I'm having trouble understanding the fuss about anonymity. If the nasty letters are also coming from people with screennames, well, I don't get the difference between posting with a username that doesn't identify the poster and posting anonymously. I've written letters in the past using my own name. What was wrong with that system?

I think a more serious issue is that this site is no longer what it used to be. There was lots of important political stuff, of course, but there were also writers like Anne Lamott, Ariel Gore, etc. who wrote interestingly and compellingly about motherhood and Just Life.

The film reviewers sparked my interest much more than they do now. I don't remember if there was a TV reviewer back in that day, before the self-fascinated and oh-so-biting-and-clever HH, but it sure would be lovely to have someone good covering that beat now. I'd love to read analyses of everything from Glenn Close on Damages to the Democratic debate on Monday night. I used to be a screenwriter in L.A. and there is an amazingly amount of film quality material on television these days. Yes, you have Video Dog, but I'm 55 and not a YouTuber like the Youngsters.

Please consider having regular Life columnists again. The politics are relentlessly depressing, as fascinating as all the outrages are. Some of us need a break and some creativity to get us through the day.

Thank you for your time and consideration,

Theodora L'Engle Knight

Hillary pulled it off. She looked radiant in orange. The make-up and lighting were perfection. She was smooth-skinned and vibrant, a far cry from the haggard and shrill woman she appeared by the end of that ennervating campaign. She, thank God, was funny and, for her, she was generous since she loathes sharing the spotlight. She gave people like me hope, as did Michelle Obama. This was manna from heaven to someone like me who is 56 and now poor from struggling with a brain tumor with completely inadequate health insurance. Now living in low-income senior housing and living with the humiliation of being so downwardly mobile.

There hideous PUMA people are mentally ill!!! Hillary lost. Get over it. This is mental illness to even consider voting for McCain. What happened to caring about those who are less fortunate, which I thought was the credo of the Democratic party? These bitter women must be spoiled and affluent if they would even consider voting for McPain when people in this country, like me, are so desperate to stay afloat in this economy and with the damage that this evil administration has wrought.

Hillary will have her day. Is this sexism? Hell, yes. Does it suck? You bet. Sexism is more rampant in this country than racism is. Deal with it. And get on to the business of taking care of all of us. Hey, PUMAs, you nevah know, as my Boston relatives say. I went to Harvard and Berkeley. I was affluent. I was accomplished and smug about it. My husband's illness and death from pancreatic cancer and my own wiped us out financially, cost us 100s of thousands of dollars. This could happen to you too. This could happen to many many many more of us if huge changes are not made.

I'm exhausted from giving you all a sliver of my mind, which is all I can spare these days. :)

One question, since I am not clear on politics as I used to be. Is Hillary more powerful in the Senate or in a Cabinet position? Probably Senator. Whatever leads her to her, I hope, inevitable presidency.

Stop sulking and whining and, media, stop focusing on those who are doing that. Maureen Dowd, just shut up. Unity is vital now. A McPain win is terrifying. The man can't even use a computer or the Internet. Why is no one talking about this???