Caveat: Its clear art, any art, is in the eye of the beholder. Thus I honor all those who love

"Curb".

For me, I felt it repulsive from the beginning. I tried again this year because of the vaunted "Seinfeld Reunion". I zipped through three seasons. So:

I get it, I get the non PC daring. I get the "black humor", its constant absurdist nature. I get certain high spots, like the finale where Larry pulls off "The Producers".

But I quickly saw that's its ONE JOKE, done relentlessly OVER, and OVER, and OVER, ad nauseum. Larry fights over a nitpicking situation with this one, with that one, with everyone. And he's a greedy, narcissistic shit. How funny. Ha-Ha.

Not. George worked because he was part of an ensemble. His craziness was part of a zany fabric. Would you want to see a show all about George every week? Probably not.

I thought about keeping HBO just for this season's conclusion but the episodes were so lame and the next week fight (of course) at the country club so derivative and monotonously repetitive I couldn't stand it. So no go. Its like watching a guy shit in the middle of a room every week and say, "look, how cutting edge".

For all who like it, have fun. I'm out. I realized why I never dug it in the first place.

Not only is your article completely right on, I watched the episode and was astonished at the bull shit of the mother who felt "clean" about letting the child die in her arms. How about a 1000 witnesses of children who were allowed to be born who suffered, along with their parents terribly.

What is not mentioned at all is a society that is obsessed with Islamic "terrorism" but allows a climate in which there have been over 80 arsons, 40 bombings and numerous killings in the last decade. If this had been the work of Al Quaeda, you can bet your bottom dollar every anti abortion group would be in Gitmo.

But not here in the good old USA, the bizarro land of developed countries.

I don't understand why the Obama people just don't lay out the case Glenn just did and tell the goddamn whores of the establishment to shut the fuck up.

If they want to get their panties in an uproar, fine, but an incessant exposing of their bullshit hypocricy might be damn fine medicine.

And maybe an education of the people via a Presidential talk and I'm mad as hell and won't take it anymore might just reinforce a populism that despises what's happening anyway because in this climate you will NEVER get the right wing.

But oh no Obama has to have Snowe.

So I guess its a pipe dream.

Didn't Kennedy go toe to toe with the Steel industry and the Treasury? Might there be a lesson there on how big a hammer there can be?

For once, in responses to a letter such as this, I find a congruity. And they are SPIRITUAL in the finest definition of the word.

So I find it a cultural fascination with this site that Cary believes he has to hedge his advice often with words like:

"Wander. Know that you are a creation of the universe. When I say this, I fear it sounds a little **proto-mystical** or **New Agey.** To me, it is not hyperbole or **mystic silliness** but simple fact,

(**indicates my emphasis)

And again

"Yep, there, I said it. Sounding New Agey again. Perhaps "soul on a journey" is not the best way to put it."

What the fuck, Cary? Are you so ashamed of your mystical side that you have to disparage it every time it comes forward? That's the pernicious side of Salon and has nothing to do with you or our mystical sense of life.

Actually your deeper explications to this young man were a perfect blend and proferring of what mysticism is, framed in a more Western philosophical-psychological framework.

There's no need to apologize here for anything except Salon's extraordinarily anti(New Age-sic) spiritual orientation.

Jeesh. Maybe YOU learned something really important today.

Maybe I should write a letter

Dear Cary,

I'm an extremely intelligent man who has made a successful career and life with a strong spiritual-mystical component as central. I love this magazine but it is mired in anti spiritual bull shit using idiots like Dawkins and Hitchens as exemplars who for their own (and Salon's) convenience set up organized religion as a straw man to avoid the spiritual side of life and create an avoidance of the topic with their continued meaningless antics and stupid rants.

Beside ignoring this crap, is there anything that can be done for this anally retentive side of what otherwise is an often terrific magazine?

Sometimes frustrated in Philly