I thought your article was interesting. But I had just a few points:

- Why do you care so much what Rick Warren gets to do on inaguration? He's not setting policy and nobody is going to listen to him anyway. If you want to go after one bigoted pastor I demand you go after every bigoted pastor in the country or stop wasting my time.

- You can make the argument that sexist remarks or 'gender baiting' remarks were made on Obama's side during the primaries. Some were. But I would make the point that racist remarks or 'race baiting' remarks were made on Clinton's side. Again, some were.

To determine which side was more guilty of this, or who had the more offenses numerically, would be impossible. Unless you've bugged each and every home, restaurant, coffee shop, etc., in America. Check with Cheney.

The big difference between the two is only on one side were the comments made more often by active supporters, official campaign workers, her husband, her inner circle, and the actual head of the ticket herself. You can claim taken out of context as much as you like for all of these offenses, but we'd be taking so many things out of context here that we'd have enough words to write a novel.

- The racism/sexism angle is pointless in the long run, because I'm sorry Joan, Hillary Clinton was never going to be President. Even if Obama hadn't run, and Edwards was her only competition, even in this year of Republican being a swear word, even if she had won the primary, Hillary still would have lost the general election. Not just because she ran a horrible campaign, that was so incompetent that it didn't even try to hide its dirty tricks, that was schizophrenic in message, was undisciplined, mean spirited, deceitful, was the gang that couldn't even load the gun let alone shoot straight.

Pure and simple, Hillary is never going to be President because one, she is not much of a politician, but mostly, and I can't stress this enough, because she has to be one of the most hated people in American politics.

You take the normal rabid conservative. How long were you ever able to talk anything political before they brought her into the fray? You could be talking Northwestern agriculture, and within five minutes your average conservative has made some loose tie to Clinton just so they can vent how much he/she can't stand her. I imagine this was a lot of what it was like with Nixon forty years ago with liberals.

She could win half the dem primaries voters, fine. What's that, about 20% of the American populace? Do you really think someone with her dubious track record, questionable ethics, and oblivous attitude to her own poor ability to lie was going to make much dent in the rest of the nation?

Perhaps you don't see it Joan, because you're well inside that 20%, but the great majority of the rest of us vary from not trusting her to outright hating her with a passion. Even a lot of people who did vote for her or would have in a general don't trust her. She's never given much reason to. The lines would have miles long on election day of people just wanting to do nothing more than to vote against Clinton. People don't like her. I don't trust her.

You say you're worried about Obama, well, I am too. I'm worried he'll fail.

Conversely, if it was Hillary three weeks away from the oath, I'd still be worried. But not that she'd fail as such; I'd be more worried that we'd all come to find out that she was totally lying about every campaign promise she ever made.

So Joan, there is one huge mistake that you made last year that I don't think you can quite see just yet. Perhaps you never will. But I would think that your mistake to actually see Hillary Clinton as a viable candidate, to this very day even, is your biggest mistake of the year.

This show is definitely in the top five sci- fi of all time. Last night's episode was incredible.

And, yeah, this show is infinitely better than any of the Star Trek series. I love them, but they tend to be blindly optimistic at the expense of true character. And exactly how can you criticize BSG for still using diesel, as someone previously did, when in Star Trek warp propulsion is just going really really fast?

Star Trek is still in the top five though, along with BSG, Farscape, The Twilight Zone, and The Prisoner. Doctor Who, even though its really campy, is up there too.