Clinton would throw her own grandmother under a train to get elected president. Just because she's a woman it doesn't necessarily follow that she'll do anything to help other women. I bet she'd be pro-life if her advisors told her it would get her elected. She has no backbone. Look at how she screwed up when she had the opportunity to fix health care and look at her support for the war. Two incidents many years apart, but they sum her up.

Clinton is more flawed than the other candidates. Obama was against the war from the beginning and had the courage to say so even when that view was unpopular.

The judge should have ignored their religion. Also, as they were in a German court, German culture is what's important. I'm a liberal and I think the judge should be overruled for abuse of discretion.

You say to her, "you're lucky that the legal system protected you from your pedophile pervert grandfather because your father and I certainly wouldn't have. We probably would even have found a way to blame you for any abuse. Gosh, you're such a lucky little girl, say 'thank you' to the nice district attorney."

Jane Austen was engaged, for a few hours, to a very wealthy young landowner named Harris Bigg-Wither. Jane and her sister, Cassandra, were visiting his sisters when he proposed. She accepted and the five girls happily celebrated what a good marriage Jane was going to make and how lucky she was. By the next day, Jane realized that she didn't love him, so she withdrew her acceptance and went home.

In future, perhaps Mr. McGrath could offer his readers a well-researched article rather than his own speculations. I'm also disappointed that Ms. Harris merely summarized the Times article, rather than going on to challenge its false statement.

The letter writer doesn't make clear how the aide feels. Does she want to have a relationship with the father or did she just laugh off his condom suggestion and treat him like an invalid old man? If she wants to have a relationship with him, they shouldn't interfere. If she's treating him as harmless they should take steps to protect her.

I always figured that when I got pregnant I just had to stay out of Catholic hospitals to be safe (they consider it more important to deliver the baby [so it can be baptized] than to save the woman, if it comes down to a choice between the two). Now I wonder if I should spend all of my pregnancies in Canada or at least be sure to go to a hospital in Canada for the births?

I know this is an unpopular sentiment these days, but when I'm pregnant or giving birth, if it comes down to a choice between me and the baby, I want to live. It's horrifying to think of being a patient in a hospital that puts anyone else's life before mine. I'm glad I have a few more years to decide on these things, but I feel bad for the women who are going to be the test cases for this horrible new policy. Well, the survivors of it and the families of those women who don't survive this.

I'd like to see a cite to that Kansas report. Perhaps the abortions were listed as for "mental health" reasons as shorthand for, "the fetus is braindead and the doctor feels it would be better for the woman's mental health that she not have to go through labor to deliver a dead baby."

Also, why should a woman who's had two prior abortions be denied another? Is it that you feel she should be forced to carry to term because she'd be just the bestest mommy ever!!! Or is it that you feel she should be punished for having had sex again after an abortion?

If you're going to make a claim, you have to back it up. I'm not going to do your research and citations for you.

I don't care what you think of my morals, I suspect I wouldn't agree with your moral beliefs either. As for the "bestest mommy ever" quote, it's because I'm wondering why you think a woman who's had several abortions should be forced to carry the next pregnancy to term? Your quote "[w]omen being responsible for their actions" makes it quite clear that you believe a woman should be punished for having sex by being forced to have a baby. You don't care a bit about what that child's life would be like, you're so intent on punishing the woman.

So, let me understand this, if I can find a picture of Tolkien blowing C.S. Lewis, then that's in the game... but only between humans, because totally different documentation would be required for hot elf-dwarf lovin'.

They're getting too bound up in "authenticity." It's going to go about as well as book-based movies that hew too close to the text. The audience they're trying to appeal to is going to find something to criticize anyway (as with the squirrel color). Also, as one of those elusive female gamers, I would like to state that if I can't see two hot elf guys making out, there's no reason for me to turn off Sims 2 and play your game instead.

The only way that picture could make drinking look any less glamorous is if she had Bill Gates sitting on her lap.