We just got a nice front loader (six months ago) for about $600. Never made a better purchase.

Uses less water--check.

Uses less detergent--check (Hey morons, if you want less soap on your clothes, use less soap on your stupid clothes. It uses less water, so it needs less soap!)

Gets clothes cleaner--check (Instead of stirring with a stick, a front loader runs the water through the clothes, getting everything nicely agitated.)

Clothes last longer--Check (see above). Also, no twisted knickers that get caught in the agitator.

Clothes dry faster--check (Wringing out more water means less water to dry. Also give the LIE to the dumbass rinse phobia. If you wring better, you rinse better as well. How stupid can some people be?)

Clothes rise better--check. (Contrary to some foolish ideas, a front loader rinses just as well as an inferior top loader, because it wrings out the original soapy wash water better. So there is less soapy stuff to rinse out.)

Less drying makes clothes last even longer--check.

Weird smell? What fricken planet are you on? Empty your washer when it is done.

Anybody who buys anything but a front loader for a new washer is a complete and utter moron. Top loaders are obsolete and should be banned.

Is that clear enough for ya?

"Gee, thanks for the attitude there, buddy. I was intrigued by the front-loader possibilities, but you've just about soured me on it, in case you're wondering."

Gee, with decision-making skills like this, you're going to find yourself doing all kinds of silly things. If some jerk who is stopped at a red light flips you off, are you going to run it in response?

I'm sorry if I was rude. Clarren's column frustrates me because she constantly equivocates about environmental decisions, creating doubt where there really isn't any, and often uses extremely dubious logic (for example, a previous columnn where she compared hybrids to non-hybrids using highway mileage, where hybrid technology doesn't provide an advantage). I'm sick of it, and probably won't be reading the column any more.

So you can look forward to more politeness in the future! Rejoice!

But don't make decisions based on somebody else's attitude. Unless you really want to.

It's not going to affect me personally either way.

P.S. I wish I had caught that misspelling of "rinse" as "rise" though...

The worst troll duo in the White House folder takes a 12 day vacation, the Repugnicons hold a gawd-awful debate, the White House Counsel is caught wasting Taxpayer money destroying evidence in an investigation of Karl Rove, and Henry Hyde dies.

What a fantastic time to down Table Talk for 24 hours! Couldn't you have mirrored the servers? Now we'll probably suffer through weeks of breakdowns while the bugs get ironed out of the new hardware (mirroring would have allowed you to test the setup).

We. Are. Not. Amused.

Now I don't have any excuses for ignoring my emails! Drat!

You can't wash away fleas in the shower.

Fleas don't live on you. They just visit for dinner, while you're asleep. They live and lay their eggs in your bedding.

If you're worried about fleas, wash your sheets. And keep your cats/dogs from sleeping on your bed.

Good article.

I echo the other writer who said the creators are apparently capable of learning from criticism. Thank god they settled on a readable font!

If this had been the first panel of the comic, I would have said; "Meh, whatever. Somebody will probably like it."

Now it may be too late.

But I do plan on enjoying the witty snark Kansas and similar abominations such as Paglia generate so, well, generously.

On to the silver lining!