This whole group of letters is infuriating and judgemental. It seems like a few of you "natural childbirthers" are so pleased with yourselves for your bravery and somehow smug that you did it the natural way and anyone else is just subpar in their thinking and taking the easy way out. Why has no one answered my previous point that a whole lot of C-sec are performed to save the woman from a possible perferated uterus. Sure, some VBACs go perfectly smoothly. But a small percentage don't and those women DIE and so do their BABIES. Some doctors err on the side of caution. But you natural people would probably rather have them risk death than not do it the way you think is best. I had a planned C and when I asked about VBAC because of the stupid pressure from people asking why I wouldn't at least try a VBAC, my doctor (whom I trust with my life) asked if it was worth even a tiny risk to me to lose the baby and myself because I went into labor alone and my uterus perferated. STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHAT OTHER WOMEN ARE DOING AND FOCUS ON YOURSELVES. Enjoy your beautiful memories of your natural childbirth the way God wanted you to do it, take pictures and leave the rest of us alone.

I find it interesting that the LW had a "relationship" to a woman with whom she fooled around with only twice ever. If she really were bi-sexual, she certainly had ample opportunity to check out the facet of herself before settling into a committed relationship and having children. The point is she didn't experiment so, guess what, she probably didn't really want to. But suddenly, she finds herself attracted to a gay women. I believe the reason for this lies no where in the vicinity of actually being bi-sexual but much closer to being bored in her marriage. It's easier to blame our longing to stray a little on something beyond our control like sexual orientation than to accept that marriage gets boring sometimes. I think the LW finds herself more palatable as a women with unexplored tendencies. I'm willing to be that if she actually were to get divorced, she would not be anymore likely to be with a woman than she was before she got married. My advice to the LW is she doesn't need a support group for lesbian women or bisexual women, she needs to ride out the temptation and have faith that in marriage and all longterm relationships there are ups and downs. If the two of them truly are compatible,this too shall pass.

Chris Matthews needs to be very, very clear about a few things: 4000 US Servicemen (and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians) are dead not because of “the decision of politicians like the Clintons.” They are dead because of the decision of a politician named George W. Bush, ( about whom Matthews said on the day Bush declared Mission Accomplished “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics” and “And it doesn't matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It's stunning, and it speaks for itself.”)

These men and women are also dead because of the support of politician like John McCain, to whom Matthews recently exclaimed, “Senator, you know you’re in my heart!”

Finally, these 4000 are also dead because of the complete abdication of the pursuit of truth and reporting of the facts by a large circle of so-called journalists like Chris Matthews who prize their status as court jesters within the circle of the powerful over real reporting and analysis. They have blood on their Armanis.