Once I was on vacation in Washington D.C. I was at one of the Smithsonian Art Museums. A mother sat down in the middle of a bunch of paintings and started to breastfeed her infant. So, I had to decide whether to walk over near her in order to see the paintings I wanted to look at or to just walk away. These paintings were by an artist I love and I wasn't going to be back in D.C. or at that museum again any time soon. So, I decided to walk over. I studied the paintings and made an effort not to look directly at the mother and child. A minute or two after walking over, I heard from behind me "it would be nice if we could have some privacy" from the mother. Her husband chimed in, "move along buddy." I left, found a guard, and she asked them to leave. I was able to enjoy the paintings in peace.

Mothers need to realize that the world does not revolve around them just because they managed to procreate. If you want to have a kid, then that kid comes with some sacrifice on your part. You might not be able to go where you want, whenever you want. The world does not stop for you while you breastfeed.

No one I know has time to be a "lactivist." What world do you people live in?

Is it too much to ask that I be able to open Salon.com and not see an ugly redneck stereotype with a cigarette dangling out of its mouth?

This feature isn't funny or amusing. Its just ugly and low brow. If I wanted to see stuff like this, I'd just watch TV.

I'd rather read Paglia or that annoying "rock critic" who didn't like the Beatles.

Salon.com can do better...

The article should be required reading for anyone considering military service.

Any guy who has sex with a woman who has had more than a few drinks is a rapist. Men know better. They know that the unwritten rule is that you don't sleep with drunk women. Alcohol lowers inhibitions enough that a woman who would have said “no” will say “yes.”

Anyone who tells you different is either lying or deluding themselves. Just because the rapist is also drunk is no excuse. We don’t excuse drunk driving just because the driver was drunk when he or she decided to get behind the wheel.

If I ever have a daughter, she will not be allowed to read Cosmo.

As a professor in the sciences, I can tell you that anyone who gets a C and an F in organic chemistry isn't going to be a doctor. You need a near-4.0 GPA to get into medical school. Competition to get in is extremely tough. More importantly, if you can't handle organic chemistry without panic attacks, you are not going to cut in in medical school. You would be well advised to change you major now, rather than continue down your current path and then be rejected over and over again by one medical school after another. I've seen students take that route and its not pretty. There is nothing sadder than than an unsuccessful premed who just wasn't able to see the writing on the wall. Change your major now. A year from now, it wont seem like a big deal.

There are so many things you can do to help people besides being a doctor. Find one that suits you and that you enjoy.

Good luck!

These are beautiful, intelligent, enchanting dogs. They make wonderful pets and are good around children. Don't judge until you've been around one for a while.

Yes, people want cheap flights. People want everything cheaply. People want to buy an Armani suit for $10 at Walmart. What does this prove?

The fact that people want dirt cheap flights is not an adequate excuse for the lousy, awful service that airlines provide today. I bet if you asked people if they would pay $10 or $20 extra per flight for decent legroom and fewer delays, the answer would be yes.

The real reason why airlines stuff as many people as they can onto an airplane, keep them sitting on the tarmac through hours long delays, and are using more regional jets is profit. All of these things increase profit. The airlines are businesses and the only goal of a business is to make money, as much as possible.

Regulation is the answer to this problem. Without regulations, things like the minimum wage, consumer product safety standards, child labor laws, and unions would not exist.

Left to their own devices, the airlines have made flying unbearable and hostile. Its time to consider re-regulating the airlines. The government should control the numbers of flights available, routes, ticket prices, whatever. I'm sure its possible to make flying better and still allow the airlines to make a decent profit, without causing ticket prices to skyrocket.

Calculators and computers used to be so expensive that the average person couldn't afford them either. I'm sure the fact that flying used to be expensive has a very complicated explanation. It can't just be explained by more competition among airlines. Advances in technology and larger volumes of travelers are also part of the equation.

Mr. Smith needs to think more critically and stop parroting the standard airline BS. At this point, he is just an apologist for the airline industry.