MAHER: I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic. It just shows you, you can...

KING: You mean you don't get a -- you don't get a flu shot?

MAHER: A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

KING: Why?

MAHER: Because it's got -- it's got mercury.

KING: It prevents flu.

MAHER: It doesn't prevent. First of all, that's...

KING: I haven't had the flu in 25 years since I've been taking a flu shot.

MAHER: Well, I hate to tell you, Larry, but if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease. I would stop getting your...

KING: What did you say?

MAHER: That went better in rehearsal but it was still good. Absolutely, no the defense against disease is to have a strong immune system. A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Whatever. The genius of Larry Charles is what makes this movie great. Maher's just in the shots. He looks stoned most of the time in the film.

"narcissitic back-stabber whose primary interest is in climbing her way to the top"

Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton

Barney Frank

Nancy Pelosi

Indeed, are there politicians who don't fit into this category?

All the readers who want the LW to travel do so because they just want this guy out of the country and away from them.

How about mastering something--musical instrument, sport (not riding your bike, you douche), language, cooking, woodworking, sculpture, gardening? And not Etsy-shop crafts, but real mastery.

Don't go back to school just to hang out. Perhaps volunteering for something that isn't trendy or cool or a place to meet other hipsters just like you.

The same government that can't deliver my mail can orchestrate an huge networked conspiracy of silence and subsequent coverup? You said it--you're crazy. And you need to do more volunteer work or get a hobby.

"dull, plodding work who yearn for a more meaningful existence"

Has the letter writer never thought that one man's "dull plodding work" is another person's secure, meaningful existence?

How many Salon readers work the graveyard shift at an assembly line job? How many mine for coal or dig ditches?

Let's stop with the self-aggrandizing self-abasement.

Got enough to pay your bills? Count yourself blessed.

The rich cousin gives his money to various charities because he believes that they will use his money wisely. Also, because he gets a tax deduction.

Why would he give the letter writer a dime? Th LW obviously lives a rich fantasy life, which bodes ill for a judicious use of any windfall.

Summing up--give the LW $500, and he's high for a day or two.

The letter writer's brother might have Asperger's, but he can also be an unfeeling, rude, boorish jerk. (You know, a Democrat who teaches at a public university.) And of course, he married someone with chronic fatigue. That or she developed it as a defense mechanism.

She should be thrilled that the brother and wifie haven't reproduced. He's not necessarily a good person with a good heart, and while it's sad that he's divorced himself from his parents, she can't force him to be civil.

Anyone having a different opinion than seasoned political commentator and journalist Kate Harding is obviously too stupid to vote. She's just brilliant, remember?

Does anyone think the Obama family isn't getting the same thing? How naive Salon is.

The make up artist is a member of IATSE. Her day rate is around $550, as set by the union.

Swedish TV has two national news reports daily. Two.

My parents were heavy smokers. Two packs of Luckies a day. My dad died of lung cancer, 15 years ago in his 60s. My mom is well, hearty and quit a couple of years back. She just turned 80. I don't have allergies, lung disease or any interest in smoking.

He needs to quit, the kids need a dad. Make him get the patch, enroll in behaviour mod, and smoke outside.

And get over yourself.

Cary omits the obvious: maybe the guy's hung like a horse. Maybe they have crazy fun together, when he's not high and she's talking baby talk.

The LW needs to stop pretending that friendship is the guiding principal here and get a life. And myob.

I'm sure Cary's sister feels much better after reading his response.

The LW wants things her way, and will probably make her husband's life a living hell if she doesn't get what she wants. She doesn't want to take care of her MIL and probably will not take Cary's advice, as she doesn't care how the MIL gets the care she needs.

Ask yourself what our President-elect would do.

Edward O'Grady

Waverly Brown

Peter Paige

Has Ayers ever done anything for the children of these men?

Considering that Mooney, broke, single and pregnant, moved back in with mom and dad, only to repay them by writing:

"But it also means raising my son in an environment where stiff upper lips are mandatory, where his illegitimate arrival was first greeted with shock and shame, where emotions are swallowed and then fester. Though my family has plenty of positive traits that I hope he'll inherit — the loving of reading, for one — when it comes down to it, I don't want to raise my son the way my parents raised me."

it's not the lack of toys her son will question, but rather her lack of good judgment and gratitude.

How many more pieces can she get out of her kid, her parents, and her own befuddlement?

How is the brother's financial situation any business of the LW's? Is the LW hoping to inherit or touch his brother for a loan?

Why does Cary think this is a reasonable inquiry? The brother's money is his, to with as he chooses. Maybe the LW needs to get a better job.