It's time to renew my Salon premium account and, as an Obama supporter during the primaries, I have only recently returned after a 6 month hiatus.

Cautiously, I might add, because I was offended once too often last winter and spring by the aggressive Clinton bias.

Now this. I gave up mid-article when I realized that this was a serious article about reviving the Palin brand.

What were you thinking?

Well, here's what I'm thinking: I'm not renewing.

Sigh.

Grief. Such a universal emotion. But we don't allow enough space for it in our culture.

Cary, you got this one absolutely right. Listening. Hearing. Seeing another person in their time of grief. Feeling what they are feeling. Acknowledging the pain. That's what we all need. A witness.

LW, he's right. I have had much grief in my life. It continues. As I write this a dear cousin is dying.

I have found Cary's prescription to be exactly right. Find what brings you joy. Mark that. Come back to it always. It will carry you through.

Sheesh.

As a woman of a certain age who lost it all to chemo - and though the hair on my head returned, la bush is still on life support - I find this whole conversation preposterous.

I would love Love LOVE to have my whole damn bush back in all it's glory.

Do young women not understand that it disappears on it's own after menopause?

Revel in your glorious womanhood. It does not last forever.

Yelling. That's right. Arrested for yelling in his own home.

I personally know a young (white) man who was recently arrested in a friend's home for questioning a sherif's disrespectful behavior toward his girlfriend. Hand cuffed in a stress position, held in a squad car for 2 hours, taken to a holding tank for 20 hours and subsequently released on Easter Sunday without charges because he had the audacity to question the language the officer used when a gang of county sherifs in riot mode burst into a private home after a neighbor's noise complaint. None of the other young adults were arrested, just him. And the sherif made it clear it was because he verbally questioned the SWAT team tactics being used in a private home without a search warrant. It was pure harassment and intimidation.

What I see in this story is a police force out of control. We need to SEE the monsters we've allowed to grow in our midst and figure out how to rein them back in.

Black, white, yellow, brown, blue. It really doesn't matter. The person arrested could have been you or me. We need to understand that.