And I do not want any more a Daley's stupid ideas negatively impacting my life (see selling the city's multi-billion dollar public parking "franchise" for pennies on the dollar to a private company in 2008).

Daley is a known idiot and Chicago is a great city, lets part friends.

The effort to foist the Olympics on us has been nothing short of an Orwellian/totalitarian effort to use our public resources for the gains and glory of a very few power brokers and other sheisters.

Leave Chicago to Chicagoan and our invited friends.

I really have nothing to add. Chillingly incisive, sad and cerebral. Nice yob.

Not long ago my country too had a national election stolen by a smarmy looking numb skull who was also backed up by a junta of unelected elders pretending to have legitimacy and the best values of democracy in mind. However, just as in Iran, their was nothing but corruption and power grabbing going on.

It is an old story with very little to redeem it.

Hope for strength and struggle if you can.

Remarks about women that women don't (think they) like are not by definition misogynistic. So STFU! Your use of nuclear armament for every slight is ineffective, inaccurate, and annoying (sorry was that last word tinged with too much gender specific connotation? I must be a misogynist).

The human brain does not perpetually house a persona or paradigm in full for every and all uses. We have fractional use based concepts that we rely on or leverage dynamically many times throughout any given day. Retailers use "customer" (hey I'm being dehumanized here.) Economists use "consumer" (ditto). My mother thinks of me as her son (I'm being infantalized. Is my mother castrating me?). When I'm extremely lucky I can still regard my wife as a nice piece of ass -- you may want to lock me up in a zoo, but it enabled us to do our part for the extension of the species (as if it deserves such a reprieve.)

The point is people pare things back all the time -- its a functional necessity, ladies. And this behavior extends to every facet of our lives so get used to it. And its funny sometimes (in Letterman's case it was not particularly funny, but so what?) and so we make jokes that juxtapose the superego's demand for polical correctness with the id's demand to not take everything so freaky seriously (for god's sake). In any case, ya win some and ya lose some and SO WHAT?

I'll say this, there's something terribly out of touch with you girls who can't take a joke (successful or no) and I'm certain that it is robbing you of your full experience of womanhood and humanhood, so my advice is go back out and come back in and stop calling everything you just don't get "misogyny."

1. Read more science: prevailing male attitudes towards women, especially of the kind expressed in Letterman's jokes are not misogynistic (do you use this sledge at every wiff of offense?)they are understandable, predictable, and inevitable at this stage in the evolution of the species -- get the fuck over it.

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2. Develop higher order emotional responses: Humor is a high order level of response to stress or confusion -- look into it. Empathy is also one you might check into. Men are not women (if you had any imaginative capacity you would soon realize that you couldn't tolerate a fem only culture, but don't worry its impossible to achieve). We don't have the same takes and we don't express the same feelings. Either find the validity in our "come-from" or bend over. I don't care which.

That is all, and consider yourself dismissed.

Two strikes and you're out. I will not read this drivel again until Salon gets real and renames this column "Ask a Douchebag."

This Douchebag, as well as most republican douchebags, are fundamentally unschooled in the reality that the universe is rife with "cause and effect relationships." They are well aware of the country club truism that "perception is reality," but they are loathe to accept that words have meaning, and actions have consequences; and that Michele Bachman is a dangerous dum dum (I guess that's redundant in the era of republican midgets like Newt, GWB, Boehner, and the rest (how could they make us miss Nixon more???))

This Douchebag, in her sanguine smuggery is a portrait of auto-entertainment and would no doubt go down in the flames of Rome quipping and snarking had not the adults who live and care about planet earth wrestled the reins of power away.

This Douchebag is devoid of seriousness or purpose, and if Salon believes that a weekly intelligence insult amounts to entertainment or engagement then we'll have to find a more approprate monicker for the whole of this increasingly tattering rag.

Why the broad brush, Glenn?

I've watch KO for many years with great interest. I don't always enjoy his segments and I don't always agree with him; but in the main I find him insightful, candid, and thorough.

In my view, KO has been on the mark with his praises and critiques of Obama, so I guess reject your frame.

As to the sad chapter KO introduced last night. I was pretty well sickened. I thought that Jonathan Alter provided good insight as to the pressures Obama is succumbing to. I don't however view them as sufficient rationale. I don't know that there is any.

If Obama wants a fight on this, he'll get one from me because I believe he is dead wrong (to borrow a phrase) on this, as I hope many do.

But check yourself on your frame, sir. You risk missing the point entirely.