I can understand being passionate about food and then being disenchanted with the whole food/hospitality industry, but, it seems as though Ann was never really passionate about food to begin with, and this was just a convenient job. She seems to resent being friends with chefs and "foodies," and didn't like the whole "scene" at all. Well, if you're a food writer, what did you expect? I work in the music industry and am surrounded by musicians, publicists, etc. I don't resent that, I relish it!

I do understand, however, her frustration with editors and publishers who do stupid things in an attempt to sex up any topic to sell more newspapers or magazines. But, it appears that Ann has let this color her view of the ENTIRE food industry and the enjoyment of food. That I just don't understand.

I'm also curious why she was so public. Aren't food writers supposed to remain as anonymous as possible in order to provide the most accurate reviews?

It's fine if you want to bitch about your cushy job as a food writer, but, to then turn around and poo-poo the entire industry because of your own burnout just comes across as being a bit arrogant and elitist, especially when it appears she was never really into it to begin with.

With due respect to Scooter, judges ruled that Clinton wasn't too busy as the President of the country to answer questions or answer truthfully under oath. Is a second-tier political hack staffer to the VP saying he was somehow busier?

Indiana is being too soft. My religion believes conception begins at ejaculation - sperm is life! My spooge has rights!!! :) Every boy should be sent a letter from the governor at the age of thirteen explaining that spermatazoa can die, ergo they are life.

Maybe next they should pass legislation making it mandatory for women to accept sperm donations -- accepy my cum dammit -- stop killing my innocent children! Next they should make it illegal to masturbate except in the presence of a women in estrus. Perhaps the state should set up statewide masturbation centers staffed by good Christian women willing to accept sperm donations from men overflowing with life, so to speak!

It could spark a whole new tourism promotion campaign - cum visit Indiana, leave a life!

Also, perhaps copulation should be outlawed on the basis that sperm feel pain and they all die except that lucky one. Could we find a way to limit one spermatazoa per woman, guys?

And finally, perhaps all couples who refuse to have more children should be neutered, as that is the god-mandated purpose of marriage, and all children should be taken from single-parent families and placed with the state, where their eggs and sperm can be controlled by the government, just as the Republican god intended it.

As the very Reverend Tony Campolo said, when you mix politics with religion it's like mixing horseshit with ice cream -- it doesn't hurt the horseshit much, but it sure ruins dessert.

Don't be ridiculous! Gail Norton isn't resigning because of Jack Abramoff, she's resigning to spend more time with her family ... lots of time. 24 hours a day. All day. Seven days a week. She is obsessed with her family. All she wants to do is spend time with them. That's why she moved to Washington, DC in the first place. She just didn't realize the demands selling the nation's parks to oil and forestry executives would place on her time. Bush told her it would be easy.

btw, did you hear that Yellowstone is being renamed? ... Gail's Geyser & RV Park is what I've heard.

With respect to Mr. Shapiro, who is merely pointing out a truism, times are different now. Hillary will only win the nomination if the rank and file fall into line, as they did behind John Kerry.

Hillary Clinton is my senator, she imposed herself on my State, and I've had time to watch her performance - if you have money, she's yours. If you're an upstate Republican, you have to grudgingly admire her.

But if you care about troops who were sent to war without body armor, and without sufficient international support - hell, without sufficient domestic support - and if you care about the trampling of the constitution by the conmen sworn to protect it, and if you care about the fact that the government has become the biggest lawbreaker in the country - NSA illegal spying, Pentagon spying on nuns and peace groups, illegal detention of American citizens in military brigs, torture, pre-emptive invasions of peaceful countries, Social Security trust fund given away to billionaires, etc.

... if you care about all of that, if you believe passionately in the constitution, if you believe our soldiers are a precious resource that should be properly protected and used strategically, if you care about our international reputation ... then Hillary is not your Presidential candidate. She's not a bad person, she's just chosen to represent the interests of the powerful and connected rather than the real interests of most of us who live here.

And ultimately, she's the candidate of the DLC, who also forced John Kerry on us last election, and the election before that advised Democrats to pretend to be Republicans (that was the election we lost the Senate and got trounced in the House, if you recall).

So we've been there, tried that, and sorry, close but no cigar. Hillary gets our respect as a Senator, but not as Presidential candidate. And besides which, I'm sick of these family dynasties - this country isn't supposed to have a royalty.

After watching with disgust how the party treated Paul Hackett, many of us are dedicated to making sure that someone with real passion and ideas and principles is the party's nominee this year. If the DLC republican-lite jerkoffs try to force another corporate candidate down our throats, it's the Green Party for me.