...is ridiculously high. Good to know that Salon women are/have been hot or just "really pretty". But of course their hard work and merit is what really got them whereever they are today. And the men are incredibly unjudgemental, love their older, wrikled wives and apparently do not check out the breasts of their waitress/babysitter/daughter's friend. The overall smugness covered as "honesty" is appalling.

In fucking up the bellcurve, I am the unattractive Salon reader. Perhaps this is why I don't subscribe (You do know attractive people make more money, don't you?). People do not notice me when I walk into a room. I don't get guys asking me for my phone number or following me around the grocery store. I have a good personality though and other talents, so I'm not throwing a pity party. I have friends, I have had significant others, I have a life.

However I do know how attractive people get treated and that they take it for granted. To badly paraphrase Molly Ivins, it's like you were born on third and think you hit a triple. You get service at the bar/restaurant quicker. People hold doors open for you. Now that the looks are fading, you will get to see how someone like myself lives. Maybe you'll realize how little of yourself you might have developed or revealed to others because you've never needed to attract people, they come to you. Or how much time you've invested in your appearance. Something tells me though, that you will not become "ugly" overnight, that the door of attractiveness will not slam in your face immediately. At least you'll have time to get used to it, instead of always being on the outside. And time to moisturize.

Giuliani reminds me of plenty of Italian daddies I've known over the years - "Do as I say, not as I do." Catholic when convenient - at ethnic parades. Mysogenistic to make himself king of the castle, "I know what's best for you, no room for debate." He's a disgrace.

I don't care if you cheat on your wife, marry your cousin or have an intern on her knees in the Oval Office - just don't act like you have a lock on "values" and "morals" and dictate those to the country.

for those under 35 who are not married or got a divorce from a starter marriage. I think it is plain that women over 35-40 who are single/divorced/gay AND childless are invisible to pollsters and candidates. Cause god forbid a woman over 35 think about anything that doesn't involve childrearing issues.

"single" women as defined by me (and most likely the pollsters) do not vote because we know that the politicians don't care- about us or frankly anyone else, except their lobbyists. The ones to the far right are no help on contraception and reproductive rights, not to mention their suffocating "moral values". The ones on the left, which is hardly left, would rather not state their stances on this too loudly either.

Not that these are the only issues of importance to us singletons. But that is what they see. And while single women of color or who identify as lesbian have a built-in community to draw from - and to be pandered to by politicians, straight single white women are no one to these guys (and Hillary). Because we are not a niche or a specific special interest group, there's no foothold for them.

I do vote. So stick it pollsters!

Why is the forum for the RU-486 topic closed?

I agree with all who said, "huh, there's a father?!?" What about your marriage? Or do we get a bitter follow-up letter about how i gave my kids this experience, they're ungrateful and now the husband is banging the neighbor?

I also agree that salon has gotten way too into affluenza naval gazing. I recognize that everyone's problems are their own and thus important (to them), but this trend is turning off a LOT of readers, myself included. Not to mention that the coverage women get in salon is more about mommy issues.

Following Huckabee's train of thought and making this country into "God's laws" (however that may be defined is another argument) what are the rest of us supposed to do? What about the religious freedom - or freedom from religion-- we are guaranteed?

Where is the place for the Jews, Hindus, atheitsts, agnostics, Muslims and Buddhists in this country? I just don't get how anyone can spew this stuff in the diverse society we have today. And to think, our country was founded by people who wanted to get away from this kind of intolerance.

I am really, very, extremely not into the use of the word "bitch" even when it is used in some faux-empowering sense, like the title of this book. It's just tacky.

I thought it was something along the lines of us sacrificing Bill Kristol...maybe in a volcano, to appease the electoral gods, or perhaps on some kind of pyre as it floats out to sea.

what a disappointment to realize I was wrong. i f**king hate that guy and the damage that that @sshole has done to our country is incalculable.