Of course when you tamper with hormones you get side effects. Duh.

I could never believe how many parents would put their teenage daugters on dangerous medications that screw with the essential functions of their bodies just so they could have sex in high school and college no strings attached.

Mess with your hormones 24/7 just for the occasional quickie?

No. More like, so you can have as much sex as you want without cost.

But those mood swings, etc? Maybe there is a cost. Do those effect your grades, thinking, job performance, etc?

Even more amazing is its use to clear up acne. Cancer? Sure, as long as I have clear skin.

Basically, the pill puts sexual satisfaction -- and cosmetics -- over health etc. in most cases.

How is that a boon for women?

Who besides investment bankers can afford all of this junk? Why is it that these people continually get richer regardless of what happens in the rest of the world?

And how sad for their children who become soulless accessories in this anxiety-driven quest for over-designed perfection.

(barf)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Police Chief has continually arrested protestors in D.C. without cause and then apologized -- after it is all over and his goals are achieved. These arrests have resulted in large settlements against the city.

So, D.C. residents, 93% of whom voted against Bush, are subsidizing the stifling of free speech by the police chief. These same residents don't have congressional representation. And the capital police are managed by congress.

Further, the woman who ran the Park Police was run out of town for not towing the party line.

In short, this incident merely hilights the degree to which democracy has already been subverted.

"Why would anyone want to do that?" wonders Sam Butto, a Toyota spokesman in Torrance, Calif., when told some Prius owners are creating their own plug-in Priuses. "One of the great features of the Prius is that you don't have to plug it in."

Which is more convenient: an electric outlet in your garage or a gas station ten miles across town?

Duh.

Plus, you reduce local exhaust, a major pollutant. And save your gas money.

Why are car companies so obtuse on this issue?

Is it intentional?

Maybe Andrew can investigate.

Not only stupid, not only hypocritical, but shallow to boot.

No wonder no woman will buy me that $400 rubber bracelet I've coveted so long.

Damn I suck. I wish I were a womyn.

Buffalo Bill's

defunct

who used to

ride a watersmooth-silver

stallion

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

Jesus

he was a handsome man

and what i want to know is

how do you like your blueeyed boy

Mister Death

Let Premium Users rate an article 1-5 and display the avg. rating. Then I can choose to read the best stuff. Way more efficient that reading letters. This is done on Amazon for reviews. Is a bonus for paying subscription (or using site pass).

A guest column could be interesting, if you chose someone qualified and edited it. Same for an essay, fiction, etc. contest. But it's got to be moderated somehow. Writing.com and those places are just a mess, and nobody reads anything.

No on the blogs. Too much crapola out there already. We can do that anywhere.

Also, enforce your policies. TT didn't. People get ganged up on, abused, and stalked. Moderators would not respond. This makes me think they are biased. I also think the editor's choices are biased, like everyone else.

I think the Creator has "Prior Art" locked up ;-)

(whew)

I just needed to get that out there. Man, I feel better now.

P.S. This article was hilarious -- but the letters will be even better.

This article is meandering, wordy, self-referential, and lacking in cohesive tension. Paragraphs begin with I, To, But, That, Since, etc. indicating a weak structure more appropriate to an email. An Editor in Chief ought to do better.

Moreover, one is left wondering why feminists cannot grow up and make a _decision_. The word precisely means "to cut off". You decide a path and cut off another. A man does as much in choosing to work and marry, or launch a business and forego a family. A woman may now choose a career, a family, a work-at-home hubby, or a family and home-based employment, among others. Options abound.

So enough with the hand-wringing, I say. The Bushies just gave us a budget that demolishes healthcare for the poor, enshrines an endless war a la 1984, and puts the pentagon outside any boundaries. Democrats are on the verge of a comeback to reclaim our government. Internet giant Google may have taken its first tumble. Politics and technology are the meat and potatos of the good Salon. Yet here we are stuck in a 70s-era gender war. What's going on Joan?

Now she is a celebrety mathematician?

Weird

That's it. That's all you need. Toss in a few:

"Really, that's fascinating! [follup question]"

They will love you.

~

One thing that amazed me when I was very shy was how many people REALLY LIKED ME. They assumed since all I did was nod and smile that I agreed with everything they said. Learning to speak up is learning to be less popular.

~

The crazy, alky, bi-polar or whatever folks are entertaining spectacles in youth. But they get increasingly disquieting with age. If that's you, get some help, and meanwhile, try being the quiet guy for awhile.

*IS* a nympho. Also a slut. It's distressing that feminists cannot bring themselves to acknowlege immoral, anti-social, and self-destructive behavior in women.