I saw a short interview with Petit in the PBS series on the history of New York City, and he got the idea for this feat when he was sitting in his dentist's office reading a magazine and saw a picture of the two towers. He ripped it out of the magazine and left immediately to start planning. Other funny tidbits include that when he finally came inside, he was arrested and charged with a number of silly things, including my favorite, which was "performing in public without a permit." I should say so. He was given a lifetime pass to visit the decks of the twin towers. I am really afraid of heights and even reading about this stunt gave me butterflies, so I am not sure whether I will actually go and see the movie.

Of course, the meds are the most likely culprit. But I wonder about the effect of psychotherapy on some people. When undergoing it (not very well I am afraid) I actually felt a stronger attachment to my therapist at the time than I did to my husband. First, just the process of undergoing therapy can make a person much more self-involved. Second, my weekly sessions highlighted for me certain real frustrations and deficiencies in the way my husband communicated with me and others. It was something the therapist zeroed in on, because it was pretty obvious. None of it was intentional, but it brought home to me that when people are told to visit a therapist there is often a presumption that getting better means that everyone around them will be happier with who they are during and after therapy, but that's not always the case. My advice: LW needs to be able to communicate with her husband's psychiatrist, with or without husband being present (but obviously with his consent).

I am a 40 something Obama supporter with two daughters, and I think NARAL took this step for its own good. NARAL needs to reach out to younger women, who are far more likely to support Obama, and who certainly don't see it as a betrayal to vote for a man if they like his policies. Endorsing earlier rather than later is more likely to gain the awareness and gratitude of younger Obama female supporters, who have endured their share of disdain from Clinton's generally older female supporters. As with so much else in the primary campaign, the lurking variable is much more likely to be age rather than gender.

Look, she has said that she will be in it until there is a nominee. What Clinton supporters are endorsing by asking everyone to "hold off" is a big game of chicken where she won't leave until they tell her to, and they can't tell her to until she says it's okay. Something has to give.

I like Hillary Clinton. I find it very painful that the ending is so protracted, but her "plan" for success is, basically, for the complete capitulation of Obama supporters, who she will somehow woo back with our fear about the Supreme Court. A super delegate coup would really send me over the edge. While I would probably still vote for her, the unfairness of such an outcome would alienate many. Ergo, we need to move to resolution. Is everyone supposed to put their own interests on hold until she approves? I thought she was the tough one among all the nancy boys, what with her three cojones and testicular fortitude, and now we have to tiptoe around and not play to win, lest we hurt her feelings? Does no one see the irony or the inconsistency here? Showing toughness in defeat is the toughest kind of tough.

If it matters, I am a middle-aged female.

The reason isn't bribes. The reason is the potential to attract younger supporters. NOW and NARAL have an aging base of membership, and at least NOW, has lost many "middle aged" supporters like me who used to be active. I suspect NARAL has too. The generations often have difficulty speaking to each other. I have tried very, very hard to understand Clinton's base of older female supporters because my mother is one of them. It's personal for them, I get that, in a way that it isn't personal for younger women because they haven't felt like they were swimming upstream all their lives to reach a goal that was unattainable just because they were women.

I get all of that. But as a mother of teenagers, it has dawned on me more than once that our children much as we love them not only are sometimes strangers, but have the righ and even the duty to be so. These younger women who support Obama are success stories made possible by second generation feminists. It's our duty to make sure that they understand that they don't owe us anything more than living their lives as they see fit, so that we don't become the kind of albatross around their neck that many of us worked hard to shake off for ourselves. Give them a break.

But just to reinforce it: Rebecca Walker's raison d'etre appears to be to make a living off of her mother's name and notoriety. One wonders: if relations were friendlier would her work attract nearly so much attention? Why isn't she writing odes to Judy?

Like Augusten Burroughs and the rest of the professional narcissists who sadly comprise an increasing percentage of perceived authorial talent, Ms. Walker has her horrible parent to thank for almost everything, probably including her son (no doubt conceived in spite).