I used to have a house in Northern Wisconsin, right on a lake. The water was beautiful, and we waited in vain for global warming to make the winter go away. Then we realized that while we could end up warmer, we would never end up with more light in the winter. So we moved to California, to a spot that has had and continues to have a fair amount of water (seven inches this weekend alone). My current plan, should I have to evacuate, is Eureka!

is a very young person, and his ideas show it.

I believe you. As you will remember, you asserted that the Ohio count was fair within a day after the election. Didn't believe you then, don't believe you now--about Ohio, But this makes sense. I consider you reformed.

Goodness, Joe, where do you think you are? Salon readers are some of the meanest. Look what they did to Deborah Dickerson. I think you're pretty good almost all of the time. And my candidate dropped out, sorry to say.

What's the rent and when are you vacating? Also--good thing youre getting this worked out while you are still single. It's even worse when the children are asking you if you could just buy that one little toy. Once I told my husband that we only had 127 smackers to last the summer (it was May!), and he said, "Let's go to Target." Fortunately, we didn't have any credit cards. Good luck!

My guess is that you will get to vote for your candidate, and he'll be a winning one sooner rather than later. The more we talk about gay marriage and issues of sexuality, the less secret they are and the more mainstream. At some point, gay marriage will be an "of course, what have we been waiting for?' sort of issue. With Obama, I am beginning to wonder if racism works the same way--the more we talk about it, the less frightening and powerful it is. So We'll see in two or four years if we've broken the mold this time, but I am hopeful. Now we just have to get going on the military-industrial complex.

$1400 is nothing when you are vetting a horse. I spent $6000 on a dog once, and didn't regret it, But still, she was poisoned. I might not have spent that kind of money on an illness. I spent $7000 on a foal last summer who came down with strep equi and had to have intensive care. I would hesitate before spending that kind of money on myself, actually. But hey, maybe he'll win the Kentucky Derby. On the other hand, I spent 1200 once on a spinal operation for a Great Dane, and a medical professional I knew told me that same procedure would cost 30,000 for a human, so I decided that I'd gotten a bargain.

These guys are getting to sound more and more like the diehard rightwing in Japan after WWII, just never ever admitting that any wrong was done, and if it was, then it was done for the right reasons. It's clearly an illness or a syndrome, or maybe it's just that irreducible fact that 16 percent of any given human population are and will always be jerks.

ranged voting would work better over many candidates but not so well over two. Thus, no primaries. Everyone declares themselves, campaigns for two months, then we go to the polls and range-vote for the whole lot of them.

I think it is amazing that both Rieff and Liebowitz exposed SS to rigorous public scrutiny at the time in her life when she was the most helpless and the least able to be the public, dynamic, and powerful (and good looking)self that she clearly wanted to be. SS was ambivalent (to say the least) about "regarding the pain of others", but her child and her lover invite us to regard her pain in a quite voyeuristic manner. I can't believe that she volunteered to be a subject for them, and to have their photos and ruminations be displayed and printed. Rieff, especially, says he is not a "confessional" writer, so what's the point? The contemplation of death? Well, why not pick someone else besides Mom? I think this whole project reeks of bad faith. Ugh.

Go to Butter Burger? THose are the best, but you can only eat one before you die. I used to have a house in Northern Wisconsin. It was fabulous and wonderful in every single way. Our lake spoiled me so much that I haven't gone swimming since I lived in that house. I love Wisconsin. It is a breathtakingly beautiful state. Thanks for the article. Cheeseheads are wonderful people.

Then you keep the old ones for when he loses his.

Over the course of three marriages on my side and two on his, my partner and I have accumulated five kids (the offspring of six parents). They all have siblings of some sort that they like, but we have a net deficit on the replacement scale. I have other theories about the wonders of divorce, but this is the only one that fits into this article.

Here is how groups deal with over-population--infanticide, infertility, abortion, killing old people, epidemics, pandemics, wars, genocides, starvation. It isn't nice, but it's inevitable, at least here and there. (Here and there, it's already happening). Globalization in all its glory also means the globalization of these operations. They will be coming to your children some day, or their children. I had my children before we quite realized what was in store. I'm glad they are alive for my sake, but for their sake, I wonder. If I were you, I'd stop now. I hope my children do not want to reproduce.

And he knew the law. That's the problem. If the law is bad, too bad. He's under oath to uphold the law.

a F***ing liar!