Women must continue to support each other during these hard times in the struggle. Now is not the time to abandon women who live in embattled states where their rights are being threatened. Now is the time to support each other through financial means, political action, and speaking up! This project is a prime example of that need for support.

She is clearly losing a grip on reality in her zeal to spread outrageous lies and innuendos about anyone she deems as "left." What is even more disturbing to me is the American media's tolerance of her unacceptable behavior as she continues to slander those with whom she disgrees. This latest comment regarding Bill Clinton's sexual orientation is an example of her "burn-and-slash" tactics; her homophobic comments on-camera should have been enough for the producers to cut to commercial so they could escort her out of the building.

Coulter does not deserve more opportunities to spread her hatred.

You couldn't ask for a better gift for the Democrats: an ineffectual bully who represents the best the Bush Administration could come up with to deal with a failed foreign policy. The Democrats should beat Bolton at his own game of displaying contempt and let him have the job. His own incompetence and arrogance will sink him and the Bush Administration's agenda like a pair of cement boots.

What if that "someone" who left those magazines happened to be management, and endorsed by the company itself? Anything countering the company's politics is likely to be shredded by management. What's next, advertising? Email? Rallies? It's enough to bring my churning stomach to a halt in that stall. This is American marketing at its very worse. This is crap that didn't hit the bowl. Sometimes the reading material left around is enough to warn a person off from doing business with a company or individual.

Take, for instance, my own experience almost three years ago at a ob/gyn's office when visiting her for the first time: I began noticing almost immediately the overwhelming presence of evangelical, conservative Christian material throughout the office. Though the doctor seemed friendly at the time of the initial visit, it occurred to me that we probably didn't see eye to eye when it came to certain matters. Her questions about my relationship with a Northern European and my marital status were invasive and inappropriate. Clearly, stirrups and 700 Club don't mix! Six months later, I parted ways with that practice after being treated shabbily by one of the other doctors in the practice because I had the nerve to ask him to call in a prescription for the morning-after pill. Reading material left around are not just decoration or amusement; it's a map of attitudes, beliefs, and values. I should have jumped off that examination table the moment I saw the "crap" floating around that office, but at least I was alerted to their ideological approach, and was able to make some decisions about the care of my body.

As Dionne Brand once wrote, "no language is neutral," and to that I would add, neither is propaganda or where it is placed. As a consumer I was able to make choices about who could and couldn't push their values on me, but the letter-writer is a worker who trapped in a crapper with right-wing crap, and its stink probably doesn't stop at the men's room door. We've already seen political maneuvering by corporations in action over the last 20 years, and I think it's naive to not see that the right and the left are at war with each other in this country. Bathroom stalls are where people should be able to forget rank in a common struggle to release the toxins from their bodies--but I suppose nothing is sacred when we are at war.

On the other hand, I think that this particular corporate entity could enforce its own rules about harassment and mutual respect, and forbid employees from leaving any materials that are not related to company business. That's enforceable on many levels. But as I noted above, corporations are quite capable of pushing their own politics (Haliburton, anyone?), so I wouldn't be surprised if the guilty culprits happened to be the company itself.