Mrs. Palin exposed herself to the entire world as wilfully ignorant and hostile. Only a madman would think that a lifetime of mental laziness could be reversed - particularly when the very reason that her fans like her is this ignorance and hostility.

As for "people who wanted Mr. Obama to win did not want to hear anything so unpleasant as friendships with bombers" - get a grip on yourself!

I assume you're talking about Mr. Ayers. Who are the other "bombers"? Don't have any other names?

Mr. Obama sat in the living room of Mr. Ayers - as Obama did with tens of thousands of other people trying to win the Presidency. These is every bit of evidence that they are basically total strangers that happened to be in the same place at the same time. This is one of the most investigated associations of my lifetime - and nothing was there. If you have the information, give it to us now. Otherwise, shut up - we've heard this a thousand times, there's nothing there.

And Mr. Ayers did... what? Some property damage forty years ago to protest an unjust war that killed two *million* Vietnamese who did *nothing* to hurt us? The Bush administration started a phoney war that killed hundreds of thousands and created death camps, for God's sake!

There has to be something wrong in your head to be obsessed with this insignificant connection between Mr. Obama and a minor political figure who never hurt anyone.

Palin, Ayers - no one else cared except a few loonies like you. Grow up, already!

I'd pity you, because the next four years are going to be pretty hard on you - but your team caused this, made this happen, reviled us when we tried to point out the problems, behaved (and continue to behave, as per your letter) like spoiled children. But a lot of other people are going to suffer, so I'll be very glad that at least in your case it's justified.

(Not that I think Mr. Obama is any great shakes as a progressive. Sigh.)

I couldn't go on reading these but let me assure you, this criminal is being mistreated.

If we claim we are better than they are, prison should be harsh but fair, and have aspects of rehabilitation as well as punishment.

*Keeping prisoners in solitary confinement indefinitely is abuse.* In particular, it makes rehabilitation almost impossible.

I agree this guy should be in jail. BUT he was only following orders! You know that he would also have been punished if he had quit once he knew what was going on. This was a not-very-nice man, put in a very bad situation by his commanding officers, who made a wrong choice. People in the US endure far less time and much better jails for murdering their loved ones in cold blood. He deserves jail, he doesn't deserve torture.

And the ultimate responsibility has to go to the people issuing the orders - they are the ones who should be facing the harshest punishment.

The quotes I read were very, very funny in a dark way and her other books were very funny - in a dark way.

She's a smart cookie and if nothing else her trips to the land of psychosis put our neuroses into perspective.

...once you're embarked on all this taboo breaking, I consider using the handicapped stall perfectly reasonable.

Frankly, I commend them for doing something completely off-the-wall and ridiculous (assuming that this isn't something they do all the time). The only shame is that they didn't get away with it.

There was a case in England a few years ago where a couple had sex for a long time in various variations - right in the middle of a commuter train at rush hour - no one complained until they smoked a post-coital cigarette when many people called the conductor and they were arrested.

I was born in England myself and felt a rush of pride at the nuanced and accurate response - "live and let live" but then "I won't breathe your second-hand smoke".

There's a lovely moment at the start of the (musically brilliant) Butthole Surfers album "Locust Abortion Technician" where two very American voices have a little conversation... "Daddy, what does 'regret' mean?" "Well son, a funny thing about regret, it's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done."

Take time to stop and mock the roses. And if you occasionally end up fucking in the flower bed, well, just avoid making a habit of it.

Your strip was always a "small" strip - about the small personal world - rather than a "big" strip like, say, Tom Tomorrow that talks about "the whole world".

So I think the new addition to the family is a great addition to the strip too.

Perhaps I shouldn't write, since I'm a New York Google engineer, but I think it was an excellent move.

There are enough luxuries, times are difficult, people should get to work, as we are lucky enough to have jobs - and I think this is the general sentiment around the office.

I am personal very dubious about corporatism, but Google's better than most, even if only as the somewhat-exception that tests the rough rule.