I was shocked and pleased to see tomreedtoon riding to HH’s defense in the letters section today. Like many readers of Salon I can’t stand the trolls who hide behind anonymity and throw there little bombs and run away. The site is far too cluttered with this crap and I wish there were a way of avoiding it although I suppose that this is the price one pays for keeping the “public” in public forum. All this said, a portion of tomreedtoon’s letter did jump out at me;

“We can't leave our homes without being raped or killed. There is no such thing as community, anywhere in America. Even sex inevitably leads to jealousy, possessiveness and murder.”

Now I begin to understand why you sometimes seem so cranky. You need to move, this is no way to live. I live in the urban center of a middling city in the American south for crying out loud, and I can leave my house without being raped or killed, at least while the sun's up (I have to go out for beer later… boy wouldn’t that be ironic). believe me, community isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and as for sex… gosh, I thought I had it tough. You’ve gotta stop letting brightstar65 set up your blind dates. Maybe you should move to HH’s neighborhood, she seems to like it and maybe you could get to be friends with that lazy, elitist woman who never changes out of her bath robe. At least you’d have something to talk about.

As triumph the insult comedy dog would say "we kid because we love".

The challenge for Congress now is to see if it can learn from the mistakes and duplicate the successes.

So what you're saying is... we're screwed.

Republican plan?

Hi Garison,

Here in Virginia, it seems that every year there is legislation introduced to withdraw the Commonwealth from NCLB, usually along the lines of it being a ruinously expensive unfunded mandate, which in fact it is at present. I think it is ironic that when the conservatives who are invariably the authors of these bills come before committee to complain about a bill claimed by their president as one of the hallmarks of his term in office and consistently short changed by one GOP congress after another, they always refer to NCLB as Senator Kennedy’s education program. Victory has a thousand fathers; failure is always looking to hang a paternity claim on somebody else.

Shame on you, counter revolutionary lackeys and running dogs for your imperialist mis-interpretations of the beloved Chairman. Clearly the Great Helmsman was only kidding, as he often did when engaging in light banter and class struggle with paper tigers, for did he not also say: "Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!” of course he did. So that settles that.... Unless of course, the Great Supreme Commander’s intention all along was to send a 10 million strong cadre of politically aware and revolutionarily indoctrinated hotties to open a new, sexy front in the struggle with the rapacious, and corrupt forces of reactionary imperialism… talk about thawing the cold war… I think you gals are on to something.

“Dare to struggle, dare to win!”

"homemade semen recipe"... I want bably to write something here, but I also know that it's best to just back away slowly from the keyboard. I've learned over the years that I shouldn't type about anything that makes me cackle like a 13 year old. "solidifies in the female's vagina like a plug"..."semen-removal devices"... no, no, stop typeing this is just going end badly, stop typeing... there, I'm better now.

"Saudi Arabian Witchcraft Trial"!!! Oh for crying out loud!