Reading your spouses private writing is a abuse of trust. I'm the tech guy at home, it would be trivial for me to read all my wife's emails and documents, but I have never done so and never will. Sure its tempting once in a while but I despise myself if I gave in.

Australia's treatment of refugees is truly appalling. We have innocent children who have been in detention all their lives, kids attempting suicide, parents sewing their own mouths shut in despair.

The irony is many of these refugees were fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but apparently Iraq was not an oppressive nation then.

I can't believe that BS would so blatantly excuse such a nasty misogynistic slogan. But I guess its that classic white middle class faux feminist struggle with which oppressed group to excuse. I guess African American's won out this time. Can't be criticising the brothers!

But regardless of BS's position, my opinion of the slogan would be the same.

How about a Hilary T-Shirt - "Sistahs before niggahs". Its humorously misspelt so everyone will be ok with that.

90% Daydreaming, 10% utter panic

Why is Salon buying into this gossip as political comment crap - we have fox news for that.

Hero's hasn't finished here in Australia

I too think Hugh Laurie is the bees knees. Saw all of Black Adder and "a bit of Fry and Laurie" and still love house. The abusive snarky black humour, the casual use of opiates, the arrogant brilliance, the general lack of caring about redemption or causes - love it, its so refreshing compared to the usual baptismal network programming. The worst thing NBC could do for the show is clean House up.

And I must confess - Since house, Hugh Laurie is the top (and only contender) on my list of guys I would go gay for.

The nuclear plants will go some way to rectifying it.

And the various food contamination scares could have long term effects for them - "Chinese Food is poison" is now firmly fixed in the western conciousness.

America and its reputation are toast, it will take generations for this stain to pass, and by then the USA will not be recognisable.

Pretty much what Cary and everyone else has said and also - major kudo's to you for rescuing a kitten and sticking by it when it stopped being cute and became aggressive, good one, you're good people.

And don't discount the country adoption idea - I think that might be quite good for your cat. He may have been indoors all his life but could probably adapt well to outside. I'd just make sure his new home kept him in for a while as he would probably take off if let outside immediately from a strange home.

"A good slapping?" - how'd you fancy your teeth being handed to you on a platter.

And what's with this ridiculous Victorian mentality? how did middle America become such prudes?

BTW - no one likes a tattle tale.

According to the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/missingpersons.htm) men and women go missing is roughly equal numbers, though oddly the majority of missing adults are male.

So how many missing males are being focussed on in the media lately?

Yeh yeh, I know - doesn't matter

In January 2006, contrary to all expectations, the party won a parliamentary election in the Palestinian territories

Only to those with their heads througly up their asses - ie the Bush Administration. Anyone else with a passing knowledge of Palestine expected Hamas to win.

I tend to be reflexively irritated by advertising misandry, but I didn't find the ad implied all men are pigs - just the ones who won't use condoms :) Use a trojan condom - get laid, not much more to it than that.

Having said that, Tracy (and BS) expressing concerns that it was insulting to men was appreciated.

But, as Tracy said the real WTF is Fox's response - no condoms unless its for health reasons! how puritanical is that? Just what is wrong with using condoms because you enjoy sex and want to avoid pregnancy? They have no problems advertising Viagra. But that's not contraception is it. Bloody religious nuts.

Seconding AKA Smith here - pigs are intelligent, humoerous, affectionate creatures, easily trainable and very clean if not locked in a stye. They make great pets.

Let's say that this proposal did have a provision or two that won't work for the Palestinians

Such as:

• arable land swapped for plots in the Negev desert
• Israeli control of the water rights
• Israeli control of the airspace
• Israeli control of all borders
• A network of Israeli only roads and crossings that break Palestine into 4 cantons

Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

After it he managed it with pretzels, its just the little screw up couldn't even get that right.

Or they'd know just how damn bad and debilitating it can be, and marijuana is very effective in treating it and a lot less harmful then a pain killer addiction.

The son is being a pompous self-righteous ass - but he's 15 years old, thats part of the age group - what's Cary's excuse?

I doubt neither Cary or the son is ready to do everything for the Mother while she's laid up and unable to move.

I find it fascinating how much modern "Feminist" theory has in common with the current crop of neocons or any other fear driven fundamentalist group, and this interview illustrates it amply. Both the interviewee and the two letters supporting her do so by way of straw men, misrepresentation, stereotypes and bogus science served with a heaping of opinion presented as fact.

The two letters are particularly good - disagree with the theory? obviously you're a insecure misogynistic man. No attempt to address the arguments on their merits, just project your warped world view onto the other and demonise them. Classic neocon mindset.