Like so many other Americans, I don't have health insurance right now. Not having health insurance, and unable to afford tests, I'm forgoing a lot of screenings I probably should be having done. Hey, Rudy, with no way to pay for treatment, if I should get diagnosed somewhere down the line here (probably at some later stage of cancer) would you say I'd be better off here, or in Canada or England? Where would my chances of survival be better then? Then again, with the diagnosis coming so late or even too late, would it even really matter where I lived? If it was here, would my deathbed thoughts center around how much worse it might have been if I lived in England?

Glad to see that the Government covered your ass — or prostrate — when you needed it, just as the taxpayers will pick up the tab for your health care if you get elected President. We will do this even though you are far wealthier than most taxpayers and could pay for it yourself. Even though some of us are forgoing tests because we can't afford it, you will probably get tested at least once a year, and then get back to the podium to explain how it would be a total disaster, a national nightmare, ifanyone who isn't you had access to healthcare.

I think worst of all, Rudy, it seems you came back from a brush with death with no perspective, gratitude or spiritual awakening. You seem to have reevaluated nothing and can only think of the same shopworn and useless bromides, and your own unstoppable will to power. Let's see if I hear you right... torture such as waterboarding is variable and open to debate dependent on who's doing the torturing, but national health care is unequivocally bad and immoral, period. End of story; end of debate. National health care is wrong!

When did I wake up in Bizarro World? How do I get back to my home dimension?

Or could she even chew gum and ask questions at the same time?

"Mr. Kook an Inch, Umm, I mean Senator or Congressor or whatever your name is pronounced, you've criticized President Bush and stuff for trying to keep us all safe from the war on terror or whatever, but someone told me you were attacked by a UFO or something... What's that all about?"

Good lord. "We'll have you back if you get to be third in the polls." So snide and condescending from a fifth-tier hack, dressed up in a journalist costume. She won't have to fulfill any standard for her to be back. Even with nothing to offer, she'll be back anyway... following this important commercial announcement!

Perhaps the most disheartening thing is that a couple of times Hannah even hinted that there were more interesting lines of questioning she — could — pursue, then she threw them away in favor of pursuing the pointless questions to death.

Her line of questioning wasn't incompetent, it was a deliberate choice. The Kucinich's must have been wondering why the hell they even bothered showing up; the whole thing was instantly reduced to baby talk. They weathered it with far more grace than I would have.

Yeah, I still can't believe Jerry Seinfeld had a chance to make a comedy about talking, lawsuit filing bees, and then totally ruined the whole premise by not going on and on about how human females are every bit as good, if not better, than men because male bees are basically good for nothing in the hive, therefore human males are basically pointless and unnecessary, too.

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. How could you have blown this golden opportunity so badly?

Tex Avery and Chuck Jones worked in animation factories, too. And most of their cartoons were basically a series of gags wrapped around a flimsy premise. Chuck Jones did manage to occasionally do some clever work in the short cartoon form, but it's puzzling that you would promote it to some position of vast superiority over the work being produced by Disney during the same time period.

What could Tex Avery, Chuck Jones have done with the technology? Good question. It would be interesting to have seen how much more realistic the "Aow-oogah" eyes would have been when someone saw something startling and their eyes literally popped out and hovered momentarily in the air. And just think how much better the classic "Coyote plummets to the canyon floor" gag would have been when augmented with CGI.

—We have gags, racial and cultural stereotypes and anthropomorphic animals, who needs a story?

Excuse me? Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Coyote and Road Runner cover the anthropomorphic animals part, and did you ever hear of "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs"? Have you ever seen the wartime cartoons depicting Japanese soldiers as bucktoothed nearly-blind gnomish freaks?

Really, your assessment of the current animation industry literally doesn't make any sense. Go watch "Ratatouille" or Brad Bird's other great film "The Iron Giant" and tell me you can only see a collected series of gags with no evidence of craft, skill, writing or merit.

I had to give up watching Meerkat Manor in the first season. It was just too hard to watch. When Shakespeare got bitten by a snake and then disappeared for a couple of shows, the suspense was just more than I wanted to have in my life. That's right, I was wracked with worry over the fate of that brave little meerkat. Agggh!