Put this pseud out to pasture.

Why edify oneself by reading, say Joan Walsh, only to then read Paglia and wind up stupider than when you started.

God, cut this poser loose.

we were in the not-so-unusual New York position of spending her entire income, and then some, on paying a nanny

Money is fungible. Why is it always the ratio of "her salary" to child care expenses?

Why not "we spend X% of our joint income on child care"?

There's plenty of evidence that parenthood makes you stupider. Don't lie - you've seen it happen to yourself and your friends.

Ergo, it makes you more conservative.

Our wedding took place at a county courthouse, then the reception was at my old roommate's place. We brought a carload of beer and wine and cheap champagne. Food from the grocery deli, a favorite Chinese joint, and a chicken BBQ shack down the road. The band was me and a bunch of friends. Another pal deep fried a turkey. Bride's outfit was $25 worth of thrift store shopping. I wore my staple blue blazer, also from a thrift store ten years earlier. The only extravagance was a cheesecake wedding cake from a renowned local bakery.

We had about 60 or so guests. Cost: $1500, including a maid service to clean up the day after. We took the leftover half of the food, and about twenty of the guests, back to where we lived, to party away the rest of the honeymoon weekend. Every guest said they'd never had a better time at a wedding - even those who had had fancy mega-weddings.

And this wasn't a reaction to a recession. It was 1993, and we just did what we think is truly fun.

Just remember how much of a drag the standard wedding actually is, and create a GOOD (not impressive) time for all!

Porn sex, including facials, goofy get ups, the pubic Hitler trim, and spooging on the small of her back, is some of the dumbest-assed sex ever. It's a sure sign, ladies, that you've got a chronic wanker on your hands. And face.

Does we need to museum every snapshot, teddy bear, chocolate bar, can of beer, locket of hair, and poem on a slip of paper that is left at every federal gravesite?

Pepople will have to handle their own grief, and not make the government responsible for it. The U.S. keeps beautiful sites like Arlington to the memory of our fallen warriors. These gestural tchotchkes are sweet, but expensive, too expensive to memorialize forever.

We have museumed the mementoes at "The Wall", an unusual and interesting project at one site. This doesn't make us responsible in perpetuity for every sentimental deposit at every grave. Take the stuffed animals, baseball gloves, and balloons home, and grieve amongst our loved ones, in private, the way people have for millenia.

Maybe it's because the cop show is the most boring, overused, hackneyed device in TV.

Maybe after a dozen different "CSI" airing 24/7, the viewing public is sick to friggin' death of cop shows.

"But, but, but, this one's better!!!"

Sorry, no it's not. It's just more crap. More, more, of the same, same, BlamBlam crapola.

When do we get a weekly defense of the talking points of the Whigs, the Nazis, and every other dying political philosophy?

"Walker" adds nothing to the many rightwing websites out there. If we want this, stuff, the GOP has offices and websites for their propaganda.

Is pushing crap like "Walker" and Paglia supposed to boost your evenhandedness cred? It doesn't. You waste resources for this stuff.

...just because he said something Horowitz can agree with.

Horowitz is still an idiot.

Why does Salon feel that we need one more outlet for the conservative crap that has crippled and shamed our nation?

If this was the 1950's, would we have "Ask a Nazi and a Fascist", for commentary on the European political scene?

This is what national political parties are for. It is not Salon's place, nor is it in the reader's interest, to be pushing this rancid spin.

Why is Salon.com becoming a proponent of wingnut welfare?

When do we get "Ask the buggywhip manufacturer" or "Queries for modern Whigs"?

We get enough of this crap in GOP campaigns; we don't need it here, too.

And why is this forthright commentator so proud of his party, that he won't be identified by name?

Compost works in the garden, but not in the realm of ideas. You can throw the Wingnut and Camille Paglia into a bin, but no matter how long you wait, you aren't going get anything more useful out of that heap.

Now, stop screwing with us, and give us some useful information.

What is the basis for your belief that we need to hear from this freak?

Has he even one credential as a serious and enlightened observer of the political scene? Or does anyone who has eaten a live chicken head get an automatic billing in your sideshow?

Society takes a body blow every time a good cop is injured or killed in the line of their duty to serve and protect.

Every time there is a shooting like Oscar Grant's; every time a police detainee is unjustly beaten or abused; whenever a young cop becomes the shame of his force by muscling a family coming to a hospital to see a dying relative; whenever a citizen is needlessly tortured by Taser - or even killed; the bad cops are pinning the arms of good cops everywhere, and inviting tragedy to take its worst shot.