This review makes the The Proposal sound like No Reservations or The Devil Wears Prada, or, well, any number of others in which a single successful woman is presented some sort of monster and/or incurably lonely. I'm so tired of this theme in books and movies! Here's a better idea; single, successful female is courted by many because she's intelligent and dynamic (therin adoringly flubbed efforts to "catch" her ensue, followed by many laughs), but in the end decides she prefers her network of friends or her solitude. Now, that's a happy but not mushy ending!

I'm not sure which issue it was, but a woman who writes for GQ magazinge wrote in a sidebar to an article about cougars that if we're going to call women this, it's only right and fair to come up with an equally silly name for men who chase younger women. She decided they should be called dingos. Brilliant!

Did a pubic Mohawk come to be considered attractive, anyway?

she can't get another writing gig and has to do her own laundry.

but what O'Hehir says about S.F. in the late 70's is true, it was once working-class conservative. The old bastions of it were in the process of disintegrating after the liberal onslaught of the 60's, but were still mostly in place at the time. People often compare the Bay Area to New York (which we B.A. natives detest, BTW) but it's actually more like Chicago or Boston in the way it operates. The district Supervisors are, indeed very like mayors of their neighborhoods, or 'Wards', if you will. Just thought you might like to know.

some time ago that I would not let the conservative venom-spewers control the language of public discourse (therefore win the debate) by proclaiming proudly; "Yes, I'm a wine-sipping, tree-hugging California Liberal, DEAL WITH IT!"

Logging more hours doesn't make an employee more productive considering a lot of it could be wasted motion. And gee, I wonder why men with children still put in these hours and why women with children don't? *cough*chauvinism*cough*.

I'd also like to amend that I was never even desperate in my 30's. I'm also an over 40 urban professional. This fish never needed a bicycle. If I happen to meet someone I can grow old loving with who feels the same about me, I may marry him, but I'm not searching, worrying, obsessing, or otherwise unneccesarily expending energy on it and frankly, not only never did but wondered why anyone ever did.

of Jesus stopping a crowd from stoning an adulterous woman in which he uttered the immortal words; "Let ye without sin cast the first stone". The idea being that we're all error prone humans and we can forgive each other our trespasses. The writers of the bible were surely smart enough to realize they couldn't just state the point because no one would listen. But they would listen to an exciting story in which the hero saves a woman in distress from the jaws of death at the last possible second into which they could insert the point. And the whole point of that story is to teach us something about being human that is true. That is why people need their faiths. Yes, there are a lot of beliefs that are ridiculous. I think that's Maher's point. Those aside, both atheists and fundamentalists have got it wrong. This also reminds me of a passage from Douglas C. Adams. In it God was arguing with someone about creation, we asked, "But what about the babelfish?" God said, "I hadn't thought of that." Then Adams wrote; "And God disappeared in a puff of logic." Thereby, he made brilliant fun of both atheists and the devoutly religious.

are you still feminine if doctors have removed your breasts and ovaries is the same as asking are you still human if doctors have removed your kidney or prostate.

More or less a colonial empire. Making lots of noise about "the little guy" and human rights at home while trashing them and commiting all sorts of horrors in other, less advantaged countries to keep our wealth and power intact.

Surprise! The South! Yet Southerners resent people from other parts stereotyping them as rubes.

Don't people who earn more tend to have more experience, i.e. be older? The older people are the more likely they are to be "old school" in beliefs and attitudes? That might explain some of the discrepancy.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need someone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need someone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

To claim any media treatment of Palin is unfair or sexist. Hillary Clinton anyone? Michelle Obama anyone? What Palin's getting is nowhere near what Clinton and Obama have endured, not even close.