I'm interested to see the context of the quote, but why SHOULD Stewart and Colbert be full of respect for the MSM (and by extent, Dowd)? I mean, jeebus, they're COMEDIANS doing the MSM's JOB. Stewart has in fact practically BEGGED the MSM to do their job so he doesn't have to!

And I'm not getting paid! I should have volunteered to be a judge!

Because I've known men for whom this is true also. If their wives were carrying the health insurance and brought in more money, they were the ones hit harder by the divorce.

In Franklin County (in Columbus, OH). Clearly we had different types of voting machines than you did.

Ours involved cartridges that the poll workers kept, which were inserted and removed after each ballot cast to prepare the machine for the next voter. At the end of the day, the machines were shut down with a master cartridge which collected the information from the machines, and the tally was printed from the last machine to shut down.

We also had a little trouble with ID--luckily the Ohio Democratic party had given me a cheat sheet to help clarify what ID was acceptable, and once we'd sorted THAT out, it went well.

I got to man the book to help direct people to their proper polling place (because I was the one who figured out how it worked, and because it gave me something to do to be helpful).

The poll workers were excellent, the voters were patient, and I'd say, from my little corner of Ohio, things went really well.

I was there to observe and help if needed. SPECIFICALLY I was told to help the poll workers if I could. I did not do their jobs. I did help people find their correct polling place IF THE POLL WORKERS HAD ALREAD DETERMINED THEY WERE IN THE INCORRECT PLACE by 1) getting their address 2) looking it up in "the book", 3) locating their precinct 4) finding the voting location for the precinct. I did not ask their political affiliation, did not discuss politics. I was not there to be combative (in fact, I was specifically told that the ONLY people allowed to challenge voters are the poll workers themselves).

I did nothing illegal, and nothing not approved by the presiding judge.

And the poll workers where I went were EXCELLENT.

How do you leer at a beach? Or rather, WHY would you leer at a beach? Is that some sort of weirdo sexual aberration with which I am not familiar?

Ok, I was just amused.

Anyway, taking photos at the beach is, I am pretty sure, not illegal.

Being a smoking hot technical writer babe myself (and not above allowing tech guys to talk to my breasts if that's the only way I can get information), I was a little confused by the headline also!

Why is God spelled G-D like it was some sort of swear word? What am I missing?

I scanned, in hope, and there he was--Alan Rickman!

Maybe I'm just a ridiculously typical Salon-reader-type-chick, but most of your choices hit my spot. Could have added Viggo Mortenson, maybe, but I am NOT arguing.

Sane people avoid campus. Even while I was GOING to Ohio State, I avoided campus on that weekend. (And yeah, I graduated from OSU and I can spell--got a reasonably good education, doncha know--though most of the OSU grads I know will acknowledge that Michigan is a better school academically).

That said, EVERY blessed time some pop culture event that focuses a large part of the nation happens, SOME pseudo-intellectual starts ranting about "aren't there more important things in the world?" Yes, there are. But the people who weren't paying attention before aren't suddenly going to start paying attention now. They can't be SHAMED into paying attention. Good luck with that.

My parents have season tickets and are going to the game. Me, I'm going to grab a friend and see a movie as far from campus as possible.

Although the British are a nation of tea drinkers, Iced Tea (hold the Long Island) is a beverage quite unknown in the UK, but its adoption would go a long way towards reducing all kinds of violence, including rape. Maybe Ann Widdecombe has a point after all.

This is going to sound weird, but you have a real point here. I've been to the UK a few times for work, and there was genuinely nothing to drink except alcoholic drinks of one type or another, soda (as in pop, which I don't drink--diet or otherwise) and hot tea or coffee. Water is not routinely brought to the table (at least not in the restaurants I was in) and once you request it, it's still hard to get refills. And most places are not air-conditioned.

So it's hot, you're having trouble getting refills on your water, but the wine and beer keep showing up. Given that this is the experience of one person on a few trips to the UK--maybe more choices of non-alcoholic drinks would help?

I couldn't agree more with the additions to the list (and how did I forget to mention Don Cheadle and James Spader) so in the interests of equality or whatever, I'll add some women for the list you all surely have in the works...

Judy Davis (those lips! my god!)

Helen Mirren (obviously)

Tamara Tunie (the chick who plays the coroner on Law and Order SVU--she's just hot, and comes across as really smart)

Pam Grier (I don't care that those jerks at the men's magazines think she's shaped like a barrel, I think she looks INCREDIBLE)

Barbara Hershey's boyfriend!

Don't forget Kama Sutra, in which he is INCREDIBLY sexy and dissolute. What a guy.

Also Sami Frey about the time of "The Little Drummer Girl"