I think this woman deserves her privacy. Her identity has nothing to do with the newsworthiness of the story. If she chooses on her own to become a public figure, that's different, but outing her as the woman who destroyed Eliot Spitzer's career is salacious and offensive. You should not be dignifying NYT's devolution into tabloid journalism.

Every ounce of respect I once had for Ms. Ferraro has evaporated.

I don't get why good teams out of Mid major conferences (like Missouri State two years ago) are consistently left out of the field in favor of the dregs of the major conferences (Kentucky, Arizona, Oregon, Villanova, etc.) Illinois State had a higher RPI than many teams that made it. It seems like Kentucky and Arizona are there on reputation, and not because they have managed to play good basketball for an entire season.

I had Clemson going to the Final Four!

I'm getting sick and tired of all the veiled racism among media figures. Finally we have the id describing what underlies it all.

Clinton cools down on her negative framing of Obama. If she succeeds in poisoning his campaign, rather than going to the finish honorably, she builds negative images of her campaign and his campaign that will work against the eventual Democratic nominee. If it reaches the point (and, frankly I'm nearly there) that a plurality of supporters of one campaign view the other candidate as unacceptable because they are buying into Clinton's race-baiting or Clinton's view that Obama is too inexperienced to be "Commander-in-Chief", the advantage of organization building will be negated and a shift of voters to McCain (who should be unacceptable to Obama's and Clinton's supporters) could be a very real result.

I wish Obama and Clinton could at least come together and make a statement that the other would be a better president than McCain. Because of the cryptic patriotism comments (linking McCain and Clinton), and things like the "3 AM" ad, I find Clinton more at fault than Obama.

Only about a month ago, I was still defending Clinton, even if I disagreed with some of her tactics. However, as she has continued to use racially charged language and patriotism remarks--as she goes to the Republican playbook--she is becoming a more and more unacceptable candidate. If she manages to become the Democratic nominee, I will have a hard time rallying to her, and I am strongly considering writing in "Barack Obama."

This recalls the episode where the press was weirded out by Hillary's presence on their bus, with cookies! They buy McCain donuts and fawn over his BBQ (on his wife's estate), but a gesture from Clinton is met with ridicule and disdain. No larger point here, just an observation.

Law was at one time a meritocracy that allowed attorneys to earn a comfortable upper-class income. However, extreme saturation in large markets like Chicago and New York has resulted in private practice salaries falling below $60,000 a year. Lawyers are now increasingly falling into the middle class while struggling with $100,000+ student loan debts. The Wall Street Journal wrote about it last fall. http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119040786780835602.html

The guide is sloppy. The "Don't Miss" section contains acts that are appearing in several festivals. Bands like the New Pornographers, Duffy, Golgol Bordello and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, appear at multiple festivals appearing in the guide. It doesn't make sense to highlight them as don't miss for some festivals and not others. The "survival tips" section also contains information that carries across festivals. Why highlight the two factory sealed bottles of water restriction only for the Virgin festival when many other festivals carry the same or a similar restriction? In addition, the comparison between Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and Amy Winehouse was more than a little weird because the Dap Kings were Winehouse's backing band on her big album and on her last tour. Both acts were also produced by the same guy, Mark Ronson.

Some nerds are lucky enough to go to schools (even public schools) with huge theater budgets and dedicated drama instructors. Most students never have the chance to be in wonderful productions like the ones in the video. We should celebrate these wonderful students, but we shouldn't forget that they are from the privileged minority.

...I remember why I canceled my subscription.

I check in once in a while, because I remember the good journalism that was done here during the Bush Administration and during the 2004 election. I still read Glenn Greenwald and King Kaufman regularly. However, Ms. Walsh's anti-Obama bias needs to stop. He's the Democratic nominee, and he's the only chance to get a progressive into office in 2008. Are there questions about him? Absolutely, but if Salon wishes to remain a progressive news organization, it needs to drop the Republican talking points and follow the clearly superior candidate.

John McCain did not "win" the faith forum. Snappy answers and pandering are not a superior debating tactic. However, they may become so if the media loses its focus on the truth and treats the public with total contempt. It's time to trust the intelligence of your audience and start reporting the truth.

You should be promoting the fact that Obama actually bothered to listen to and thoughtfully answer questions rather than simply reciting lines from his stump speech. The story here is that while Saddlecreek members are not more likely to vote for Obama now, they certainly have gained a respect for his faith and his values. John McCain, despite his snappy answers, seemed to have quite a bit of trouble with the questions and he came across fake and awkward. That's what happened and that's the story you should have reported.

Until you decide to rejoin progressive politics, I will not re-up my subscription.