living in a country where the average person doesn't know what butter is made of, or what ingredients make up a loaf of bread. I'm sure Kate Harding would frown at a person who read her article and said, "Betty Friedan? Who's that?" Yet it's OK to look at a McDonald's apple pie and down it without the slightest clue what it is made of and how someone might go about making it.

Food is one of the essential ingredients of life. We can't live without it. Why is it somehow demeaning to women to expect people to know a little about a process (cooking) that we absolutely can't live without?

Guantanamo is a terribly complex matter, made worse by Obama's lack of backbone in getting it closed. Instead of stepping up and ending the matter he has gotten himself in a quagmire, partly of his own making. Why should Greg Craig hang for that?

The one thing GW Bush had going for him was that he stuck by his people past all reason. Look at how long Rumsfeld stayed in office, despite howling opposition from all sides.

Clinton, on the other hand, made the huge mistake of cutting bait with every appointment that drew any kind of conservative ire. That approach greatly weakened his presidency.

Obama needs to be careful. If people on the hill start to get the idea that they can get someone fired by simply pitching a hissy, we are in for a long 4 years.

.....and it's called generics. Big Pharma doesn't have as many irreplaceable brand drugs any more. In fact, I'd go so far as to say 70% of all prescribed medications could be generics, if doctors simply paid attention to the cost of prescriptions.

Unfortunately, getting doctors to pay attention to medication cost is going to take some work, but doctors are coming around to the idea that Big Pharma marketing has a negative influence on medicine. Note the new restrictions on drug reps giving away pens and other goodies with the drug logo on it. Some hospitals, let by the teaching centers, are kicking reps out entirely.

Doctors need to understand that the less money spent on brand drugs, the more left over in the system for doctors' fees. Once docs understand that, the battle is half over.