Meg Griffin has no politics. She's just a girl who wants to date boys and have fun. But everyone hates her, even her father. If you had watched more than a few episodes of Family Guy, you would know that.

Elsewhere I have proposed that Seth McFarlane be honest to his feelings about young women, and have Meg killed off. Definitively, bloodily, no resurrection, no gimmicks. Have her bloody corpse, done by a GOOD artist, appear before the family and have Peter do a little dance. Have Peter repeat at the start of every episode, "Meg is dead, the skanky whore!" And the end credits should always roll over her tombstone, saying "Meg Griffin, Died 9/11/2009, and about time, damn it!"

San Francisco is a gay paradise, all right - if you're wealthy and you don't have a future to save for. For people of any sexual orientation who want to have something of a future, for their kids or their heirs, who don't have dot-com money or criminal banking money, it's a Walt Disney World where you don't have a ticket and don't deserve to live.

The whole state has supposedly pioneered trends that spread eastward across the country. Right now they're pioneering debt, starved civic government that cuts services and a completely dead middle class. You're either very wealthy or you're a bum on the street. This is a trend I don't really like to see adopted, but of course I won't have a choice about it.

The cynicism of F. Scott Fitzgerald has come true at last, but unlike his locust story, the apocalypse won't be limited to a movie premiere where the poor take revenge on the rich. Everybody will get caught on fire, everyone will die. And that includes the right-wing churches that promoted and milked the rich, with their expensive cathedrals and TV shows. God isn't coming for them. God doesn't give a damn. The only person who wants that state is Satan...or Satan-egger.

The whole point to writing a column or an article is not to open one up to the entirety of experience. It's to focus the world through the lens of the writer. That can open people's minds up to new views, or confirm the beliefs they always had. In either case, the writer has to dramatize stuff.

Keillor dramatized the difference between New York and Washington as he saw it. And since his viewpoint has always been small-town, Midwestern and culturally conservative, naturally he's going to treat both places as cliches. It was as if he were in a high school writing class (remember when high school kids knew how to write and were expected to?) and received the assignment "Compare and contrast the Tourist Destination on the Potomac with the Source of All Evil on the Hudson."

That you guys are largely unsatisfied with this column is probably predictable. Because a bored, underpaid teacher didn't cough up this assignment; Keillor assigned it to himself. And he cranked out the article with the same misery in which he made the assignment. About the only thing in the article that seemed original, direct experience was his mentioning hitchhiking across the Brooklyn Bridge, something even I can't imagine anyone doing. The rest was just cobbled out of some old TV-movies.

The only reason people still embrace The Simpsons is that they came to love the characters. There was, at one time, some love for King of the Hill because Hank Hill showed some personal integrity and love.

On the other hand, the only reason people watch Family Guy is the outrageous jokes. The jokes come fast and thick and they don't mean a thing. It embodies one of Seth McFarlane's few consistent things; his treatment of Meg as an ugly, unloveable (even by her parents) thing is the emblem of his misogyny.

Judge apparently felt that making fun of the politically correct crowd, and taking a Limbaugh line, is the way to success. If you can't like the characters, this show will die an early death.

I know things are bad. I lost my job three weeks ago and it's hard sledding trying to find work. But I am determined that my layoff, dictated by the corporation and an arbitrary boss, will not destroy me. I'll deliver freaking pizzas if I have to, to stay afloat.

Republicans are cheering on a crash so they can get President Cheney (who used Bush as a hand puppet) to come back in and truly destroy the country. Far leftists, including amazingly some Communists who didn't learn anything, are cheering on a crash so that they can turn America into the new Soviet Union and destroy us THAT way.

The rest of us are showing cautious hope that Obama will make the right choice, start up American industry, end outsourcing and end the broadcasting monopolies that allowed jerks like Limbaugh and O'Reilly to go unchallenged.