I'm too damn old to have another kid, because I waited too long to have the first one, so I have less than total patience with someone who's so overwhelmingly fortunate, but can't be anything other than pissed off that he has to waste time on his kids instead of whatever the hell else seems so damn important to him. And you think I might want to visit his web site for more of the same crap? Letting my subscription lapse is looking pretty good if this, along with hand-wringing about having a nanny, is the kind of thing I can expect to look forward to week after week.

I totally agree with both Cary and the other letter writers when they say that you should run, not walk away from this shitty job and find something, anything, else, till you find your "real" job. But I'd also like to add that sometimes it's not the job itself, but the environment, and your boss and coworkers that make all the difference. I like what I do, but most of the job openings available to me would force me to work unpaid overtime with a bunch of arrogant former frat boys. I'm in a position now where we work regular hours, my boss rewards loyalty, is not a micro-manager and doesn't throw us to the wolves when the shit hits the fan. The other people in our group are smart, hard-working, funny, family oriented people who enjoy their job, work hard, and then also enjoy going home at the end of the day. As I said, I like what I do, but the job itself is less important to me than the environment I'm in. I've had lots of jobs that I hated so much that I started dreading the next day the minute I left the building. Life's too short for that shit.

Hope I'm not repeating - I did read through all the letters before posting, but might have missed it. I haven't seen it since it was originally in the theater, but my husband and I cried like babies. I'm sure that having to euthanize my favorite cat several days earlier had nothing to do with it.

Thank you for putting Iron Giant at the top of the list. We watched it again tonight, after a long hiatus, but only because we discovered we somehow don't own The Princess Bride.

Also thanks for the great ideas. I can't wait to see a nicely compiled version of the also ran/readers suggestions list.

That was a really wonderful tribute to Bruno. I had to grab a box of tissues well before the end. This was the only pet piece compelling enough to read all the way through this week. Thank you.

He may not have been the first person to stand up against the right wing noise machine, but I bought Lies and the Lying Liars.... when it was still in hardcover and wanted to run out and read passages to everyone I knew. I don't think I was the only one who was inspired by that book, at that time, when it felt like members of the reality based community were few and far between. He did a great thing with that book, and his subsequent radio show, and I expect him to be a truly worthy successor to Paul Wellstone. I'm just baffled as to why the election was so close in the first place. It shouldn't have been so hard to defeat an empty suit.

"Praying for death" is EXACTLY how I feel about wasting film stock on the story of Julie-the-very-full-of-herself blogger. Just seeing Amy Adams in the trailers with that awful hairstyle makes that part of the movie look even more pretentious and boring. Big deal, so you made aspic. I'm in awe that blog was popular. Even my husband, who hates watching food related programming of any kind thinks that a movie about Julia Child would be fascinating enough without crapping it up with completely unrelated filler.