It can't be said or shown often enough how contemptible these media bastards are. More cartoons like this from Tom Tomorrow are fine with me. He's angry. So am I.

Period.

I think this disgenuous all-American stuff has had its day. Yawn.

Thank you for sparing me from seeing another bad movie with a message.

Personally, I like-a da juice.

Gellhorn sounds like a fairly nasty piece of work to me. Another nasty piece of work is Elia Kazan. His biographer, Richard Schickel, lauds him for his contributions to the theater and the movies without making me like him in the slightest.

These were the modernists. They really did not care what they did to other people as long as they got their way.

Funny how we all get it, isn't it.

A woman I know is struggling with age-related incontinence. I discovered only by accident that she had a problem when she stood up from a chair and there were wet spots on the back of her skirt. Another time, she said she had spilled coffee on herself but could not get the moisture from between her legs. I then noted how often she ran for the bathroom and how nervous and distressed she often seemed.

This is not denial on her part, but economic distress that leads her to try to hide her condition.

She is an older woman in a demanding job who has to continue to work although she would rather retire. Her job demands a good appearance and a svelte body. Depends, or even padded underpants, would be a disaster. I don't think her dilemma is unusual.

Incontinence is a humiliating condition. The world, as this thread shows, may not be too forgiving of women with this condition--not even simple incontinence, let alone a constant stream of urine or bowel incontinence.

Akaka has my vote, because Case stands for everything I don't like in Hawaii politics.

What I wish is that one of the wonderful people we have running for his vacated Congressional seat:-- Schatz, Hooser, Hanebusa, even Maize Hirono--could get his senatorial seat instead. Or even some we have running at the Council level where I live. In my book, Case is an opportunist and careerist, not a true representative of the people of Hawaii.

I don't like shopping. I don't like hairdos and makeup. I can think of cheaper ways to waste my time. Sex is fine, but I don't need anyone's advice on how to have it.

I don't think commercialism is a high value. If they want to do traditional female stuff,little boutique owners might think about educating the young and caring for the young, the old, and the sick rather than selling their uesless made in China girly items.

Bust is a piece of crap. Twisty is fun. Let's all grow up.

Where do the children play?

Of course people will post nasty things to you. They are jealous. What I know and they don't want you to know is how lucky you are to be having a baby.

George Clooney. Why bother to even mention any other guy?

George Clooney. Huff Post's straw poll agrees with me big time.

Don't even have to say why.

The point is, he's not young and cute anymore, so now people realize his stuff has been crap all along.

It is just plain stupid to care about nursing one way or the other, in my opinion. I don't think it needs to be done in privacy, either.

Some people are sick in the head about breasts, that's all.

Oh, and of course jealously plays a role. Childless bottle-fed babies could be upset at the sight of a loving bond between a mother and child, much as bitter old people hate the sight of couples kissing in public.

What Debra Dickerson may not want to tackle as a subject is the almost universal bigotry against black women. If only she could write, they say, even though she's a fine writer. If only she really was "in touch" with the real black community, as if she does not experience being black every day of her life? Why not get someone else, they say (male, of course) to write about these matters, as if she has not informed herself on the issues she writes about?

The attacks on her article indicate that many think she is a good target simply because of who she is.

I'm really sick of Keillor. The sicker I get of him, the more I'm forced to see and hear and read his work. At a convention I went to in Minneapolis, where he told us a stupid story about his kid and the magic of childhood. That damn movie for necrophiles thatI had to watch (without soundtrack, at least) on the airplane. A half hour of his program from Honolulu because I thought I might hear some good Hawaiian music but it was junk. And "Writer's Almanac." Gag-o-rama! And then, the final straw, this column. Just my bad luck, I guess. How sick of him I am can't be a patch on how sick he must be of himself, though.

He's right up there with Bush and Billy Joel in my personal list of people I'm sick of.

Furthermore, I'm an American but I'm not a Christian.

Oh, and I'm sick of Christmas too.

Keillor is clever; still, no one really should take Keillor seriously. Yet many do. It's because there is no one else doing radio, alas. He has a monopoly on the radio nostalgia schtick. Maybe that can change.

How I miss you, Bob and Ray.

What you said, T.K.

I don't recognize Said in anything Kamiya says about him. I have not read the Irwin book, so I can't say anything about it beyond what he says.

But the whole tone of Said's work is of questioning, of fairness, of remaining open to change.

I'm sorry he is no longer around to defend himself.