The lynch mob never went away. It's still here with us under hood and robe barefingered on the keyboard in our new places for social discourse. Threats are threats and have to be treated as such especially when home addresses are given out. It's not a case of bad manners or weak intentions or political liberty. All message boards need moderators. All letters to the editor need, well, an editor.

Thugs need to be put in their place.

To all of us northsiders, it will always be Wrigley Field. Just like knowing that Sheffield is 1000 (as in 10 hundred) west and Addison is 3600 North and the Redline is the Jackson Park-Howard.

Things only a Chicagoan would know.

I work for the welfare dept and the term used by Fox to describe Michelle Obama is not only incorrect (she and Obama are legally married and their offspring were born after marriage) but very disrespectful, unprofessional and partisan. All of Fox TV African- American anchors should boycott, Fox TV should be fined and Fox TV should issue an apology. Fox TV crossed a line when they did that.

While I enjoyed the article and video, at this stage of my life, I won't be giving up my car. Yes, I was "car-free" for 20 years, because I couldn't afford one. In Chicago, we call it riding the CTA. My job relocated to a bad neighborhood 5 years ago, my father became elderly and frail and I was tired of waiting 40 minutes for buses in subzero temperatures, among other drawbacks of public transportation. Right now, if I had an extra $1000 bucks, I would spend it on a vacation. By airplane.

Stephanie, you are the only movie reviewer I read. I can't stand to read movie reviews by most male critics because the movie they see is not the same movie I see. I will not forget the cold and hostile reviews of "Boys On the Side". I felt as though most male movie reviewers inhabited a parallel universe, one that lacked sensitivity, feeling or attempt at understanding.

Is that a recent photo? Rielle Hunter looks frozen in time, like maybe 1982. Let me guess -- I bet she's wearing Doc Martens with fishnet stockings!

I had clients with the first names of Major and Lieutenant (male) and Queen (female). Faux French names were popular like D'Andre. I once had to add a newborn with the name Rocky (first name) and (you guessed it) Road (middle name). A mother named her daughter Snow. Her last name was White. Patrice was a popular girl's name altho the name was taken from Patrice Lamumba, a man. I also saw a lot of Jesus and Elvis. I remember a woman in France was fined for naming her daughters Prune and Vanilla. Sometimes, I think giving your child a stupid name is kind of like child abuse. But, then I think about that Johnnie Cash song "A Boy Named Sue". I have a very unusual first name and no one could pronounce it when I was growing up. I hated it. What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.