Is one fine-looking woman.

I wish I could listen to her video blog, but I just never have the opportunity. I can't do it at work (hardly anybody has a job where they could). And at home, I'd be bugged by my kids with, "What's that, Daddy?" and have to give a long explanation, or by my wife with, "WHO . . . is that woman?" (dripping female venom voice).

Now it's 10:30 p.m. and everyone is asleep. I don't want to wake them. So again, I can't view it.

Am I unusual in being unwilling and unable to view a video blog? Judging from the commenters here, no.

P.S. Tracy IS a fine looking woman though!

Russert lets a Republican off easy. The only tough questions were the meaningless horse-race questions as to how his campaign will do.

Adolf Hitler could go on that show and Russert's idea of a tough question would be, "Do you REALLY expect to make significant inroads into the conservative Protestant vote?"

It took a lot of courage for her to write it and I don't understand the venom directed at her in these comments, unless it's the fourth grade version of flirting.

Breast size is harder to deal with than, say, penis size because breasts are always "out there". But both are things that men obsess about. An obsession that ends once one single fact is given. So I would be a little more forgiving of the guy who asked her her bra size. Just tell him, O.K.? That will allow his mind to get on to other things. For some reason the author has a mental block about it and won't even tell us when she found out what her true size was.

The same with penis size (something most women don't care about). All males should have their penises measured, and then the size tattooed on their foreheads. That will end the obsession.

I'm glad to hear this intelligent bra idea and thanks again for your article.

Now -- it's time to go back to writing about something else. You don't want to be known as the "big tit writer"!

It's not about the head covering, it's about parental abuse, and possibly extremist religion run amok (though I just can't believe even a strict Muslim father would actually kill his daughter over this, no matter what the media would have you believe).

Garrison Keillor, whose column is just below this article, had a hilarious chapter on this in his masterpiece "Lake Wobegon Days". It's called "New Albion", and describes the misadventures of the underachieving transcendentalists who founded the town. "A naked man in a fine silk hat."

And Tracy, I repeat, is quite hot.

Sometimes I disagree but generally your head is on straight. I also learn a lot from the news you point out.

Bolling would have a point if this was 1915 and black children were universally the children of sharecroppers.

I won't add to what others have said except to say: It's not that the tests are biased. You CAN'T design a test on which blacks as good as whites -- they ALWAYS do worse -- EXCEPT when they don't think they're being tested. See, for example, the studies done where blacks were told they were taking a "first-draft" test and were being asked to evaluate how good the test was. Their actual answers, they were told, were just incidental. In those studies, for the first and only time, blacks did as well as whites.

Those who say that the tests are culturally biased also never give examples of actual questions they can point to as biased. It's not that the tests are culturally biased -- it's that African-American culture is biased against test-taking.

. . . for a comic strip artist like Ruben Bolling, who writes his own words, to realize just how helpless entertainers are without their writers.

I'm reminded of the fifth season of Saturday Night Live, 1979 - 1980. It had the original cast (with Bill Murray), but was just awful, because the writing had turned so bad.

Most women are not liberals. They do not think Hillary is "running as a man". She is running as a centrist, which most women are.

And if they then realize how precious breasts are (in every possible way), and if it makes them think about and care about breast exams, then it's worth it. Anything associated in a guy's mind with bare breasts, stays associated.

As drywall pointed out:

The 2001 stunt by the Bush administration, though trumpeted (and mindlessly repeated in this article) as a rebate, was NOT a rebate. It was an "advance". We didn't get paid. We simply got refund money a little earlier than we would have gotten anyway. The amount we paid in taxes didn't change, and we got no extra money from the government.

The sign, "Please do not emanate into my penumbra", which he proudly displays in his office. Making fun of the "penumbra" language used by William O. Douglas to describe an unstated right to privacy in the Constitution, in 1962 in Griswold v. Connecticut, where the Court struck down a law prohibiting married couples from buying contraceptives.

Yet it was that right to privacy (later used to strike down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia), which gave Thomas the right to marry a white woman.