In that long list of quotes, you left out the most damning one. Unfortunately I don't have the exact quote, but to paraphrase him, he said that he has seen evidence that others have not. Apparently that is 100% true. He saw evidence that contradicted what he was saying!

My wife and I are now expecting a child thanks to IVF. But now that I read your article, I have to temper my joy with the realization that 25 of my children died before implantation. The only silver lining is that we elected to have 5 of our preborn children frozen, which, if taken to its logical conclusion, means that I now have 4 kids that I can count as my dependents! Thank you, Jesus!

I didn't see this skit, and I don't need to, because I wrote dozens of skits like this over the years for the low-budget special events that networks put on, and I know what happened.

You've got to realize that these skits were shot days and weeks in advance of the show, written months of advance, and were actually very difficult to produce.

To pull it at the last minute would mean losing 60, 90, 120 seconds of airtime. You think the skit that was produced well before this tragic event was in bad taste...just imaging how terrible the "live" version would've been. They weren't making fun of the day's events. They were making fun of a hit TV show.

Now that we're all aware of how the world of media works, let's all agree to ignore this non-story.

Man, this is absurd! Doesn't this Annie womyn know that all hippies who have success have a duty to keep it to themselves and other like-minded hippies instead of selling it to, to, to ANYONE????? Gosh, what pryck!

To me, this is a non-story. Bob Barr didn't leave the GOP because of a change of heart. His ideology is still the same, he just went to the more streamlined, radical conservative party. If you think about it, Libertarians are really just republicans without money. They believe government is bad, and that all aspects of society should be run on the free market instead.

If you want a good example of a libertarian utopia, go live in Mexico, or Afghanistan, or some other country run by the free market rule of law. Need security? Hire your own police force. Need clean water? Have it trucked in. Need a hospital? Hop on a plane and go to America. And if you don't have the money to access a police force, water, or a plane...well, that's just the free market doing its thing.

So, wow, Bob Barr is now a libertarian. Next you'll tell me George Bush is an idiot.

The author seems to believe that upper-middle class women aren't suposed to have any problems, or seek any guidance, or find any solice within their community. What nonsense. This book is of for and about yuppie mommies, of which there are a zillion. Why does something that is for this group have to also address the problems of paycheck-to-paycheck moms? Why can't rich ladies figure out their lives, too?

Yes Amy.

We men want our women to be horribly incompetent at putting laundry where laundry belongs. At actually cleaning a plate. At living like a human adult being. By all means, Amy, write as if we'd be pleased and surprised that we are appriciated for playing against type.

Look, I'm all kinds of in love with your posting. I love it that you realize that some guys are not as neadrathalic as the stereotype. Orgasms to you! I feel as liberated as a black man who gets the key to the city because he doesn't rape a white woman while they'restuck alone in an elevator in 1953. Jeez.

To the moon, Amy! The moon!

Regardless of the response you get, you're going to get the last word.

Why isn't there a Dude Sheet?

I was this same exact person 10 years ago. I won a stand-up contest in my town, got offered a real TV pilot, quit my job and moved to LA. And then...nothing. Not nothing. I had an agent, a manager, the respect of some of the most successful comedians working today, and a whole lot of non-paying gigs. One year, I made $100K in commercials. The next year I think I got paid twice to do stand-up, both times on national TV for a grand total of around $1,879. I made no other money that year.

I could tell you all about the ups and downs and close calls and thinkgs people did to screw me and things I did that ruined my chances of making it. I wasn't perfect, but I was totally normal and I too believed I was good enough to make it.

I did it for 8 years. Eventually, I realized I couldn't do it, I wasn't going to make it. I saw an opportunity to pick up my career in advertising where I left off, and now I make more than $100K a year every year. It'll never be a million and I'll never be famous. I am, however, the funniest guy in the office.

Marc Maron has this great joke that goes something like this:

"They say it takes 10 years to become an overnight success. What they don't tell you is that it also takes 10 years to become a failure. And the worst part of it is that you don't know which way it's going to turn out until the night before."