While I liked Cary's advice, you said two things that struck me especially.

One: "my guy just broke up with a woman who converted for him." Doesn't that tell you a couple of things about this guy? More than just "developing"?

Two: "I would really like to go on some exotic backpacking, soul-searching journey and find God so I can convert and be with this man." Why do you think that finding God means converting to Judaism? There are many other ways of finding God.

Canuckistan Bob, while reading these letters, I've been thinking the same thing: Let's start some chain emails about McCain. As you said, he clearly has early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, like Reagan did. (But we probably don't want to point that out, because of the widespread belief that Reagan was a great president.)

Also for the chain emails, the story about how McCain left his wife who waited faithfully for him during his long imprisonment in Viet Nam, after she was terribly disfigured in an auto accident. And then he married the "cunt" who's very pretty and so much younger than him, and also brought along a big pot of inherited wealth.

His flip-flops abound, to suit the political winds that blow.

What else?

Some dealers of live plants include detailed instructions on how to grow them.

http://www.entheology.org/links/Default.asp?CategoryID=29

Yes, I know it was supposed to be satire and supposed to be funny. But I thought it was stupid.

I have three sons, none of them gay, and they're all interested in how their homes are decorated. Recently I went for a visit to my youngest son and his family, and he and his wife had been talking about what style furniture they'd like to have, and realized that William Morris and the Arts and Crafts style was just what they like.

BTW, I've always had gay friends. However, I'm glad none of my sons is gay because I think life would be much more difficult for them.

Even DOS wasn't original. My first PC ran on CP/M (Computer Program/Microprocessor); DOS even used some of the same commands. Of course, all commands had to go direct to the OS, involving a complex system of codes. The biggest deal about DOS, at the time, was that it ran 16-bit programs, in contrast to only eight bits. Of course, that was a really big deal then. Also, DOS allowed the ability to run other programs, such as word processors. Nothing on a computer was graphic then.

tv, you castigated me for saying that gays have a more difficult life than straights. You say you take such joy in the week leading up to the Gay Pride Parade.

Maybe it's my age. I remember when the word "gay" was not used to describe homosexuals. And I remember the days of the Stonewall Riots. It wasn't until after that that the first Gay Pride Parade took place. I also remember when that hypocritical queen, J. Edgar Hoover, was leading the FBI to arrest "queers."

Or maybe it's not just my age. A couple of nights ago, I saw a show on PBS about some gay young men and a couple of lesbians "coming out" (a term that was never used when virtually all homosexuals were "in the closet") to their parents. All the parents eventually came to accept the sexual orientation of their children, but they all had a hard time of it. Some of them were kicked out of their families. And virtually all of the young gays had a difficult time accepting their own sexuality.

So if you never had any difficulty with your sexual orientation, you are blessed.

I also saw a film on PBS about Emile Norman, a phenomenal artist who also happens to be gay. http://www.emilenorman.com/ He and his partner started the arts colony at Big Sur, their home for most of their 30 years together. The film is mostly about his art, but it also mentions the trials and tribulations of homosexual men back in the day of Hoover's persecution, and then the Stonewall Riots.

I still don't think the article was funny.

Your comment, "you leftists changed the name from "global warming" to "climate change""

As I recall, the first time I heard the phrase "climate change," was in a speech by G.W. Bush. He just couldn't bring himself to say "global warming."

This law-breaking government and big business are in this together. I used to scoff at conspiracy theories, but not anymore. I've seen too much of them in action.

"Give it a rest. I can see you don't get out often. You have been bombing us with this telecom crap for 6 months now and, quite frankly, nobody cares. Even Obama doesn't care. And that ought to be enough to just drop it. Reminds me of Whitewater or WhatWater. I can't even recall what Whatwater was even about, only that it never ended and became a "big yawn". Your arguments are so obscure that the political establishment's eyes glaze over, not to mention the 99.5% of the voting public who have no understanding of the historical role of FISA and the Church Committee."

Nobody cares? Haven't you read any of these comments? No, Glen's arguments are not at all obscure. Whitewater was a big yawn because it wasn't pursued in depth. Anyway, even though it may have been illegal but profitable for the Clintons (I don't know enough about it to make any judgment), it didn't affect 99.5% of the voting public.

FISA does.

Just a fragment of your comment, "instead of Silicon Valley style entrepreneurs who know that success comes from changing the game, we have two oilmen at the helm who are devoted to the existing but-rapidly-becoming obsolete order of things." That is so excellent. Thank you for pointing it out.