Like one of the other respondents, in the fall/winter I also rarely bathe daily -- more like 3 or 4 times a week. I use this bathing schedule partly because I have very, very dry skin and don't like the itchy feeling I get October-February if I bathe daily. Even applications of skin moisturizer don't completely eliminate the itchy feeling. I also don't bathe daily during the colder months because there is really no need to do so. Even in Northern CA it rarely gets over 60 degrees, I'm not out plowing fields, and I do wash my face and hands regulary and use deoderant. I don't smell and no one complains. So the other respondent who wrote, "Fine, stink!" is just being a fussy piss-ant.

Of course I compensate by sometimes taking 2 showers a day in August, when the heat here in Sacramento often tops 100 degrees.

I bathe according to need -- not custom.

I'm somewhat appalled that as part of the new "men are the new women" television season, the shows focus on all the stereotypical negatives of our gender (i.e., women's, for those of you who were home-schooled and don't catch on as quickly).

In these shows the men-who-are-now-women are are jealous of others' success, not good at backing down when confronted, and manipulative sexually and in the workplace. This makes them women?

I have always liked men, but with the exception of a small lapse in my twenties, never wanted to live with one. And after hearing about these new shows that supposedly mirror the new heterosexual reality, thank God I discovered at age 25 that I am a lesbian....! And once-cute Billy Baldwin doing a tranvestite? That's just damn SCARY.

When I was in college at CSU Sacramento, back when dinosaurs walked the earth (well, Reagan was President, so we also had one in office) the SAE house was notorious for being the drunkest and lamest of all the Greek brethren, so it doesn't surprise me that they are the frat promoting this "for breast research."

If they REALLY want to increase their revenue totals for "breast cancer research," they should expand their tailgating parties tour and not just limit it to college campuses. The parking lots at Hooters bar/restaurants across the nation would be a perfect place for all the world to see plastic mammaries that jiggle to the tune of "Beer and Titties." Think of it...along with the plastic breasts and cocktails, you could get wings and potato skins! Who could ask for anything more???

Kudos on you coming to your senses and giving a glow-a-thon mention to one of the weirdest yet entertaining "crime-y" show on basic cable, "Burn Notice." How can you not love a show where the ex-girlfriend is trigger-happy and manic and the Mom is played by a not-so-frowsy-looking Sharon Gless? (As opposed to her fright-wig-scary appearances in "Queer As Folk.")

And YOUR mom used to lean out the bar door and scream, "Keep crying, you big crybaby!" ??? I thought it was only MINE who did that....

In journalism school I had a great teacher named Bill Dorman. If he had a dent in his head we couldn't have seen it, because of the wild crazy curly hair he had. (It was the late 1970's/early 1980's.... time of "White Guy Afros.")

He also -- while a former Berkeley radical instead of an ex-Marine -- used to urge us to do our best, and would call us on it when we didn't.

Once, when the front page of the student paper, the State Hornet, ran without any headlines because (I think) we were too drunk late that production night to notice, he held it up in his War Peace, and Mass Media class (which most of the Hornet staff took) the next day. "Okay... what's wrong with this picture?" and followed it with "I know that this is supposed to be a learning experience but do you have to learn from a new mistake EVERY ISSUE?"

He also would write sardonic little asides in our margins. My two favorites were: "B.S. is no substitute for brilliance." and "YOU can do better than this." His way of letting me know he thought I was talented, and that I should live up to his view of me.

I miss Bill.....no one else could give you a kick in the ass with so much affection.

--Stacy Selmants

I watched in horror as the Katrina disaster unfolded 2 years ago. I also watched because I grew up in and still live in Sacramento, which has been identified (with two rivers running through the city and with levees keeping the water back that are about as strong as styrofoam) as the one city in the nation most likely to suffer the same kind of devastation, should a huge series of storms hit. We don't get hurricanes here, but most of the older parts of the city are built 10 feet off street level --with basements -- because we have always had a history of floods.

Luckily, most of the more flood prone areas of Sacramento are not areas -- unlike the 9th Ward -- that are largely populated by minorities. So if such an event occurs, we probably won't have to wait as long for FEMA to provide some relief. Plus Schwartzenengger's star power also would help to expedite the relief effort. A sad day when you have to rely on "The Terminator" to save you from drowning.....!