Reminds me of the old Beastie Boys' line: "If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page/The girls I like are underage."

I had the good fortune to go to highschool in Australia in the golden age of the early 80s - after the sexual revolution, but before political correctness.

A number of female teachers at my school slept with students, and I had the pleasure of losing my virginity to my french conversation teacher.

I looked at the one surviving photo of the two of us the other day, and it brought back fond memories, nothing more. If you banish power imbalances from sexual relationships, you'll have precious few sexual relationships left.

I'm inspired to jump in a time-machine, go back to the early 80s, kill one of the members of Duran Duran, cut his head off, bring the head back to the present, and get his finely-chiselled face in place of my own.

I can't believe Salon is printing crap like this.

"the larger, global "clash" launched by Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush in 2001"???!!!????

And since when does hatred of a religion (which I happily cop to with respect to islam)count as "racism"?

David Horowitz, where are you when we need you?

Christina Aguilera will be to the 21st century what Frank Sinatra was to the 20th.

"Back to Basics" isn't the masterpiece she's capable of, but listen to "Save Me From Myself" for a hint of what's to come.

Ditch the baby songs and baby music, do mix tapes of 50s Frank Sinatra and whatever music YOU like that is both jolly and soothing. Don't dumb-down your converation, be as quick, witty and irreverent talking to your child as you would be in conversation with adults, s/he will be stimulated by it and will seek to emulate you.

..and love to sing along with it, which must look pretty silly, given that I'm a 41-year-old staright guy.

They might as well have called it the "clitorechtomy swimsuit".

By this logic, Clinton should have resigned in 94.

Check this out: http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/252orqto.asp

What is striking about this colection of reminiscences is how utterly cold, formulaic and unfeeling the exerpt from Ms Clinton's book is, compared to all the others.

I'm sorry for stating the obvious, but this week's assinine response was just the last fucking straw. OF COURSE the kid has the hots for the writer. What planet is Tennis living on????? I think she should fuck the kid's brains out.

Since I was so rude about a Cary Tennis answer last week, I felt if appropriate to say how clever and sensible today's advice is.

I love Maureeen Dowd's column, but as a matter of principle, I am not going to pay a sum for it that covers both my annual Salon and Weekly Standard subscriptions.

I have very fond memories of Merv, cause an audio version of his show used to play on Melbourne radio at 11:00pm when I was a teenager growing up in Australia. In those (Australian) pre-cable days, it represented a very rare glimpse of Hollywood glamour, and he came accross as a genuinely nice guy. ... And he was no dummy either: he had David Letterman on just after Letterman's daytime series had been cancelled, he assured him that daytime was an impossible challenge for Letterman's style of comedy, and predicted a big career for him in late night.

Please, please, please can we have more strips featuring UGG???

We last saw Spock on Romulus, where he was part of an underground movement.

He could still feature in a new film.

Because vulcans have such long life-spans, Spock is the one original character that can be featured in the Next Generation/Voyager timeline, without resorting to gimmicks.

It is absolutely outrageous to label any image of a late adolescent as "child porn", especially images of a female who would be above the age of consent in an overwhelming majority of jurisdictions in the world.

"Child porn" relates to pre-pubescent children, and there are two important reasons for banning it:

1. protecting the "models"; and

2. guarding against contributing to faulty thinking on the part of pedophiles that their sexual desire for pebuscent children is somehow "okay".

If I was ever pussy-whipped to the point where I felt guilty about being aroused by images of 17 year-old girls, I would hope someone would take me out and shoot me.

After seeing the photos, I agree that the model is way, way too thin - but that's a different debate.

Both Obama and Huckabee are genuine, massively-appealing cross-over candidates. A presidential contest between the two of them would be utterly rivetting.

Does anyone else see the dis-connect in Ms Clark-Flory labelling pictures of a 17 year old girl "child porn" in one posting, then chatting matter-of-factly about a 16 year old girl being free to do whatever she wants with her body, a few days later?

Please can there be another Ugg strip before Super Tuesday???

The "neocons" - whose dominant trait is being hawkish on foreign policy - have been with McCain for weeks; just browse through the last few issues of "The Weekly Standard" if you doubt it. The people denouncing McCain are crazed far-right idealogues, not neocons.

My prayers have been answered!

Will there be UGG merchandise?

(I still think the blank slate candidate is meant to be Obama, despite Obama's appearance in panel 5.)

Unlike Hillary Clinton or Dick Morris' wife, Silda Wall looks really, REALLY fuckable in all thsse public appearances with her husband. My reaction - and presumably that of many, many other heterosexual men - is: "What a schmuck Spitzer is for mucking around with hookers when he has such a hot woman at home!" ...So she WINS!!!!