how many comebacks did frank sinatra have?

seems like the cable network is a great professional move.

oprah's show is not my cup of tea at all, but i appreciate the phenom.

best replacement would be someone as fresh and real as she was back in 84/85, maybe someone no one knows yet.

please not the palin.

from time to time, and i think the little ones there are adorable. they radiate a delightful curiosity. hats off to their moms and dads.

Obama damn near lost the Illinois US Senate primary in 2004 because the leading opponent put out literature saying he was anti-choice. At our township democratic office, the phones were ringing off the hook over that, but we put out the fire, and he won. You're welcome, Mr. President.

Thank you, Ms. Kissling, for another informative and courageous article. I admire both you and Rep. DeLauro, and it was good to read of your meeting. I will remain hopeful about the Progressive and Pro-Choice caucuses (as in "Hope for the best, expect the worst" ~ Mel Brooks, The Thirteen Chairs).

The same (or similar) revolting and offensive oversized Holocaust concentration camp poster seen at last Thursday's Michele Bachmann anti-health-law rally and that has rightly been condemned was beside the route at the 2004 March For Women's Lives. I wish it had gotten the same notice then, but that 1.5 million march barely got covered.

In the last year news articles mentioned that for the first time there were more Catholics than Anglicans in England. (Or was it more Catholics than Protestants, and was it England or Britain? And was it more self-identified Catholics, or more regular Catholic worshippers?)

This was around the time Tony Blair became Catholic, IIRC.

In any case, evidently England was already trending Catholic.

Does that have any bearing on this latest move of the pope?

Just curious.

...someone calls the doctor "Doctor."

fair enough, but the same impulse behind this special commentary drove Olbermann to loudly stand up to the Bush adminstration, from the early days on.

so of course he may be sanctimonious or bloviating at times.

but mostly he's right on.

he's got guts, and i thank him for it.

i love the acorn hats

many thanks!

I'm a fan of Coop, and I appreciate this essay's main point. But I also can't forget that Gary Cooper cosponsored Hollywood paramilitary groups, was a founder of the pro-blacklist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, and willingly testified before HUAC (although he appears nervous and paranoid) about subversion in movie scripts.

i love my iPod touch ~ the music, the podcasts, the apps, the size, how well it works, how easy and clear Apple help is, you name it.

i also love having a product with youth appeal, b/c i can get away with dropping it, and it doesn't miss a beat.

in my day, you dropped the shampoo, the bottle broke, you dropped the milk, the bottle broke, you vacuumed over the cord, the vacuum broke, so i still try to be careful. i would never expect something not to break, so iPod's sturdiness is icing.

read that in a pamphlet from a funeral home.

helps me, anyway.

a poster implies that we all will absolutely like angelina jolie better than meryl streep because jolie is prettier.

why these absolutes? why would it be the same for everyone?

if more older women actresses had more roles, no one would force you to watch their movies. there isn't one less angelina jolie movie in the world because there is one more meryl streep movies. relax!

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really enjoyed this interview. a fascinating actress and a wise woman.

didn't know that was going to happen to joan!

only just now doing mad men #2 on netflix...

i agree with Mr Servo ~ keep spoilers out of the headlines! would you do that with a year-old movie? or a classic for that matter?

i wasn't even reading Salon when I saw the headline ~ it popped up via a news article link from the salon AP feed.

When Obama was campaigning early on in the presidential primary, Salon letter writers largely said he could make a good speech but had no real legislative or policy accomplishments. (This ignored his record in Illinois.)

So now, when he lets his inner wonk emerge and gives a press conference that deals with nuts and bolts, everyone says it was too boring, why didn't he make a better speech.

I thought it was an informative press conference. I don't expect the president to be a performer entertaining me (although frankly I found it all very interesting). I had not heard it all before. He seemed "alive" the whole time. What are you even talking about? The spin is nasty (I don't mean here, I mean what I've learned from some letters here is being said elsewhere). Boy, those media corporations want their own kind of guy back in office, don't they?

The president is working his ass off to fix huge problems. He's helping all of us. Or trying. Grow up. Don't expect to get your way on every point. Participate ~ or not. But at least show some respect.

Have not watched daytime soaps but do appreciate the phenomenon. Ditto this great behind-the-scenes glimpse. And since when is 2 million not a lot of viewers? Gee whiz.

Thank you and good luck, to the author and the bereft viewers!