Andrew, you wrote about income here, but this issue includes another tax cut. Bush and his tax cuts!

Maybe you can write about federal deficit spending. Bush said the other night that he wants to balance the federal budget... After he and his pals destroyed, mutilated, incinerated any chance for balance!

Bush shamelessly, cynically speaking of budget balance is like an arsonist leading the campaign to prevent forest fires.

After reading twice, I am pretty sure that you, Andrew, my hero, are in favor of free information. But you wrote too ironically. That obscures your message.

Smart people may not know what you are writing, and they have plenty of clearer stuff to read. Please take a look at what you wrote, and clean it up.

200 pizzas with pepperoni and lies, and 400 deep-dish with mushroom clouds and extra cynicism. You say you didn't order any pizza?

Nos Mortaturi Te Salutamus!

(And shouldn't you have a question mark rather than a period on the first sentence of your last paragraph today?)

Vale!

Some of you Salon posters will know how to plant this story, and let it grow on the www:

In 1972, G.W. Bush went AWOL from his military unit, and he never has explained... Now the truth can be told!

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In 1972, President Richard Nixon personally picked a certain outstanding, bright young Lieutenant (G.W. Bush) for an extremely vital secret mission somewhere in Southeast Asia. This mission was SO SECRET and SO IMPORTANT that G.W. Bush could not even tell his commanding officer in the Texas National Guard.

And he STILL can't talk about it, because it was ABSOLUTELY VITAL TO THE FREE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!

Humble, patriotic, honorable Lt. G.W. Bush grew up to be President, but he still will not speak about his mission, even when Liberal Media Villains such as Dan Rather persecute him, because he took a vow of secrecy.

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I actually have e-mailed this story to the White House for confirmation, and the White House did not deny it!

Can we maybe fill in more detail, and get this story out, and then laugh, and prove that we started it here at Salon?

Good job, Tim!

From a reader's point of view, the articles are the steak and the stew and the casserole and the parfait. The letters are side dishes.

Usually, the sides add a lot to the meal. But we do not have to eat them.

Salon has a good arrangement.

What do you mean by this? (quote below)

"Publications will doubtless come up with ways to filter the reader dreck. (At Salon, we have a few simple changes in the works.)"

Rather than cutting the letters back, I suggest you use your resources to publish more articles.

Whacky suggestion: Award prizes to Salon posters in several categories: Best Spelling and so on. If you want better letters, you need to give us examples of what you want to see.

I fear that W. Bush can't tell his Sadr from his Badr, any more than he knew or cared about the difference between Saddam and Ossama.

W. Bush has come back stronger since the election. We and Congress need to get after him him now. Is Congress bogged down? I fear so.

W. Bush thinks they use the towels on their heads to dry themselves after they take Baaths. Or after Bush's guys waterboard them.

And he thinks we are even dumber than he is. He believes we will fall for his lies at least one more time. Will we?

Judging the trees by their fruit: My German and English colleagues do not work as hard or worry as much as Americans. They still have better access to good education and good medical care than Americans have.

Our same-level (middle level) German and English colleagues do very well for themselves and their families. And they are NOT falling into a third-world economic hell. They are NOT losing all the benefits of their "socialist" societies.

They have not suffered nearly as much as Americans have from economic turmoil over the past quarter century, despite all the theoretical, ideological predictions we hear from market economists. In many ways, they are better off than we are. This probably was not true twenty-five years ago, but it is pretty obvious now.

American politicians keep reminding us that we are better off than most people in the Third World, but we need to compare ourselves with the First World as well. The Europeans are proving you right, Andrew Leonard. Let's see how life looks in another ten years.

That Admiral, the new overall commander (I forgot his name), told the Senators that they would have to "lower their expectations in Iraq." While Bush is telling us to raise our expecations from pull-back to victory. ???

P.S. Whether or not Congress is bogged down on Iraq, Poster Nickin's suggestions that Congress de-fund Guantanamo and de-legalize Torture and Dungeons is superb.

Did you have to describe the booger so much, including its color? I would have been happier with a more abstract booger.

I is nice to read a Palestinian leader speaking rationally, in a straight-forward, practical manner. One thing about reading his words, rather than hearing them, is that his accent is gone. That Palestinian accent, which many Americans and Israelis think of as a Terrorist accent.

Americans and Israelis, please read what Frangi says here.

!. Fifteen folks on a hardwood court

Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of thump...

2. Is the NFL Union contributing anything to the old guys? If the current players contributed, maybe a percent or two of their salaries, maybe the owners would match.

We cannot put up another candidate who cannot talk. Biden just Swiftboated himself, as Kerry did with the Botched Joke.

You really cannot get away with calling an African American, "Articulate." It is a known no-no. Bye-Bye Biden. No matter how good a President you might be, we need a better candidate.