Good for Wallace. Why the hell didn't he, or someone - anyone - ask that question when it should have been asked, in 2000, when Bush was running for office in the first place?

...maybe you shouldn't be a doctor. Just a thought.

As for Jessica's comments, you clearly have a lot of anger to deal with - could it be that it has more to do with your cousin's specific situation than gay parents in general? Because I have both friends and family who are gay parents with perfectly happy, well-adjusted kids, and on the whole, all evidence shows that children of gay parents are no worse off than their straight-parented counterparts. In fact, they may be better off, because straight parents often get pregnant unexpectedly, and wind up with kids they're not financially or emotionally prepared to raise. That doesn't happen to gay couples.

And all this hand-writing about "not having a father" is crap. How many kids out there are raised by a single mother on her own? You can't tell me someone with two loving parents, both female, is worse off.

Where do we go from here? Or, put another way, what ever happened to the War on Terror? In invading Iraq, Bush pulled virtually all of our resources away from dismantling Al Qaeda and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. I believe the phrase "dead or alive" was used prominently, then quickly forgotten.

So, if we do wrap up our misadventure in Iraq, where does that leave us in regards to 9/11? Do we finally get around to going after the perpetrators? Do we pretend that installing a friendly government in Iraq somehow provides closure for the 9/11 attacks, despite a complete and utter lack of connection between the two things? Or do bin Laden and his people have to kill a few thousand more American to remind us who our enemy actually is, before Bush sits up and takes the action he should have taken on 9/12/01?

Cynthia, handing out report cards is the purpose of education; drug use is illegal. Monitoring students' love lives has no educational or legal purpose. It's patently absurd to say that if the school has no business outing students, it has no business grading them.

...if King keeps it up. If every week, you write about how "the Colts are going to lose in the next few weeks," isn't that like reverse-jinxing them, and insuring that they'll keep winning?

According to Jerry Fallwell, 9/11 happened because of "feminists, abortionists and gays." Damn you, feminists!!!

Don't forget, though, that there are a certain number of people who, for whatever emotional or psychological reasons, just can't hold a marraige together, although they try several times. I got married at 26. I'm hoping my wife and I will be toasting our 50-year anniversary one day. That means I show up in the under-27 group as a 1-0. But say I'm a complete asshole. I cheat on my wife constantly, I come home drunk, etc. She kicks me to the curb. I repeat the process with wives 2-6. Now I show up in the under-27 group as 0-1, but also in the over-27 group as 0-5. That heavily weights the over-27 group negatively.

Just because the men you go out with don't give you the respect you feel you deserve doesn't mean such men don't exist. And you think someone who's fucking you because you're paying them is going to be overflowing with respect and post-feminist understanding?

In right-wing Newspeak, "expressing your opinion" is code for "blatantly lying, but in a way that helps our cause." The same way "rewriting history" is code for "telling inconvenient truths", and "freedom" is code for "American military hegemony". Just replace those phrases, and things both Cindy and George W. say start to make more sense.

Judith Miller has the right to blatantly lie on our behalf.

Critics of the war have been trying to tell inconvenient truths.

Our soldiers in Iraq are fighting for American military hegemony.

If you're against the war, you're against American military hegemony.

Operation Enduring American military hegemony.

It all makes a lot more sense. Someone should really put out a translation guide.