Couldn't a full investigation of all his crimes and Cheney's lead to indictments? Is impeachment the only punishment? Look what's happening to Delay and possibly Rove and all those others. Maybe without impeachment, the criminal justice system could just take them down piece-meal. And Cheney keeps falling asleep. Maybe he is going to die.

I have three kids and two step-kids, lots of nieces and nephews. I have found that the best way of preparing for their teen-aged years (and later) is looking at the teen-aged years of their parents, aunts, and uncles (that's right, you, mom, you, dad, and your brothers and sisters and cousins). You can't get away from it, but you can improve on it. All the men in my family are wild. I expect our boys to be wild. But I don't expect to have them shut me out, and they haven't--I've been more accepting of their autonomy than our parents were. All the girls have been snotty--I was snotty. But I expected them to be snotty, and we worked through it. My mother and aunts expected all the kids to show respect at all times and they were very picky and critical. In the end, that's all they have gotten from us--respect and no intimacy. My mother's family is subject to depression and my father was schizophrenic--so far that hasn't shown up in the kids--and lots of us are ADD--that has shown up in the kids, but people know what it is and how to handle it better than they did thirty years ago. Same with depression. The problem is the idea that there can be perfect kids. There can't be perfect kids. There are only kids who make the best of what they get. My experience is that if the parents are attentive, present, non-judgemental, clear, patient, interested, and capable of setting a good example, the kids will make pretty good choices. But they still have a genetic endowment, and you have to accept that.

that's 29%. And as for Tony Snow, so what? He may be a saint in his personal life, but he is shilling for criminals. I am sympathetic to his medical pain, but that doesn't make me like him, or feel allied to him, or wish him well.

There is no good reason to anonymously make assertions such as those you make. So state your name or withdraw your assertions--

Jane Smiley

Manjoo had already made up his mind about the 2004 election by November 10, 2004 (see archived articles). He hasn't changed either his opinion or his tone. I wondered then and i wonder now, what's his motivation and whose payroll is he on? Salon should have assigned another writer to Kennedy's article--one who doesn't have to cover his ass. Manjoo is NOT an expert on this.

Farhad Manjoo has an axe to grind and an ass to cover here. PLEASE DO NOT ask him to write about this issue again. He is not to be trusted, and every time he adds something, he protests too much! He is a lost cause on this issue and should be given other assignments.

Yes, Anthony, once I served a Tofurkey at Thanksgiving, and it WAS soul-destroying. And don't ask me about wholegrain dairy free sugar cookies, either. Got a free range chicken roasting stuffed with a nice lemon, some aromatic bay leaves, and a few onions. What could be bad?

On the cover of the Guardian Sunday magazine a few weeks ago was a picture of Anna Wintour in a sleeveless dress. It was evident in the picture that she has had so much over-exposure to the sun that her upper arms are unsightly with accordian-wrinkles. So, where's the good fashion sense here? Why did she wear that dress? Who told her she looked good in it? Why did she allow The Guardian to humiliate her with such a large, unattractive color picture? If she represents the fashion industry at its highest level, she is not making it seem appealing--rather she is demonstrating that she has no idea how she appears to others. Classic narcissist. And the Streep character is not a good feminist, or female, boss--she is a jerk.

Religion has a long and bloody history--no one can deny it. So when fundamentalists took up their religious enthusiasms again in the US and elsewhere at the end of the 20th century, they did so knowing all about the relationship between literal belief and killing and wishing harm to others. Now we are in the midst of it, and I can only say that if we blow up the world in the name of God, we will have deserved exactly what we will get. The religious ones will of course be surprised not to be spared pain, death, grief, and tribulation, but maybe when they receive it, they will come to their senses at last. Perhaps what they will feel will be something truly appropriate--remorse and shame.

Bolton has been a disaster at the UN. He has offended everyone, and according to a recent article in the NY TImes, even his "allies" (off the record) say that he is worse than useless. He set out to destroy the UN and he has exerted himself to do so. I do not think that now is the time to write off the UN or the need for international law and an international body. In addition, Bolton is personally not the sort of person I want representing me as an American. He is an American of the ugliest and most repellant type. I say get rid of him, bankrupt him, sell his house, bury all of his belongings in a swamp, strip his name from the public record, and abolish all references to every idea he ever had. He is a scumbag.