Tanmack,

It’s curious to me that you think noticing skin color equals racism. What does noticing other physical features mean? I’ve never been around a blonde or brunette where I for one minute forgot what their hair color was. Does that make me prejudiced towards one or the other? I know a guy who’s a little person. I’ve never once forgotten somehow that he was a little person. It’s an obvious physical fact. How does that illustrate some sort of antagonism or prejudice on my part? I'm gay. Never once forgotten which of my friends are gay or straight. Is that homophobia?

AC Calhoun,

When you use a phrase like “a social critic of the stature of Lenny Bruce” you've destroyed what Lenny Bruce stood for.

Jeff Bowles,

…Ah, Clothar already said it better.

That whites using the n-word are emulating blacks they admire. They aren't using it as Bubba from the Klan did, or as White Brotherhood morans still undoubtably do, to demean. They are doing it to be like the hip-hop artists and culture they think is cool. Just as they use the terms "player" "pimp", etc. To miss this, to miss the impetus for using the word, is to go seriously wrong in evaluating the state of race relations in our society.

Whether this makes it okay or not is, of course, a very different question. But it isn't coming from an antagonistic space. It's coming from the same sort of motivation that made kids in the 50's grow ducktails in imitation of Elvis or race cars imitation of James Dean, or kids in the 60's to grow their hair to their shoulders and join anti-war protests in imitation of John Lennon. People learn who they want to be and how they want to act from the images in society available to them.

It might have been preferable in people based their identity on Martin Luther King, Jr. rather than 50 Cent, but that's the way it is.

It's none of our business. It was a private message that should not have been made public.

Tolkien would not have wanted a video game of his series to allow for gay marriage, therefore a Lord of the Rings game shouldn't allow it. I'm gay, don't agree with Tolkien, but his wishes should be respected concerning a game based on his work.

Sorry to see The Fix go. Not my favorite feature, but I did check in everyday, and will miss it.

Please, please, whatever revamping of Video Dog occurs, do not get rid of Rabbit Bites. Love those bunnies.

The Imus issue is not just about the first amendment. He was at work. If I, for instance, called all the women in my company's accounting department "nappy-headed hoes", or referred to customers that way, I'd get fired too. Arrested, no; deported, no; fired, yes.

-- MadTown

Well, there are different job descriptions for shock jocks and accountants. I'm sure Imus and Howard Stern and all sorts of radio personalities, not to mention the sketch artists on SNL and MadTV, get away with language and subjects that would not be considered acceptable in your workplace.

It was so obvious what negative consequences would be set off by firing Imus. For, in fact, censoring his speech. Speech which did not cross FCC boundaries. I'm happy to see the negative impact taking effect so quickly, before people can forget the cause. People always seem to want only their speech protected by the First Ammendment. But it doesn't work that way. This is a perfect example of the slippery slope in action.

To contradict the opening sentence, there are no intriguing mysteries about JFK’s death. And his brother planned to re-open the case upon entering the White House (not that there was anything to uncover).

There is no story here. None at all. He was shot by Oswald. No shadows in the grassy knoll. Get over it.

To contradict the closing sentence, this story does not matter. It’s conspiracy theories for nutcases. That is, for those who have already solved the mystery about what’s really on the one dollar bill.