Oh, that's right. "momquat" doesn't have any other letters.

Sock puppet, anyone?

Not that you deserve an answer to your ignorant and uninformed first attempt, but let me address your concerns "momquat."

"the world is in this kind of shape and Opus and Breathed are what Gary finds to complain about??"

You could say that about any letter on any topic here on Salon. And "the world is in this kind of shape" is exactly what I'm talking about. Did you read the first three of my letters here today?

"I can think of a thousand more deserving topics and certainly more deserving individuals than Berke Breathed."

Then you are more than welcome to write letters about what ever particular topic you like. By your own lights, surely you can think of a thousand more deserving topics than getting on my ass about what I write.

Why don't you write something instead of just complaining about me?

Washington, D.C. - American Forces Press Service - infoZine - Garry Trudeau wrote the book, "The War Within: One More Step at a Time," as a follow-up to his book, "The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time," which tells the story of comic strip character "B.D.," a National Guardsman who lost his leg during the battle of Fallujah in Iraq and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The second book follows B.D.'s return to civilian and family life after leaving the hospital and his process of dealing with his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Trudeau said he's putting together these books, which are really a compilation of his comic strips, as a way to bring the war home to Americans, many of whom may not know any servicemembers or understand the sacrifices they're making.

"America in general has not been asked to sacrifice much for this particular war," Trudeau said. "Their world has nothing to do with the military world. I think it's important, if you're given a platform that I've been given, to try to bring those two worlds together and say, 'Look, these guys are making some pretty heavy sacrifices and contributions in our name, and we should know a little bit more about them.'"

Trudeau was encouraged to publish the books by the Fisher House Foundation, to which he is donating all the proceeds from these books. The foundation operates 34 Fisher Houses in the U.S. and Germany on the grounds of military and veterans hospitals. The houses give family members a place to live and be close to loved ones while they are hospitalized for an injury, illness or disease.

than groveling for a buck.

This just in:

Tony Blair converts to Catholicism, abandons Church of England.

Now that he is safely out of power, he can reveal his inner-most Christian foolery without fearing the hoots and catcalls of the back-benchers.

This from the Wires:

"Earlier this year, Blair told the British Broadcasting Corp. that he had avoided talking about his religious views while in office for about 10 years for fear of being labeled "a nutter."

Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of strategy and communications, once intervened in an interview, preventing the prime minister from answering a question about his Christianity, saying, "We don't do God"."

Ah yes. We don't do God.

If only we could be as wise.

Old is what you get if you don't die. No boomer had any control over the time or place of his/her birth. Hindsight is always perfect. If you are in your 20s and you are bitching about "Boomers" and all they have left for you to clean up, then get busy because your kids and grandkids are going to shit all over your accomplishments or lack thereof, the same as you want to do with the Boomers. What goes around, ... well you know.

Bony Maroni

Well I've got an angel named Bony Maroni

He's got the answers, all the others are the phonies

You ought to see him flying 'round with his bedsheet on

He's a real cool angel man he's never wrong

Well, he came to Joe Smith in a big wet dream

he showed him where the tablets was nobody'd ever seen

But then they vanished in the middle of the night

Joe said he read 'em and you better believe

Now he's got a new religion and it's better than yours

You can have as many women as you need to do your chores

But you better do your homework and you better keep pace

You got to keep them women pregnant to preserve the white race

The Angel Moroni came down again in '85

He told the nearest saint that they needed to get wise

Blacks ain't the children of Cane no more, now they's good and clean

We need about a dozen for the BYU basketball team!

So that's not half the story, I only wish it were

'Cuz I haven't even told you 'bout the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Willard Romney loves to show his shiny teeth and hair

what he doesn't want to show you is his holy underwear.

Wait until reporters start talking about his gastric bypass surgery. "The first president to get his stomach stapled."

What's next, a penile implant?

If you go to the right of the screen today, in the "From The Wires" section, you will find this heartbreaking story of a suicide in Iraq.

She's got me. And I do it for free. You can't beat that.

No wait. He can't do that. Then he'd have to acknowledge that the REAL workers at Ground Zero have REAL health problems and he doesn't want to pay for their recovery.

Guess it's just going to be the flu.

He can dish it out, but he can't take it.

Jesus loves you more than mo-ja-dos, yeah yeah yeah