The LW talks about having anxieties about her father.

She should identify them and then decide how to talk to her father.

If she's worried if he's sick, ask him. If she's worried that she failed him as a daughter, ask him.

I think she's afraid that he'll die without her having fulfilled "her destiny" as his daughter. I think she's worried about alot of things she can't control and a few she can.

It doesn't sound like she talks to him much. If she wants to clear the air with him, she should sit down at a pre-arranged date with him and tell him what she's feeling, her worries and then listen to him.

Parents do die. Sometimes prematurely. She should not only talk to her father, but also a psychiatrist to identify why she's having all the anxiety attacks, and how to stop them.

Living life in future tense does not allow for living in the present.

He decries the war publicly on TV, and says he had nothing to do with it. He declares that it was someone else doing all the decision making. He just did his job.

His job was to tell the President what intelligence he had to go after the bad guys, and he didn't. He aided and abetted an illegal and immoral war-and now it appears that he is profiting from that war he says he didn't want or helped start.

Must be nice to have no morals or scruples. Guess that is the cost of being in Washington too long-one forgets to check their ethical compass. He certainly has.

He has blood on his hands just as surely as everyone connected with starting this war does.

About how many times he had sex with hookers, and got an STD.

None of his business to tell her anything about her mother's past medical history.

Why the hell would he want to do this anyway unless it was some form of emotional blackmail to get back at his ex-wife.

What a jerk!

The LW says in more or less oblique fashion she's miserable in her marriage and that she thinks she got married for the wrong reasons.

First, everyone does get married for the wrong reasons..be it love, money, status or whatever. It's what you make of the marriage that makes it work, or not.

Second, are her children old enough to ask if they're in favor of her staying in the marriage or leaving. They're the secondary victims of anything she does, and they should be consulted if possible.

If they're not, well...take your chances.

Either way, it's up to you. You're an adult, you can make good choices or bad, and only with time will you know if divorce is going to be a bad choice-kind of like marriage.

(I'm echoing Cary..sorry!)

Also-get a lawyer, if you're going to do anything, ok? They're useless most of the time, but if you have any property at all, they can save your butt.

Good luck.

There won't be any spring rebound for the housing market for a very long time. Their product has been oversold and overpriced for 10 years.

Perhaps when it is all over the prices of houses will return to some sanity. Until then, you will see skyrocketing foreclosures and lots of auctions.

because it requires critical thinking. Americans are not taught to read properly, between the lines or to read for pure enjoyment. It's not taught as being "fun".

They're taught from an early age that reading is only necessary to school, and no more. Thus, when one grows up, reading is not a "must" and book reviews have no place in their lives.

No wonder we have such an illiterate populace-reading isn't easy to digest, and it makes you think!

Thus book reviewers are being cut because nobody cares enough to save them. If the NY Times cut their weekly Book Review, I think there'd be a revolt, though!

The Attorney General should shut the hell up before he gets subpoena'd as a hostile witness to Congress. His arrogance is overwhelming, and I hope someone in the Senate Judiciary Committee tells him to go fuck himself.

What bloody audacity!

Does anyone here realize that with the death of Habeus Corpus, any person in the United States can be jailed without charges indefinitely?

It doesn't just apply to detainees. It extends to anyone the Justice Department and the administration deem important enough to deny them the right of any rights.

The Senate has failed disgracefully in protecting the rights of Americans against this kind of injustice.

As someone who has an intimate knowledge of the Great Writ (long story, no time to tell), I can say with a certainty that if we do not restore the Habeus Writ to all people detained by the United States, the Constitution is a piece of used toilet paper.

It is indeed the worst single legal precedent ever enacted in this country's history, and a black mark against our vaunted "democratic" ideals.

that nothing is going to change; the NY Times professes as much today in an article about Gonzales. The paper noted that Gonzales himself thinks that he has weathered the storm and that some key Senators do too.

Which means the White House has succeeded in perverting the Justice Department and its' mission.

God Almighty, I will be so glad when the damned elections are here-we will finally shake this corrupt and brain damaged administration once and for all. November 2008 seems a long way off from where I sit.

The very thought is depressing.