From your lips to God's ear, Joan! We need the fall '08 version of Obama tomorrow night. I miss that guy.

Dear Mr. Keillor,

I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for such a moving tribute. All the best, and my prayers are with you and your family.

Thanks for so many laughs, BB. We're going to miss the little guy. Thanks too for bringing back the meadow gang, even just for a moment. Peace and all happiness to you.

As usual, you hit the nail on the head with this post. The wire-taps and DOJ involvement in the Spitzer case stink to high heaven.

OK, I think the term "vajayjay" is just plain stupid. What is so bad about the word vagina? The thing really bugs me about the way the word vagina/vajayjay is used is that everyone is using it wrong! Paris, Britney, et. al. aren't flashing their vaginas (unless the paparazzi are carrying speculums too), they are showing their vulvas! (Now for many that will just bring to mind Seinfeld...) Anyway, you all are talking about the vulva, not the vagina. My kids say vulva and penis; who needs to use a nickname? Just say it!!

NY Times E. Bumiller's "love letter" from Washington completely skips Colbert. Anyone reading her inane claptrap would have thought Dubya had a great time at the dinner with the newest "Bush twin." She must have been hiding under the table during Colbert's piece. What a tool!

BRAVISSIMO STEPHEN!! Thank you for that brave and brilliant work of art.

Thank you! I read Abraham's article in Elle and by the end of it I was infuriated. How dare she preach to working mothers that we're damaging our children while insisting *she* is lavishing her family with all of her love and devotion. Doing what? I'd love to be a "traditional wife and mother" if that meant never doing any laundry or cleaning. If you have a full-time nanny, then a babysitter, and a housekeeper, so you can write (at the kitchen table, snort!), how does that mean you are NOT a working mother? Give me a break. And in spite of all that help, she was *still* depressed. She should have tried being home ALONE for 16 hour stretches every week with energetic boy twins for 2 years straight. My darling sister has done just that with no outside help, just a loving husband. But she has NEVER judged me for working outside the home *and* at home while others took care of my children. Both of us are devoted to our children and our husbands in completely different ways but we RESPECT each other's choices. Flanagan's holier-than-thou attitude is only a manifestation of her own traumas and insecurities. Brava Joan!

If Kathleen Turner is moving to Rome, I think you want to sign off "Brava, signora, brava." Senora is Spanish, not Italian. I hope Italy will welcome her with open arms. Benvenuta, Kathleen!