Talbot better watch it out or he'll end up like Naomi Wolfe--her kids' report cards are missing.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122218942950967645.html

"Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly [sic] to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly [sic] to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' [sic] report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters [sic] many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived."

Can Joan hire Naomi for a nice rant, too? She's gotten everyone else around.

And she's so dumb, too. Did anyone catch her saying this:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.' "

Bernbart--no one who knows anything about journalism speaks to the press. It's only fools and knaves who open themselves up to the sideshow.

Honey, he's living in, but he ain't your boyfriend. Hell, he's not even a friend. He does not care two hoots about you.

Put his junk into storage, change the locks and either buy a gun or get a big dog. Or train a big dog to use a gun.

And Cary, cut the crap and give her some news she can use.

Mike

"but he is entitled to come home and not discover that he has to spend the night in the park. Wait for him to come home and have it out."

Maybe on the planet Zircon, but not everyone is a programmer/android. And even if she does put his stuff in the driveway, at least he's comforted by the knowledge that he's had sex with a real, live woman.

Palin's pageants were local pageants that fed into Miss America, the largest source of scholarship money for women in the world. Diane Sawyer competed in a Junior Miss pageant, and wore a swimsuit as well, and I don't see Salon readers demanding that she quit the business.

Salon's wall-to-wall Palin coverage is fitfully amusing, but I wonder why. Are the editors so bereft of purpose that covering every move the Gov. of Alaska has ever made more interesting than the rest of the news? Or is it just easier to write rants?

Joan said:

"But anyway, one of the reasons that they hate me is that I attacked some of them for outing Andrew Sullivan a few years ago, when his online profile was uncovered and it lead to it becoming public what he might be doing in his private life. I thought that was off limits."

But since Palin's running for office, every move she's ever made is fair game. Esp. since Joan doesn't like her.

One of the prime ministers of Australia set a record for chugging 2 1/2 pints of beer in 11 seconds when he was at Oxford. Somehow the Aussies managed to overlook the shame/disgrace/wackiness of this accomplishment and elect him. I suggest that Cary's readers who are overcome by Gov. Palin move away, but not to Australia.

And is Joan getting a big fat bonus this year, based on all the Palin coverage?

B Moore--so eating moose is wrong? How do you like wild animals to die? Tucked into a cushy bed, surrounded by their family and friends?

Do you know where your food comes from? Or do you just consume blindly whatever you find at the market? That's a far less morally defensible action that shooting your own meat.

Nancy Ott, who's been following Alaskan politics for decades, bemoans Palin's firing of "competent civil servants", but seems to have never heard of Travelgate.

New brooms, at least the elected ones, sweep clean. Does Ott think that Obama should leave in place all of Bush's cronies--but they're not "competent civil servants", right? Of course, do "competent civil servants" even exist?

What elected official leaves in place those appointed by the opposition? Do tell us more.

Brigid--if you'd have stayed in school, you'd have a better job than working in a meat packing plant. Not too late--you could still get your GED.

I can just imagine the editorial meetings at Salon. Going around the virtual table, EIC Joan Walsh (a proud UWisc. grad) queries as to what lucky contributor gets to write the Palin piece o' the day. Woe be to the unlucky staffer/frequent freelancer who wants to write about something else.

This entire election coverage is a low point for Salon. But, as long as those Grape Nuts ads keep running, Joan can keep the lights on. And what could be better than that?

Wynchwood--not all born-again churches cleave to the man-dominated household as a standard. You might want to check that. Facts are important. Just as not all Muslims are self-bombing wackos.