How many women have actually had a man tell her she must shave her pubic hair to be acceptable to him? It has never happened to me, or to any of my girlfriends. I've always been natural and never had any complaints. And I never lacked partners willing to go down on me, so I find it hard to believe that hair is a deal breaker for most men. If a woman wants to put up with the pain, expense and inconvenience of denuding her bush because *she* likes herself better that way, fine, but don't put the onus on men by saying they demand or expect it. I really don't think most of them do.

Our economy of excessive consumerism - whether for domestic help or bikini waxes (as reported in Salon yesterday) - was basically a house of cards built on a very unstable foundation of free-flowing credit without cash to back it up. Americans as a group spent money they did not have, racking up tremendous debt and saving little to nothing. Anyone with common sense knew this artificial prosperity could not be maintained forever. I feel badly for *anyone* who loses a job now, be they foreign or American, but many of those jobs should not have existed in the first place. They were fruits of a mutant tree that has reached the end of its unsustainable life. The corrections the economy is going through are painful but necessary, to bring us all back to a place of proper prospective on money and how to use it wisely. I hope we remember our lessons.

I have an eight-year old son, am very active online and have never even heard of Twitter until this article. Is it because of my son's "advanced" age, and the similar age of my friends' children? Or because I have friends who are not so self-absorbed as to feel the need to inform me of everything their kids do? Either way, I think I'm glad to be out of this annoying loop.

I haven't read all the comments, so if others have said this already just consider me as seconding their thoughts. Is Warren who I would have liked for Obama to have chosen for this role? No. Does it make me wish I hadn't voted for Obama? HELL, NO! Despite this frustrating decision, I'm still ecstatic that Obama is president and not McCain. Just like the times Bill Clinton disappointed me, when Obama does I will just stop and think "does this make me wish a Republican were in charge?" - the answer will always be NO. Libs need to be grateful that Obama was able to convince enough moderates to vote for him, and he needs to *keep* those moderates on his side. If Obama goes hard left now, he won't get re-elected. Be mad for a moment, wallow in it if you must, but then get over it and be thankful it's not McCain picking Warren for the invocation.

I'll welcome Warren praying at Obama's inauguration over Warren praying at *McCain's* inauguration, with an "Amen!" and several "Hallelujah!"s.

I know nothing about what it takes to get a book published, or to run a publishing company. I'm just a reader. A reader who, at the turn of the millenium was buying 2 or 3 new paperbacks a week, and at least a hardback a month. Now I buy 2 or 3 new books a YEAR, and those are gifts, and I buy them from independent booksellers online. Books have become outrageously expensive in a time when everything else has, too. So then I have to make choices, and new books lose.

I have a great local library and am very active in an online book swapping site. I keep seeing paperbacks on Amazon that are re-issues for half their original price, so lower prices apparently can be done. They will *have* to be done if they want my money ever again. I am raising a voracious reader who has never been in our local Barnes & Noble - I want him to learn that is the LAST place to go for a book. And I agree with those who refuse to read e-books, as my eyes just can't take it.

New books are a luxury for many of us, and luxuries get cut out of msot budgets quickly. Publishers are learning that the hard way, and hopefully will figure out how to cut corportate costs and pass the difference on to readers. Until then, I will enjoy my used books with no guilt.

So, he was ready to offer her up for Miss Buffalo Chip (a topless contest at the Sturgis motorcycle rally) but says no to DwtS? Idiot.

As someone whose husband is in law enforcement (he thinks R&C should have done the whole 10 years, as the shooting was bad enough but the coverup was worse) I've been watching this case closely, and frankly expected - and dreaded - a full pardon.

So, I'm someone mollified that these men will have this shameful incident stay on their permanent records, that no more ridiculous folk songs will be written in their "honor" (I think they have none) and that their case will still (hopefully) send a message to future officers that there is a price to pay for not obeying the law they have sworn to uphold.

With this commutation, justice got shot in the ass, too. It really hurts, but it is not a fatal hit.