This reminds me of a Simpson episode, where the nuclear power plant owner Montgomery Burns is running for office and decides it'd be a great photo op the night before the election to have dinner with a regular family. Of course he chooses the Simpsons. Lisa is disgusted at the idea and can't believe her family is going along supporting this phony political BS. Marge turns to her and says, "Never underestimate your mother, Lisa." They all sit down to dinner, surround by reporters and photographers. Marge brings out the main course on a covered dish and puts it down in front of Mr. Burns. She lifts off the cover and there sits the three eyed fish that lives in the water runoff from the nuclear power plant. She goad him into eating it. He cuts out a bite, puts it in his mouth and then spits it out, with reporters covering every minute of it. Needless to say he lost the election.

I'm glad that the women of the View took him to task somebody needed to do it. They've redeemed their credibility in my eyes.

Really Salon, why do you keep publishing the work of this obnoxious instigator who long ago lost any relevancy?

The first time I remember hearing a politician use this expression it was the Governor of Texas Anne Richards. It's been used all over the place since then....it's now a cliche. All politicians should stop using it immediately because it's played out.

> The Palin nomination will be celebrated as a measure of social progress by optimists like my friend Joan Walsh.

As a woman, I am insulted by this choice of nomination.....as if I would vote for someone simply because of what is between their legs and not what stand for. It reeks to me of sexism. McCain is more likely to get support from the Christian right on this choice, then from any well-informed conscious women.

I mean he is the nominee right? I know he probably wants to make a grand entrance, but in the interest of party unity, I think it would have made sense for him to be there. He's campaigning in Montana when all of the action is in Denver, I don't get it.

try yoga. drop your brain, be more flexible in your ideas of how the world "should be", learn to accept how it is and how it is constantly changinge. there are things to be hopeful about, find out about them. see where you can contribute to make things better. do something positive that makes someone else feel better.

Web design and coding. I have been designing and developing websites and company identities online and offline for 13+ years. I starting working on the web when most of you were still sucking on pacifiers.

Making art out of recycled materials. I have been making art out of garbage for years. My art has been installed in parks around San Francisco and shown in galleries. I have led community groups to create and execute projects out of recycled materials. I am currently leading an effort to build a sculpture garden in San Francisco's Bayview using native plants and found objects (if anyone knows sources of funding for this, please contact me, ASAP. I've applied for a ton of grants, alas so far to no avail, but I have not given up.) I was featured on the Discovery Channel for building a lowrider cycle powered by a chainsaw that looks like a phoenix.

Cooking I'm a great chef, too!

What an utterly condescending and patronizing article! It sickens me to read such arrogant tripe.

It is legal in Nevada. It would be interesting to get some data for how it is working there. Prostitution, in general, is sex without intimacy. That may be one of the things men and women who participate in it are seeking. Possible motivations aside, it sure won't be going away any time soon, I say legalize it and make it less dangerous for the people participating in it.

If so many politicians have sex with prostitutes, how come they haven't legalized it? It's obvious they have the power to do so, and they indulge in the services. What irks me is the hypocrisy, they say it's bad and denounce it, but they go right out there and do it. We need to be a more honest society. I really wasn't surprised by this at all by this situation, I guess I'm just another cynical Gen-X-er. Honest Politician is a contradiction in terms, but I don't think it has to be.

...perhaps the reason they keep prostitution illegal is to oust each other....

If so many politicians have sex with prostitutes, how come they haven't legalized it? It's obvious they have the power to do so, and they indulge in the services. What irks me is the hypocrisy, they say it's bad and denounce it, but they go right out there and do it. We need to be a more honest society. I really wasn't surprised by this at all by this situation, I guess I'm just another cynical Gen-X-er. Honest Politician is a contradiction in terms, but I don't think it has to be.

...perhaps the reason they keep prostitution illegal is to oust each other....