Pre-Viagra, women were told that men lost interest because women were not sexy after age 40. Women took hormones in the hope that men would stay interested. Now women can't take them any more because of the cancer risk.

My observation is that the real sex drive on men drops way off after age 40 but most are not willing to admit that. So they blame women, of course.

Wow! That has to be about the most ridiculous piece I have ever read on any subject whatsoever.

What all the Johnny come latelys in this country don't want to face up to is that America is run by Vidal's class of people. We do have an upper class, and they're it. It's a subtle kind of control they exert. Bush and Bill Gates and Vidal himself are rare examples of visible upper class people. Most of them are invisible. They know who they are but you don't know who they are. If you do know any of them, they may have convinced you that they are just plain folks, but they are completely ruthless. Barbara Bush is a perfect example of this class. They pull the strings that operate you and me. Still.

I thought the article was dumb and that Bayard has no sense of what Vidal has been saying all these years.

It isn't so much the snobbery that galls me, though that's bad enough. It is the insufferably patronizing attitude toward the objects of charity that this piece reveals.

Didn't mean to post the URL that way. My bad.

Maybe she should move out of the godawful place she lives where inferior people dwell who make stupid remarks. A place full of obviously superior people like herself who would never talk to her or take the slightest notice of her even. Maybe she could move to Switzerland.

Two things I noticed in that Democracy Now! interchange. Sunstein says that crimes are against the law. That is really hard-hitting! He also implies that Glenn is"emotional." Not hard to see what he's implicating here; like women, gay men are "emotional," not "logical."

Sunstein has no real faith in democracy. I think in the back of his mind he imagines Americans as peasants who must be kept under control. He reminds me of the post WW II cold war liberals.

Oh, and he's a horse's patootie, just as all those craven politicos and academics of that time were. I would hate to see a return to that mentality in this country.

The last movie critic who had any influence on taste in films was Pauline Kael. She was of the generation of intellectuals who loved the movies and saw their potential as art and entertainment; she even ran her own movie theater in Berkeley in the 50's where young people like me saw great films.

And could she write! She was erudite, witty, always entertaining, whether she was panning or praising.

Traister and Taylor are good, but no single critic today can influence the public or the film makers the way Kael did.

Thank you. This is the historical context people of my age need a review on and that younger people may be learning about for the first time.

Nothing can be done. She's burned out. Poor thing.

At my age of 69 I no longer care about wowing the lads. But I do exercise as much as is recommended to keep from getting fat. So I'm not fat. But I'm not thin, either. And at my age I don't want to be thin, because being thin at 69 means being scrawny. And dieting means losing bone mass, and I don't want that to happen either.

I think dieting is the #1 cause of obesity in women. Diet when you are 13, grow up short and have a lifelong weight problem.

Frank should go to Fox. They have been showing good interviews with Naomi Klein. NPR sux.

Of course Frank isn't respectable like, say, Abramoff! Just because Frank's written all those books doesn't mean he isn't really just a hotheaded blogger. {?????}

I thought *One Market Under God* was as good as *What's the Matter with Kansas* and am looking forward to this latest book. The Harper's excerpt was outstanding.

Frank's the only writer I know who can report on awful things and make me laugh, too.

Yes, we live longer but our lives are shittier.

Faux you.

Those of us who are supposed to be kept in the dark thank you, Glenn. Truth to Power!!!

The gore-bot. Who invented that, pray tell?

Feminism is in trouble, because Clinton lost. So this guy's timing is good, and he could do some real damage.

Yes. There should be a deliberate campaign to emasculate McCain in the eyes of the public by pointing out that he lives off his wife.

Also, if he chooses to run with Romney, there should be relentless attacks on Mormonism.

I'm not being sarcastic: I'm serious. These fools can't be allowed to run this country. Whatever it takes!

I've got more demand than supply as it is.

In the 50's I knew an RN who had administered countless abortions, including a couple to herself. She used thin, flexible sticks, inserting them through the cervix. The cramps must have been very painful. As I recall, she mentioned a few stiff drinks as an analgesic.

This picture young women have today of women of the past cringing before male power is pretty funny. I hope they don't have to test their mettle in those ways again.

Young women are leaving churches. That's a bad thing?

McCain is throwing the election. Choosing someone like Palin to run with him is even worse than going with Romney. He figures everyone's as crazy as he is, but that is not the case.

What an amazing acrobat. He jumped the shark and screwed the pooch at the same time!