A good wife decides what her husband's deepest needs are and fulfills them willingly. If he's a simple, kindly fellow, and likes food and sex best, she makes a good dinner and is always ready for sex. If, however, he is a self-contradictory nut, and can't make up his mind what his deepest need is, she eventually gives up in despair and dumps the guy.

A good husband takes an interest in his wife and children--he talks to them, not at them, and doesn't mind taking care of them--in fact, he likes it. If the wife and children spurn his care and are cavalier about his interest in them, then he, too, eventually walks out the door, and more power to him.

Either the good husband or the good wife can be the principal wage-earner, because neither the good husband nor the good wife wants to see his loved ones suffer. Good husband and good wife like to share. It's simple to understand, but hard to find...

When does McCain show up and do a debate or a "meetup" or whatever in front of a big lefty organization? Why does Obama go on their turf? He's using my money in the wrong way! Where are Obama's ads about McCain that show him as he really is--a lying, cheating, warmongering idiot? I WANT TO KNOW!

I went to a famous private school in the midwest. Most of our graduating class went to ivy league schools or Stanford. I hated the school and I have no respect for anyone who graduated with me. Some of them are rich, most of them have never done a thing except hang out in their home city. I vowed never to send my kids to private schools. I now live I a place with several famous private schools. The kids drive Jags to school and live with a profound sense of entitlement. I sent my kids to public schools. They've all done well and learned to get along in lots of circumstances and with lots of kinds of kids. BUt you have to make up your mind ahead of time. If you know you are going to use public schools, then you have to live somewhere where the public schools are good, which means that you have to plan. The information is out there.

One of my kids needed some help with learning skills--ADD and not very good hand coordination. The public schools in California were required to help him, and they have--because I live in a wealthy district! The private schools nearby wouldn't touch him with a pole, as they say. I guess they thought he was garbage in, so he would be garbage out. A GOOD public school is the best school. They exist. The private schools exist to continue the privileges of the privileged. They are no more interested in actually teaching your children something than any other schools, and they don't have to.

When my grandmother was 85 and living in St. Louis, Mo. (during the 19th century, STL was considered THE WORSE PLACE TO LIVE in all the the US, because of heat, humidity, and infection), she refused to have an air conditioner for fifty years. When a big heat wave hit in the 80s, my aunts bought her one, which she quietly gave away to the neighbors. She lived to be 97 and was a progressive all her life. So, I buy your thesis. At least for now.

She didn't reveal her pregnancy until she was seven months along, and then she gave birth six weeks later. What was she doing after the test for Downs syndrome proved positive? Making up her mind? That would be the natural thing to do, but if so, she can't claim pro-life credentials. Pre-lifers don't get to make up their minds. Their minds are made up for them. This is a woman who has spent years trying to have it both ways. McCain may win, but Palin is a nightmare no matter what.

Lots of questions about her that will go unanswered. That, maybe, was the point all along.

really worked in this case, didn't it?

This is not a private matter when your mother is the governor and advocates not teaching about or using birth control and when she supports abstinence only education. How far do we have to look for the evidence that this sort of sex education does not work? So she got pregnant. Mom apparently did not teach her how not to get pregnant. If Palin did not advocate certain positions with regard to sex education and women's bodies, then this would not be an issue.

Now I hope she is shamed, humiliated, and destroyed.

The best letter in this group is on page six, by "Mother Who Thinks". I suggest all of you pro"lifers" read it before you show your authoritarian colors by posting your black and white thoughts. Here's the real deal--at this point, the US can sort of afford to have a large population of children and adults with disabilities. Good for us. But that sort of prosperity is not necessarily going to last, and isn't available generally around the world. Human populations have been controlling their relationship to available resources by means of abortion and birth control forever, and will continue to do so, in spite of your individual beliefs. Other animals do the same thing, or nature does it for them. If I were to have a child (too old now) I would ask myself--does this child have a chance to survive in a troubled world? Once I am gone, and this child is on his own, is he going to suffer? Or, by indulging myself in "prolife" fantasies of virtue, am I setting him up for terror and pain that he himself cannot escape or relieve? Being prolife for others means accepting a social burden--you personally have to guarantee that you will support the children born during your prolife life who can't take care of themselves. Ready for that?