Whores is as whores does. Fucking or otherwise.

Oh, and I'm a product of those 70's Womens' Studies classrooms, and I cringe when anyone's called a fucking whore, too, but I deplore both the Clintons' whorish ways. Call a spade a spade, I always say, if that's not going to be misconstrued, too. Woman really is the nigger of the world and I deplore sexism as much or more than anyone, but there's nothing feminist about Hillary Clinton. Nothing presidential, either.

I'll be one of those who don't read Salon from here on in, after having been a reader for a decade or so and a former Premium subscriber. The SUN and The Enquirer have lots of readers, too, but are those really the readers your advertisers want? Quality? or quantity, Joan? Your pandering is disgusting. And your awful knee-jerk reactions to anyone who disagrees with you is just spectacularly unprofessional.

Like I said: Whores is as whores does.

He's so obviously a case of arrested development that he's simply not able to take on the parental role. As evidenced by the role he takes in this column.

"I lean toward letting kids do what they really, really want to do. I have a kind of instinctive faith in kids, in their ability to sort through stuff."

"Instinct"??? Nope, that's arrested development. To the point of not being able to act "in the best interests of the children." Which is a legal term, actually. Cary is constitutionally unable to act as parens patriae.

Follow his parenting advice at your own peril.

... but I can't help it!

What is with these ulra-high collars on Hillary's jackets???

Is anyone else besides me reminded of Elvis Presley? He always had his collars made high because he didn't like his pencil neck.

Every time I see this "fashion statement" I want to guffaw. Even though I know I'm not supposed to have any opinion on any candidate's fashion sense or dress.

Oh, and: I'd rather die than have the Clintons back in the White House. But that doesn't affect my opinion about her high collars. Honest.

That is all.

Please.

I still don't understand how a candidate can be said to have "won" an election when the other candidates aren't on the ballot. Even if those missing candidates removed their names themselves. I mean, they were following the spirit if not the letter of whatever Democratic Party "rules" applied to those MI and FL primaries, right?

As "compromises" go, I suppose this one is as good as any. I hesitate to call the "win" for Hillary, though. It's just doesn't seem .... well, possible to wrestle that "event" into a "win." Semantically or otherwise.

Plus, as a former Edwards and now Obama by default supporter, this semantic squishiness dovetails a little too closely with Hillary's own penchant for "misspeaking" and for being, well, "disingenuous."

I mean, is this Orwell's 1984, or what?

Won't read the blog post (the header is all I need to see), haven't read the letters, but I'm to the point of contacting Salon's Board of Directors with these criticisms of Joan Walsh's awful dumbing down of Salon.

Christopher Neimeth is Salon's Chief Executive Officer.

The Board of Directors includes:

Deepak Desai

Robert Ellis

Elizabeth Hambrecht

George Hirsch

Robert McKay

James H. Rosenfield

David Talbot

John Warnock

(you can find them all listed on this page: http://www.salon.com/ir/leadership/ )

Because parenting is so totally NOT about you.

And you seem so totally about yourself.

Have a baby or two or three, and the "you" of you will more or less disappear for, oh, 16-20 years or so. And maybe more.

I wonder, too, if you've given any thought to the idea that your baby may have special needs - very special, very challenging, very overwhelming, ongoing and difficult special needs. Has that idea ever been given any thought in your fantasy/lust of having a baby?

I get so weary of "cluckiness" that's all about putative Mom.

This simply cannot go on.

I'm to the point of contacting Salon's Board of Directors with these criticisms of Joan Walsh's awful dumbing down of Salon.

Christopher Neimeth is Salon's Chief Executive Officer.

The Board of Directors includes:

Deepak Desai

Robert Ellis

Elizabeth Hambrecht

George Hirsch

Robert McKay

James H. Rosenfield

David Talbot

John Warnock

(you can find them all listed on this page: http://www.salon.com/ir/leadership/ )

Does anyone have any advice on finding out the email addresses of these folks, or any other way to contact them directly?

I'm serious.

Gee, thanks for that lightning-like flash of how media are bought and paid for!

For the record: I used to be a Premium Subscriber - even gave gift subscriptions out, back in the day. All that ended when Joan started dumbing salon down, so people like reality bites would wander over to the site.

Pandering is as pandering does, and worshiping at the page hits altar is the death of salon.com.

David Talbott must cringe every time he clicks over this way.

Oh, and Xranadu whatever-your-name-is? Joan didn't "put together" this site. She merely invaded it and is systematically dumbing it down - and out. As per this very column's stupidity.

It's absolutely clear to me that Joan Walsh cares not one whit for salon.com OR for its original constituency. All she cares about is becoming a talking head and page hits.

It's disgusting. But she doesn't care, so all this indignation and opproprium is just fruitless venting.

She should be ashamed, but, by definition of the kind of media to which she's sold her soul, she's shameless. And demonstrates her shamelessness again and again and again.

It's the page hits, stupid.

Oh, btw, she also bans usernames who say stuff like this, so this may just be my last post as Duke of URL. Don't say I didn't warn you.