You wonder why the world's a mess?

Women always want to breed with the worst of the lot.

This encourages good men to be bitter and bad men to be badder.

If marriage were still something meaningful -- still something moral -- maybe this letter would matter.

But the fact is that it's a sham. Cheap vows uttered to satisfy object-lust. Or the quickest way to rob a rich man.

So let them have each other. No need to take a stand. Just pray it will last "until death do they part".

Summers had full support after the comments flap. I got this directly from Jamie (corp. chair). The faculty vote was symbolic. The corp. runs the show. And they are used to prof's who bray bitch and moan.

The real concern was money. Specifically, Summers drove out Jack Meyer at HMC, the Warren Buffet of endowment managers. We are talking billions in ROI on the endowment during his term, 20% returns. Summers decided his Ph.D. in econ entitled him to micro-manage things. He wanted a market-timing strategy, the opposite of the Meyer approach. This is hinted at in the last Harvard Magazine but was a much bigger deal behind the scenes.

So feminists can notch their belts if they like. There has always been a lynch mob out there for Meyer and friends, too. But it was neither Jack's fees nor Larry's comments that mattered to the corp. It was the money. This is why the new HMC team with el-Erian will not be managing nearly the portfolio Meyer did. You can mess with the women, and mess with the profs. Big deal. But if you mess with the money, you're out.

See ya Summers.

Well, at least they know exactly what we've been complaining about.

it's really a cleverly written reflection on envy and serendipity. summarizing it here makes no sense; that is like cliff-noting poetry

there is a single rhetorical question in which the narrator idly wonders if men are equally prone to envy. it's a throw-away line used to define the narrative voice; it's not a deep thought on gender issues. broadsheet just used that as a hook so they could fill their space.

hornaday is a real writer. maybe salon will publish an entire piece of hers here

...hubby ought to leave the lid up -- and start growing his nose hairs

(you ladies realize what a bitch it is to yank those little boys out???)

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"4 out of 5 salon feminists agree: a single man shouldn't speak"

Get rid of your TV and you will be less fat, more intelligent, less busy, and have more friends.

Seriously, just toss it out the freakin' window.

This is the first step to setting yourself free.

Slate describes the situation well: http://www.slate.com/id/2136778/?nav=tap3

Summers attacked the sacred cows which have been herding in the yard:

* Anti-Israel Euro lefties

* Cooler-than-though Afro Am profs

* Swooning media-friendly feminists

No surprise it was precisely these three points slated for his second no-confidence vote. But as a Jewish white male he looked like the boogy-man to them. Add in an utter lack of finesse, and he easily became Frankenstein's monster.

Yet the Corporation's mandate remains the same: reclaim Harvard from the PC pit bulls. By and large, this is what the alums who elect them want.

So next up, someone equally smart and tough, but far more polished. And by dint of sex and skin, untouchable in the age of image. Too bad Condoleeza Rice is already taken.

Why not ignore the men you are attracted to and go out with some of the men who are attracted to you but for whom you find no initial attraction? They may turn out to be a better bet. Because, obviously, relying on your own initial attraction has not worked.

Amen. If women looked past the jerks who got them hot on the spot they would meet a lot more decent men.

How dare anyone portray Bush as merely a pathetic fool. The man was told clearly of the dangers of Katrina. Just a few days later he said on national TV that nobody had any notion of what would happen. That was a pure self-serving intentional and malicious lie. Even a child could tell as much.

Bush is not the victim of flattery and coddling. He is flattered and coddled because he demands it. He is a glib liar, unconcerned with consequences, seeking his own adulation in place of wise counsel, and steering a course of utter ruin.

Here's a thought: If we must resort to empire we ought to restore the tradition of beheading the evil emperors.

It's not sanctioned by the constitution, but then neither is

* torture

* war without congressional declaration

* spying on citizens

* lying to the public

* redrawing voting districts based on campaign contributions

As for President Cheney, we won't have to wait long for his bad ticker to crack once he's got to face the cameras every day.

-- Note to any NSA types reading this: the above comment is irony. I am not sanctioning an act of actual violence against the president. Please go back to more serious matters such as snooping on library patrons viewing possibly unchristian materials.

So buck up, oldReader. More than half the country is on our side. Two thirds find Bush incompetent. There are multiple investigations of multiple crimes underway. Republican congressmen are being ousted for corruption and fleeing association with the president. And the evidence of Bush's lies -- from WMD, to global warming, to Katrina failures, to 9/11 -- is everywhere.

In short, the wheels are flying off the Rove-Mobile. And as the momentum shifts against them Dick, George, and friends will be in for a helluva ride. Impeachment is just the beginning!

P.S. Kudos to Salon for covering something other than liberal hand-wringing.