I can't wait to get this book. When as a liberal Democrat I now almost yearn for the good ol' days of Nixon and Reagan, then I know we have a problem.

We are now doing the largest assault on Iraq today, three years after our first assault. What happened to "the end of major combat operations" and "the insurgency is in its last throes"? And I'm a military ex-dependent!

I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. But, after listening to my parents' stories about the 20s,30s,40s and 50s, and remembering my own experiences in the 60s and on, you have to wonder how and why so much of this stuff is connected. And why the only people who seem to come out "smelling like a rose" throughout American 20th Century history the are well-connected, well-heeled, well-positioned, but apparently not "well-intentioned," creeps.

Goodnight And Good Luck.

I've got to agree with most of the letter writers. And as a middle-aged lesbian, out since 10, I think I've seen this stuff before.

"Form fitting leather pants" (yes, very 80s)! And how proud he was about it - the form fitting part! And to go to a "bar" "mostly frequented by gays." BTW, "gays" in this case probably means men, not mixed with women, of any variety or sexual persuasion.

Additionally, Mr. Metro didn't "get it" when TWO men sent them a drink? Come on . . . Why didn't he just nod thank you and return his attention to his wife? Did he think he was going to discuss the Tarheels with these guys, or "Turandot?"

Mr. Metro didn't have a problem with his wife's wardrobe while in college, nor enough of a problem to not ask her to marry him. Yet even in college he was a "clothes queen." And now her wardrobe is a problem?

I do disagree with Cary Tennis. When you begin reading a letter and can start to feel the emotion and sense of personality behind it, then perhaps there is fire behind the smoke. The pride and smugness about his looks and fashion sense suggested in his letter goes beyond "the love of style, color, fashion, appearance, theatricality, fine things: the sensual realm." No, he was proud that he was appealing to these men. And to some degree it feels like he enjoyed rubbing his wife's face in it.

I've met many men who are "metrosexual" and I knew, even instinctively, when they were straight or gay. If a straight man keeps getting hit on by gay men, then there is probably distinct messages he's sending out, and it's not to explore his "creative" side.

He is not a latent homosexual. He is not a "metrosexual." He is a gay man that either just hasn't come out or he is the "straight" man who was once "gay" in junior high, but now thinks he is "normal."

No. Normal is being gay. Normal is being straight. What is not normal is being so mean to your wife. Fix it or allow her to move on with her life.

Sorry, but I had to throw a shout out to GDY. I saw a "band" several times in a gay bar. Well, she only went by her first name. The bar was the Que Sera Sera in Long Beach, CA. Then she stopped performing there. What happened to her? Only a buck to get in and she was good. Hmm?

Couple of months later she was up for Grammy for best female rock vocalist. I don't think they have that specific category anymore . . .

Probably had to cancel that category since it was Melissa . . .Etheridge. How cool was that?!

Gee, maybe Denzel could take a lesson from this video.

Oh, even lesbians like me want to do George! He's "dreamy!" And the fact that Rosemary Clooney is his aunt doesn't hurt, either! And I liked his dad when he briefly did SoCal news several years ago.

Rosie . . .Rosie . . .Rosie . . .please, I ain't no fashionista dyke, nor am I some bulldyke gal, but really, there is a reason "The View" doesn't want you to cut your hair. It just doesn't look that good very short, and I don't care how much some fagista-fashionista in NY or LA talked you into it! You are very nice looking, so go back to a longer or medium-ish cut!

Colbert! Keep kickin' ass, dude!

Thanks everyone,

ucrsue

I keep thinking of Bush as Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny." Somewhere he's gonna find those WMD or WWMD or whatever . . .

I don't trust Republicans or Democrats about their reasons for voting Bush the opportunity to invade Iraq. If I, unemployed at the time and watching way too much cable news, knew that all those "reasons" were false, why didn't the march-step pols of both stripes not know it?

That's okay . . .we'll find those wascaly strawberries in Iran!

But why are we in Iraq at all? I never believed the "reasons" the administration gave us. Why did Congress go along?

There is no "victory" to be had in Iraq. We never should have been there in the first place. Why can't we finish the job in Afganistan and find that bastard Osama. Oh, that's right! His family are friends with the Bushes.