Jessica Valenti seems to have a pretty good take on how to promote feminism among younger women in contemporary America. Very little of it seems to have anything to do with "Boob Flashing" or other Sea Donkey stripper moves.

Yet the interviewer, Rebecca Traister, spent an inordinate amount of time on the subject, and the title of the article seemed obsessed with feminist boobs.

What is the agenda here, aside from composing article titles for maximum titillation value? Pardon the pun, but the biggest boobs in this story seem to be Salon's editors...

Great letter. You said exactly what I feel about my obnoxious vegan chums. They aren't happy unless they are feeling superior to the rest of us lowlives. They're just like the Gawd-botherers who have to tell you about their 'faith' and how wonderful it is and why you should convert immediately. These types are distinct from quiet religious types and people who practice their dietary concerns quietly.

Well, gawd bless em'! Cary should have told the letter writer to tell their 'friend', "I eat meat because I know how important it is for people like you to have someone to put down and feel superior to. Even though my health suffers, and my Karma is going to be a bitch, I care so much about your sense of relative esteem that take this burden on."

The worst thing that could happen to these types is that we all convert, either to veganism, or some other extreme "ism" of the month.

"I just got a little worked up when Andrew O'Hehir gets fighting mad about how the US treats the enemy, when our enemies BRUTALLY AND VISCIOUSLY(sic) CUT OFF OUR CITIZEN'S HEADS."

This creature named a several people who have been beheaded. The movie documents 36 people who have been murdered in our custody. Some of these people were completely innocent victims.

But we aren't supposed to be angry when people are being tortured and killed in our name because a completely different group of people are doing some bad things. So if the FBI tortures my innocent neighbor, I can't stick up for him because some mobster in Chicago is shooting people?

Total insanity. How can we stand up and demand that other countries, included those oh-so-evil "Islamicist" ones, follow the rules of civilization when we declare the rules don't apply, and go about breaking them on an industrial scale?

We can't. And we aren't. The world is not a better, safer, or more compassionate place since Bush and Cheney started brutalizing, torturing and killing those who might be our enemies. Life is getting nastier, more brutish and shorter all the time.

It's time to clean up our act and bring justice back to our cause. After we start treating our prisoners with justice and even compassion, we can start lecturing the rest of the world about how they're acting.

And if we are walking the walk, they might actually listen to us when we talk. Right now, they're laughing at us. Except for the ones who are picking up stones and knives and looking for revenge.

There isn't anything else to say. You laid out the problem beautifully, with calm and reason.

You nailed it.

You totally nailed it.

Just like Little George is nailed by his big buddy Dick.

The little dickhead is totally dominated by the nasty, old, Dick.

I didn't know Al Gore is the cause of Global Warming (BTW Ruben, he just got approval to solarize the family home--it required a change in local building codes to do it).

And if rude people had to pay money to hire other people to nice to balance out their asshole ways, that would be a good thing too!

Yay offsets!

Both my children were born at home, midwife attended, but with prenatal supervision and evaluation by a obstetrician. My wife and I had two very powerful experiences together, and were able to have our children home with us, immediately, closely and peacefully. I sincerely believe this was very good for both us and our children.

However, friends of ours embarked on a similar journey, except the umbilical cord got ahead of the baby in the birth canal, cutting off the blood flow to the fetus. They made a frantic trip to the hospital, with the midwife's hand inside the mother, trying to hold the baby head away from the pelvic floor so it wouldn't cut off its own blood flow and die.

It didn't work. The baby died. A hospital caesarian would have routinely saved that baby.

This is a rare complication, but it presents itself. When I heard the horrible news, my heart dropped to my stomach. I couldn't imagine how I would have felt if that had been one of my children (both were born at the time).

If I had to do it all over again, I would do things the same way. Yet, I would never condemn someone else for making a different choice.