My wife, for better or for worse, lives the life C. Tennis seems to wish for. I'm a pilot, and the way it must be is for me to be home 2 to 4 days a week and gone the rest of the time. There is no way around it. Of course phone calls and e-mails and Skype fill in the gaps for what they are worth.

Good luck.

Here's how I did it: I wasn't interested in how he got into jail, so I just skipped that part until I could see something about prison life. I thought the story and writing were engaging enough to finish the article. Then I read 5 pages of letters sorted oldest first.

This man did not threaten the safety of the flight. So you should feel good about that at least.

I'm always amazed that most people can't seem to separate a stranger who rails at you from a close relative or friend doing the same thing. That is why the guy at the carnival that insults strangers gets people to pay money to throw wet sponges at his face.

Silly strangers behaving badly need to be made use of... as entertainment. What's he gonna say next??? Look at what he just did!!! What a goofball! Isn't he silly? Should I offer a comment? Suggestion? Or would that make me one of the actors in this piece? Whenever I hear a ruckus at the airport I just hafta go see. For the people being yelled at, they need to find a way to deal or another job.

Enough about that. The slice of very recent English prison life was very interesting and well written.

What got to me was that he was being detained, which I am glad about, but in a real prison that is indistinguishable from one full of convicts. That is not right.

My feeling is that prison is for punishment after you've been convicted. Not before. The English rules for bail seem just as silly as all of those other silly things about the UK. But he just needed to be detained, not punished.

I think that anyone who would like to work at or run a prison should be immediately disqualified. In a civilized world the punishment should be the time served and the freedom lifted from you, not judge and jury wardens or "squeeks" or whatever silly English term was used who can willy nilly pile more misery on top of you whenever they wish.

The vast no. of the mean, brutish, Salon reading (no less) letter writers who felt he deserved what he got show how badly diseased our culture is. It's probably always been that way. Look at who we vote for.

Whether the writer was telling all of the truth about the horrible adventure he had was called into question near the end when he opted to stay out his term for a week and a half more.

I'm going back to sleep.

"Blank might be the most important living blank you've never heard of."

Steve Paulson,

That one's been done to death. It even smells a bit. Like a mummy.

Reagan was just an amateur level tele-prompt-er reader who dyed his hair and spokesman for whatever his cabinet and the republic party wanted him to say. He appointed party hacks to the important posts and just plain idiots of the newly exploited religious right wing pals of the right to what were perceived as useless posts (i.e. James Watt).

I still hear people recall his, "Well..... There you go again." line in the debates as signs of a real genius under the black dye. When drivel like that passes for smarts, we deserve what we get.

What an embarrassing,horrible president. Don't you recall? I do.

Bling! Bling! originally comes from the sound that Sonic the Hedgehog makes when he collects gold rings from the Sega video game in the early 90's.

Being a subscriber to Salon, a publication I respect, please stop with equating "carbon" to CO2. Hell, if carbon was what was in the upper atmosphere, in the form of soot, it would actually help fight global warming by blocking sunlight from reaching the surface of terra firma. It's not like that is going to happen anytime soon, though. Is it too hard to write "carbon dioxide?"

To repeat. It's not "carbon" that's causing the global warming problem. The problem is caused by CO2, one of the gasses released by burning fossil fuels that used to be sequestered for a very long time under the ground in the form of hydrocarbons. Burning up a tree releases much "younger" CO2 that for the most part, can't be blamed for an upset in the balance of gasses in the atmosphere.

Good article otherwise.

I'm a black coffee drinker. Started drinking only 7 years ago. I'll take the good with the so-so but not the bad. I'm a huge fan of the taste of that "from concentrate" Douwe-Egbert's brand coffee. I don't care what anybody else says; I rarely taste anything better.