In Bush's Dumbed Down America we can no longer make coherent arguments for what we believe in so we attack people who represent anything that we disagree with. Anonymous misogynist attacks, personal attacks, anonymous threats, Swiftboating: is there really any difference. Once again, I am so proud of the leadership that this madman's administration is providing us.

I hope that Salon can find a way to keep you here as a permanent contributor. You have helped raised the bar with your detailed analysis and your gift for concisely explaining complex issues.

I bought collections of green household products (floor, kitchen, and bathroom cleaners, laundry detergent, biodegradable wipes, leather cleaners, etc.), added some other products such as Power Plumber which uses pressurized gas to unclog drains, biodegradable garbage bags, etc., and wrapped them in colorful, re-usable shopping bags.

I shopped at the Pacifica Alternative Gifts Fair and made donations on behalf of friends and family to provide shelter to dogs, cats, and the homeless, to protect gorillas, and equipment for beach restoration.

For my younger relatives, I also added a gift card to the itunes store with the following note on it: By buying music from the Apple Store, you are helping to prevent a stack of CD's 2.6 miles high from having to be manufactured PER DAY.

I'm not exactly sure how these gifts will be received (some friends I've told are aghast, others loved it so much they borrowed my idea) but I know that it has filled me with cheer!

I love the energy and ability to craft a message that Obama brings to the Democratic party - something that we have been desperately missing. The night before Super Tuesday I filled in Obama's name on my absentee ballot. The next morning, I woke up, surrendered my ballot and voted for Clinton. There were three reasons that I made this change.

First, I think that Obama statements that he is battle ready and compares the campaign that he has fought with Clinton to the campaign that he would need to fight with the Republicans and the fight the he would be facing if he were elected shows how naive he is. I don't like everything that Clinton does, but I can see how much of it has been in reaction to the lessons she learned trying to redefine health care in this country.

Second, one of the reasons that I like Obama is that he represents change, big change. Except, that he has made sure that when he could stand up for change he has taken himself out of the controversy. Examples are his "present" votes on abortion issues in Illinois, his refusal to be seen in the same room with Gavin Newsom, and his unavailability during controversial senate votes.

Third, Obama's statement that Clinton would never get the votes that he is bringing into the party sounds too much like a veiled threat to me. While neither candidate has pledged to support the winner (a pledge they should both make), it is only from the Obama camp that I am hearing what sounds to me like threats to walk and take his supporters with him if he loses.

I don't see any difference between Shuster's pimping remark and Imus' comment about the "nappy-headed hos", which also occurred on MSNBC. Imus' comment followed a comment by the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, who called the team "hard-core hos."

Why would anyone think that it would be ok for white men on a network that purports to be a news network to refer to accomplished women as whores? It would appear that this behavior is acceptable within the culture of the network. A network that I might add is licensed by the United States Government on behalf of all Americans. Hilary is correct to stand up for this. All women, no, all Americans, should stand up for this.

I am not sure what lines you were reading between to find that I was proposing to pull licenses or to curtail freedom of speech. Maybe you should check your glasses because they seem to be coloring the way that you perceive the world.

For the third time in a matter of months, a newsman on MSNBC has thought that it is totally appropriate to refer to an accomplished woman a whore. The fact that all of the fallout from Imus' and his executive producer's inappropriate comments had no effect on Shuster, and the fact that all of that has still had no effect on a male that is presumably intelligent enough to be reading Salon, is an issue of serious significance.

But hey, that is ONLY a woman's issue so it can't be very important, now can it?

Full disclosure - read my other postings and you will see that I was very torn between voting for Obama and Clinton and will support whoever wins.