They work in brothels, which is legal in Queensland (Australia). And here in this article we have Call Girls who like their jobs and the men involved - so where does that leave us?

And there a bunch of online sex worker blogs which make for interesting reading, they get infuriated by people who try to retell their lives as a cesspool of abuse and despair.

Reminds me of the "carers" at a centre for disabled I knew. When they discovered that some of their clients had sex toys such as vibrators etc they did a immediate search of their rooms and private belongings and removed anything remotely sexual. Can't have those icky folks being sexual after all.

How Amero centric can you get? the article is not about the outsourcing of American Jobs to India, its about the creation of Jobs and the booming newspaper trade in India. Unlike the USA they value literacy, news and investigative reporting there.

In fact, it already has. I read about a community newspaper (in California, IIRC) that streams a web feed of city council meetings to India and gets reporters there to write it up. Pretty chilling.

Wow, that is chilling, and a sad commentary on the state of journalism in the western world.

The "problem" is that you're overconsuming a limited resource. For decades its not been an issue because your aquifiers, snowfields, catchment areas etc had huge reserves. Now they're reaching their limits, coupled with agricultural run off polluting the potable water and climate change reducing the rainfall - you might want to consider changing your habits for your own good. When the water runs out you can't substitute.

We've run into exactly this problem in Brisbane (Australia) and have had fairly strict water restrictions for a couple of years now. Average household consumption has dropped to 140 litres/day.

As satire or sarcasm or whatever - that fell flat. Stick to political commentary, you're much better at it.

I like the content that's there currently, a good start. And quite frankly oft-times the readers letters are as interesting/informative as the Salon articles.

Its good that's there potential for contributor remuneration, though I think they should get a cut of advertising as well, especially if their article is featured on Salon.

Something I haven't seen yet - what's the copyright? who owns the content on Open Salon and has the right to republish it?

I tried to watch the interview, but got tired of waiting for O'Hehir to shut up. Man that guy likes the sound of his own voice.

Make up bogus and unsupportable accusations of cheating and the clincher:

Why do you hate America?

The war whine of neocons and foxites across America.

That's what's driving them, not some faux concern for feminism or Hilary. They can't bear the thought of a Black Man and Woman sullying the White House with presence, with being their superior.

When you examine their rhetoric and aims in that light it makes more sense. For a feminist to dump the Democrat's and even threaten to vote McCain - doesn't pass the sniff test. But it makes sense for a racist to do so.

And not just because she finally fully supported Obama. No what really got to me was the taking it to the republicans and vision displayed for America and the World.

If only she'd spoken like this in the Primaries, she would have rolled in. She should have fired her advisor's months ago.

It was the Clinton Lovers, aka the PUMA's. Certainly they tried to stir it up.

Real women challenge restrictive definitions of what it means to be a female by exploring ways of being not strictly limited to physical appearance and sexual desirability.

Congratulations, you've defined a large percentage if not a majority of "women born women" as not real women.

And this article is the perfect sample - pretentious, pompous and condescending all in one. The light weight fluff that Salon is becoming infamous for.

Does quite well here in Australia. Probably to wry for Billy to get it, not enough sparkling wit.

Its not some nebulous ill defined patriarchy, its society in general. Women are every bit as guilty of this vile abuse of young boys as men maybe even more so considering the primary influence on young boys is usually their mother.

Until we all own up to our own responsibilities for this emotional abuse nothing will change.

And WTF is the matter with you? why are you putting up with this shit? where's your self respect?

All involved deserve each other but if you develop the nand's to dump this guy - please don't inflict yourself on some sweet caring guy, your passive aggressive attitude would make his life a misery.

However its good you both are being reasonable about the separation - acrimonious divorce = bankruptcy.

I'm guessing selling the house is a bad option in the current economic climate.

Is there any chance you could share the house and bills together as separated adults? It would make a lot of sense financially, just so long it was clear you where no longer a couple. Lay down some strict interaction rules and spin it as a new blended family thing. I'm sure your ex would still like to be part of the children lives as well.

I see nothing glib about my reply, it was a non-committal question. The divorce does not appear to be ugly and the couple involved reasonable people looking for the best way out of a difficult situation. Contrary to what appears to be the norm in your world, adults can make reasonable compromises.

And your life is pretty sad if you consider anyone on Salon your "friend". They don't know you and would not miss you if you stopped posting today.

In what way is Iran a rogue nation? has it invaded any countries lately?

Pot, meet Kettle.

And will he please stop say "Senator McCain is absolutely right ..."