So many letters here seem to take the approach that if you support Hillary, then you must hate Barrack, or vice versa, that your loyalty to one candidate can be equally measured by your distaste for his or her rival. How silly. The prevalent idea seems to be that people are going to vote either race or gender and that's that. I wonder how people come to this conclusion, despite all evidence to the contrary?

Did any of these people see the debate in California, or listen to the loud audience cheers when it was suggested that these two run on a joint ticket? It is an odd phenomena to see that normally rational adults believe that in order to be a partisan for one candidate that they absolutely must demonize the other candidate. It's as if, in order to justify your desire for one person over another that the alternative choice must be so bad that your position is unassailable.

Thank God most people do not feel this way.

I, perhaps like the vast majority of Democrats, like both Senators Clinton and Obama. I like them both a lot and while I cast my primary vote for one of them, I certainly would not be upset if the other got the nomination. My feelings on this matter are reflected in the cheers and applause that rose up from that Democratic debate in California - give me an Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama ticket and I would be deliriously happy to elect both of these ground breaking historic candidates to office in whatever combination ends up forming.

If anything, this should be a time for celebrating instead of bickering. We have two great candidates and with a little luck we will have one awesome ticket for the fall. We should be passing out high fives and patting ourselves on the back, instead of trying to emulate the increasing vitriol of the Republican campaign.

Trey, I can't wait to read your book. Your situation in life has no simularities at all to mine (I'm younger, married, never divorced, no kids) yet I find the very idea of what you are going through utterly intriguing. I suppose this is because out of the entire "divorced with kids" genre, male-centric stories possibly account for an infinitesimal percentage of available literature.

So anyway, like I said, I'm hooked. If for no other reason than to find out if you did eventually decide to push your ex out of your house and start shagging the nanny. Two ideas I think I could support wholeheartedly.

Also, as a total aside from the topic at hand:

To you lovely Broadsheet Feminists:

While I do not subscribe to Anoymous's strategy of pre-emptive whinging, the fact remains that the way in which his remarks were attacked with such vitriol does suggest to a degree that the belief of his detractors is that this issue does not exist. Which ironically, only supports his position.

All I can say on this matter is that I'm 30 year old man that grew up in a world where nearly every male role model in the popular media was either violent, argumentative, abusive, stupid, deceitful, or a buffoon who was roundly mocked by his girlfriend, or wife, or his wive's girlfriends, or even his own children. And yeah, it kinda did make me feel bad about myself.

But it's ok, because even though I'm not allowed to talk about it in public, at least I still have the internet... Right?

I think Sarah Hepola took the cheap shot here and in doing so glossed over the more pertinent points in Lori Gottlieb's article. I've noticed that this has happened, um, how do we say... more than a few times in the past here at the Broadsheet. I hope that, for seemingly intelligent commentators, that they'll start being a little more insightful soon.

Putting aside the unmitigated gall of Lori Gottlieb telling her peer group what they think, she has some valid points. She doesn't say that women should just out right settle in so much as they should rethink their priorities as to what makes a "Mr. Right" (or Mr. Left if you're a Salon reader I suppose).

There is undeniably a huge difference between how someone thinks of relationships and what they value in them from the age of 20 to the age of 40. To me it seems that Lori Gottlieb is saying that if you are in your 30's and possibly alone and upset about it, then maybe you are holding on to the wrong end of that bell curve and it's time to grow up a little bit.

Obviously I think she probably should have chosen a different tact than putting it in her readers face. If for no other reason than so people would be more likely to see her useful message and spend less time focusing on knee jerk reactions. *cough*Sarah Hepola*cough*

Anyway, this is good advice that most professionals have been giving for years. It seems like it comes up periodically like a mark of passage for women turning 30 and quite frankly asides from the seemingly misplaced criticism by Ms. Hepola, I'd more expect to see a topic like this in Cosmo than Salon.

I suppose the standard of women's journalism is a hard one to bear?

That video was the best thing to come from this strip since it's inception! My hat is off to you Harold, if you were looking for recognition and props, then let me tell you my man you earned them.

Now, if you can make Family Circus as entertaining as that then I'd say you have a job waiting for you in Hollywood.