But sometimes it's hard to click on the link. This article in particular was so saddening. I feel so helpless; I know what my Senators and congressman will do, but how to influence all the others? Our voices seem meaningless.

It was a frightengly effective commercial, people who don't read are going to be swayed.

Not sure that's true. To horribly, horribly stereotype, a lot of those "people who don't read" have friends and family members who serve in the military. I suspect some of the reason the red staters are turning against the war is that they're getting tired of having 'their boys' (and girls) coming back dead or mutilated, and that the voices of the real vets they know will be far more effective than the actors on the teevee.

LW: You're probably resentful of your husband, on some level, for losing his job, and annoyed that he got to 'hang out doing nothing' for a while. (Most people live in fear of unemployment, but at the same time-- what a fantasy!)

He in turn was knocked around by losing his job, and then getting hit with a second job by his wife-- you say you both felt the chores were evenly distributed until you lost his job.

Now, hubby's got his job back and it seems like things should go back to status quo-- but they can't. You've both been through a hard time, you both probably felt unsupported, and so it wasn't quite right.

And then to top it all off you have a family crisis and two small grandchildren to worry about. And so you're stressed out, overtired, still probably not fully recovered from your previous stressful situation, and so-- in the infinite wisdom of the terminally stressed out-- you've decided that everything in life would be fine if your husband just started doing his laundry already.

You need extra help and support, whether it's from your husband, friend, therapist or the laundry service. Your grandchildren may need extra help too, especially with school about to start. Slow down. Send the laundry out if you need to. Take care of yourself and tell your husband you need some extra support right now. If he's resentful that you didn't give him enough support when he was out of work, try to talk it through. Realize what you need, and what he needs, and what your grandchildren need, and try to reach a compromise.

Good luck!

There's no difference between baby girls and boys aside from the lack of glitter. And you can go to a craft store, buy some pretty iron-ons, and fix that quickly and cheaply!

Goodwill is also a great place to buy baby jeans (except, of course, for the kind Katherine Ozment dumped), as they're already pre-washed and softer by definition.

@BettyBoop: I have a pink-lover too, though I've gotten her to expand into purple and coral. I'm glad the 'pink with brown' look is getting popular, because it's a little less candy-coated-looking.

About our mental health system, about our inadequate VA treatment, about the way police officers are trained-- or more precisely, aren't trained-- to handle the mentally ill.

But I think I'm too overwhelmed for that. So I'll just thank Salon for publishing this article. American journalism needs more of this, desperately.

I'm glad she has a sense of humor and she liked the strip. And I'm glad she has a product that lets Muslim women exercise safely and comfortably. It still disturbs me that so much of the world thinks that women should be covered, but at least the women who do cover, by choice or coercion or a little of both, can get outside and have a little fun.

How Homoerotic "Masculinity" Defines the Political Right

or How the Right Mis-Uses Masculinity to Define Power

(I hope the prize is a signed copy of your book, Glenn. I suspect I'll be quoting it at length once it comes out.)

2) If someone attacks your position on Iraq by calling you "fat," let's say, what is the best counter-argument to use against them?

a) Point out the absurdity of their argument, point out how puerile it is to make this kind of ad hominem "argument."

b) Find a picture of your opponent to determine if he is fat. If he is, point out that he is a hypocrite for calling you "fat" when he himself is fat.

See, I thought Glenn-- especially in light of what we have read before in his blogging-- was effectively doing both. That picture certainly heightened the absurdity of Hemingway's argument to me, anyway.

I really wish I'd thought of "Codpiece Conservatives." Utterly awesome title, and you can make reference to the historic role of the codpiece in your introduction, Glenn. But if that doesn't work for you I also thought of:

Fear of Feminization: How the Cult of Macho Weakens Our Political Discourse

I was thinking the same thing! The blog is called feministing, for Christ's sake, not 'Jessica Valenti's life and her cute puppy photos.' It's one thing to say, 'hey, I got a puppy' and throw up a photo or two, but weekly puppy pictures? Oy.

Tim Gunn is the gay daddy I never knew I wanted. It explains so much!

Glad to see Burn Notice getting some laudits too. That show's like buttered cheese popcorn: I really don't care if it's good for me, I just like how tasty it is.