The thing I miss most about Mr. Blue is not the advice but the fact the letters were so beautifully editted. To this day When I read 'Since You Asked' I wish the letters were more concise and elegant.

Well, this is a beautiful letter. Nothing extra. Everything necessary. Good structure. Very compelling. Keep writing.

If only 32% put the number at 10,000 or fewer, the median (the point at which 50% of responses are higher and 50% lower) must be higher than 10,000, and therefore greater than the cited 9890.

Yeah, I would believe this if Dan had defended the kinky selfish husband, but he didn't. I think Debra was ripping off Dan's voyeuristic territory while posing as a prude -- what joy she took in listing those kinks! Sorry Debra, but you are clearly a perve.

So glad you're back.

Love this column.

Argue with every other sentence.

LOVE "runny butter-cream frosting"

Keep it coming.

All this maneuvering, including the presidential buzz, is preparation for a senate run when Hillary goes to the White House. He's not idealistic like Ross Perot or delusional like Ralph Nader -- he's too careful to run for president.

Note that he spent a lot of money to be mayor when it was a tough race, then spent more when it was a sure thing. He makes smart bets.

But a plagiarizer. Thanks to the earlier post with the Slate link.

"Only a masochist or castrate would want to be Hillary's V.P. anyhow, since Bill would sit on him like a beanbag."

Abd the perfect vp nominee is... Al Gore!

I haven't really thought this through, but here goes...

I think you can't divorce the actual candidates from the abstract racism/sexism argument. Obama has the benefit of no history (on a national scale) in the race politics of the 90s. He enters the race debate with a clean slate. Clinton, on the other hand, comes with an extremely charged history from the gender debates of the 80s and 90s. Even though her position has prevailed and the idea of the professional woman is now commonplace (if not entirely noncontroversial), the taste of her 90s partisanship in the gender wars prevails. It is one of the burdens of her experience.

I wonder what the polls would show if a race pioneer from the 90s with a public history from the 90s culture wars was challenging an inspirational woman newcomer. My guess is we might be more ready for a woman.

read "Enrique's Journey" by LA Times reporter Sonia Nazario. It's the story of a Honduran boy riding the trains through Mexico to find his mother in the U.S. Harrowing and compelling, her work is a likely inspiration for this film.

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/27/nazario/index.html

the victory speech tie is different