What are a you talking about? It's not "end of [film making] as a genre".

It's clearly just another pleasant movie for girls - and boys? - who may like the American Girl series, dolls and books. (It's probably also a valentine to a long-gone era or two & - rightly or wrong - some people's nostalgia for that past.)

But instead I will just say .. can't wait.

I always start off trying to read CT' answers to people but I only last to the third or fourth sentence. I don;t recall how long it has been since I read his responses from beginning to end.

Why can't he just respond to letter writers without the self-indulgence? He himself knows he's trying the reader's patience ("so I will offer you a meandering and unguarded glimpse of my own grief") yet STILL he cannot help himself. I don't want to tear him down for no reason & I know he is an aspiring novelist, but come on!

I wish Garrison Keillor (or who ever Mr Blue was) were still writing this column.

Why aren't Americans demonstrating & actually showing their disagreement and disgust with this whole 'bailout' business?

Am I missing something? Have there been responses from American voters/citizens that Government can actually feel (other than the letters that I have read a few commentators say they wrote to their Congress persons & to websites like Salon)? After all, as everyone keeps saying, it is the ordinary citizen/person who will be paying (and paying) for this catastrophe.

Sorry I am an Australian looking at the frenzy & panic America is obviously in & it's very puzzling.. why the resigned acceptance of Bush & Co 's solution to the "Worst Financial Crisis The World Has Faced Since the Depression"? (By the way, I say it like that because that is how media outlets here keep referring to the problem. As if anyone needs to be reminded of the seriousness of the situation.

Honestly, why aren't more Americans angrier and, most importantly, willing to demonstrate their fury for the obvious contempt with which their elected officials treat them. Democrat and Republican representatives (ha, there's a laugh) make noises about 'oversight', that 'this is not a corporate bailout' on and on. People go to their respective website magazines to show they understand exactly where that Despicable Chimp in the White House is coming from, yet in the final analysis, like Glenn Greenwald & others point out, it is Politics as Usual. There is nothing that is going to be done to ensure that the people are not in fact screwed over again as it appears they almost certainly will be.

A great country is crumbling before everyone's eyes & it's citizens effectively can do nothing about it. This is yet another unilateral, enormously wide-ranging act by government. And, again, it is ordinary Americans who will be paying the price for it. (God, I hate Bush. The way he babbles about how serious the crisis is, the way he tries to sound like he understands (or even cared about) the ramifications for the millions of Americans who will suffer more than they already were. As if he will ever have struggle not to lose his home, his business. The Fool shouldn't even try to fake concern for what this bailout will mean.)

Many Americans - maybe even up to half? - were not for the invasion of Iraq. More than a few were repelled by The Idiot Monkeyface & his unscrupulous administration; how they have ridden roughshod over the Constitution, over people's civil liberties and basic rights to privacy with the Patriot Act. Who can't list all the ways they have exploited their power, it 'd go on forever .. Yet here we go again.

It is so so sad. I mean at what point is enough ENOUGH? Surely if there was a time to make a gigantic fuss (and make sure Washington felt it) this would be that time. What will it take? Please someone tell me.

the moose-hunting values that made America great

Too funny. :)

And by the way, I think Tina Fey's witty impersonations of Palin have been fabulous. But while Fey has nailed Palin's cadences and charm, she can't capture the energy, which is a force of nature.

Any charm in Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonations is entirely due to Ms. Fey's own natural talent and ability and has nothing whatsoever to do with Palin. This ludicrous infatuation seems to have finally driven you over the edge into complete lunacy.

Sarah Palin is not a frontier woman. Calling her one or to mention her in the same breath as those genuinely tough pioneer women is wrong, in my opinion.

It is NOT tough to take high-powered rifles into the woods and the air to shoot defenseless wolves from helicopters. This woman and her ilk are repulsive and, to me at least, the embodiment of inhumanity with no sense of fair play AT ALL.

but though we all cried tears of joy tonight, this means something HUGE for the blacks in our country and around the world.

I won't speak for other black people, but this is very true for me & my family. All the way over here in Oz. Words cannot describe how moved I am by this election result.

Obama is the right man at the right time.

I cannot fathom how Karl Rove can keep himself gainfully employed.

It's because he 's a sort of reptile. A snake or a crocodile. Or both.

If the Russians want to invade Somalia and kill everyone in sight let them the world will be a better place

What a disgusting, stupid thing to say.