"Norah, what do you have against the rule of law? We have laws in this country to keep us civilized. What's wrong with investigating wrongdoing or potential wrongdoing, within the limits of law, in order to see if laws have been broken? Would you like it if someone committed a crime against you, and the police decided they wouldn't investigate him because he said he didn't do it?"

The only reason people like Norah O'Donnell are vehemently protesting Karl Rove being placed under oath is because they know they managed to get Clinton on a perjury charge completely unrelated to an on-going investigation. They know Scooter Libby perjured himself in order to protect Cheney. They know Karl Rove will be asked questions where he will have a chance to perjure himself to protect his bosses (or himself). They don't want that. They want Rove to get away. Why does Norah O'Donnell want Rove to get away? Beats the hell out of me, but clearly she wants Rove to be immune to laws that govern the rest of us.

Maybe she's incredibly stupid. She may be so intellectually challenged that she does not know what to do besides parrot Rovian spew about "partisan witch hunts." Sure, she's stupid, that's obvious. But how stupid is she? It would be interesting to find out.

I forgot to mention him in my previous letter. Pat Robertson is the son of a senator and a distant relative of the 9th US President, William Henry Harrison, as well as his grandson, the 23rd US President, Benjamin Harrison.

I'm smart and I have common sense and a sense of decency. I have a desire to do the best I can and to solve problems quickly, cleanly and fairly. I empathize with others (to a point) and I don't expect others to do my work for me or take my blame for me.

That's not elite. The elites are the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Beltway nobodies who got where they are today either through inherited wealth or through their connections to people who have inherited wealth (Brownie, eg).

They are both elite and mediocre.

It is a pretty common phenomenon. It's where the term "a gentleman's C" comes from.

About Imus having daughters. Howard Stern does too and he says some pretty sexist things. Hell, my own father was so disappointed at my sister and I for not being boys that he barely spoke to us our entire lives. Not all men become immune to sexist words or actions when they have daughters. Those who care about their daughters may remain sexist simply because they exempt their daughters from the world of bitches and hos out of a self-satisfied sense of accomplishment, i.e., "but I raised MY daughter the right way.. not like everyone else!"

nothing educates men about sexism quite like having a daughter/

When I was a kid, I wanted to have a paper route and to join Little League, two things my male cousins did without a second thought. They told me I was "stupid" and "crazy" to want such things, because everybody knew girls couldn't be "paper boys" and that nobody wants a girl on their Little League team. Then I said I wanted to be a boy. I was called a dyke.

Today my male cousins have daughters. Some of those girls have been members of school sports teams and two of them won athletic scholarships to college. When I remind my male cousins that they told me I was stupid and crazy for having the audacity to want to play sports and deliver newspapers, they claim they said no such things. "You were just weird" they say. And they still harbor suspicions I'm a "dyke" even though I'm married to a man. In fact, they suspect my husband may be gay since he doesn't drink beer, follow sports, own a gun or a boat and he is a liberal Democrat who reads poetry. And he's a Jew.

I sometimes think prejudices are hardwired into much of the population.

Wouldn't a certificate called a Stillbirth Certificate make sense? Weigh and measure the baby, give his or her name and the time of stillbirth just like on a birth certificate. A Stillbirth Certificate could serve the same purpose as a death certificate and a birth certificate. You would be acknowledging the baby's birth and death, like everyone else's birth and death. Would such a certificate be insensitive?

I was always hearing him demand money from others for his "charity" -- $2.6 million a year to house 100 kids for 10 weeks at his sprawling ranch where the aim was to "teach responsibility through work" to kids with cancer. Sounds less than charitable to me to want to teach responsibility to kids with a terminal medical condition. Of course, he got to spend his holidays at the ranch during those 42 weeks of the year when he wasn't having a few sick kids out there cattle rustling.

He's also one of those cranks insisting that thimerosal causes autism without mentioning that Denmark banned thimerosal in the 1990s and has seen an increase, not a decrease, in autism.

One less crank pushing junk science to worried parents is another good thing to result from this.

You forgot to invoke Catholics For a Free Choice when you mentioned Bill Donohue's name. I passed the link on to a friend of mine, a Catholic women's health nurse practitioner who was thrilled with the organization, especially when she saw Susan Wysocki, RNC, NP President and CEO of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health in Washington, DC is on the board of Catholic's For a Free Choice.

See, you already did good by mentioning them once. Keep it up.

And I sometimes wonder if I will be seen as the person who babysat for 18 years.