some hippie-dippy notion of marital equality

What the hell is that supposed to mean? You call yourself a feminist and then sneer at the notion of marital equality?

I could not possibly point to better evidence that the so-called "feminism" on Broadsheet is, for the most part, a sham. As I've said before, there's way too much nastiness and backbiting here for me to believe that you people are actually feminists. You're just using the label as an excuse to pick and choose among the behaviors and situations that YOU approve of.

Hippy-dippy indeed. I'll be sure to remind you of that, Tracy, the next time you post about some gender injustice.

Feh.

Have people gotten so pathetically addicted to machines that they actually need one to tell them if their dogs are FAT? Don't they have eyes?

No dog owner I know needs one of those ridiculous things. Why? Because they're the ones who feed their dogs. They know what the dogs are eating every day, and can see whether they're gaining or not. How is having some dumb doohickey going to change that?

It's just a scam to get people to rely on machines even more, and not trust their own judgment. Anyone stupid enough to buy one of these things deserves to be ripped off, in my opinion.

That's what I'm feeling reading these letters. That article had me thinking, "Am I missing something here? Is this a really good article and I'm just not getting it?"

I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who thinks this "article" (it's more like self-satisfied rambling) is mean-spirited, cruel, lazy, and a rather surprising display of ignorance, both cultural and practical. If this is the level of writing usually displayed by Wadhams, I certainly hope no news organization is silly enough to give him any more grants.

And I must agree about both the emails and the SIM card. The emails: that is quite an egregious breach of confidentiality, and will make a lot of people think twice about ever trusting a journalist. The SIM card: WOW. A perfect example of the Ugly American, insisting on his spoiled way no matter what consequence it might have for others. Way to help our image abroad, dude.

Salon, you've been outdoing yourselves almost daily in posting worthless tripe lately. If this is what you call good journalism, then you're heading downhill faster than I thought.

not to vote for Hillary. This is a legitimate concern, and her people have made no response? Thanks, lady, for letting us know how much you think of voter's concerns, not to mention worker's rights.

I'm sad to say that over the last couple of years, I've lost all trust I had in this woman. She looked like a good thing for a while, but I simply do not trust her. She gives me a bad feeling - her evasiveness, hobnobbing with Hollywood and people like this union-busting guy, her refusal to admit her mistake in voting for Iraq, the basic cowardice in making that vote at all, her using bandwagon non-issues to get attention while ignoring the things that REALLY matter, etc., etc. She pretends to be something different, but she's proving more and more that she's really just the same.

Edwards may not be perfect, but he's getting my vote. At least he's addressed some of the issues that people care about, which is more than I can say for most of the Democratic candidates.

music for working out is either of Babatunde Olatunji's Drums of Passion CD's: The Invocation or The Beat. Beautiful, steady rhythms, long tracks, virtuoso playing. Drums are the closest natural sound to the human heartbeat, and I find these albums warm and inviting as well as physically invigorating.

Also, I really like C&C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat. It's an older one, but it's perfect for physical exertion. Plus, it's funny too!

This is one of the main reasons why feminism, and liberalism in general, has gotten such a bad name - no sense of humor.

Tracy, the ad is a JOKE. It's supposed to be FUNNY. I sincerely doubt that Trojan, a company that has been selling its product to men for, how long now? seventy years? is actually trying to say that men are pigs. It's a PLAY on the IMAGE of men as pigs - a rather traditional image that WOMEN came up with.

Damn, woman. Have you never heard of the concept of the metaphor? If a guy says "my love is a red, red rose", are you automatically going to assume that he's insulting her by claiming she's nothing but a plant he can cut up, with ugly thorns that hurt him? If so, you'd be missing the entire point! (Not that it would surprise me, frankly.)

You've really got to learn to stop taking things like this so literally. It's a gag on current culture, a poetic metaphor turned to humor, a bit of fun. But as usual, you're looking for any way possible to see it in a negative light. I'm certainly glad I don't see the world the way you do. I'd never have any fun at all.

Whenever this issue comes up, I always remember David and Angie Bowie, who named their son Zowie. Zowie Bowie. Talk about cruelty. Of course, that was back in the 70's. Here's the clincher, though: he's not Zowie Bowie anymore. What's his name now?

Bob Jones.

'Nuff said.