should be "adequate number of voting machines"....

the word "amount" is used for uncountable nouns.

...why each and every sex story is automatically relegated to what is ostensibly the women's issue section. In what way is this shit a women's concern?

Also, weird that you're favorite (esp. as a feminist) come-on should be anything to do with "let's make a baby". For God's sake when having casual sex with total strangers, let's leave conception and children out of it.

Worst. Broadsheet. Entry. Ever.

I'll be in Dubai, where I went to try to get a halfway decent job with healthcare. I left exactly two weeks before the banks went down the tubes in a big, big way. I feel like I narrowly escaped a burning house.

Would love to come back when the country is prosperous and liveable again, though.

Go Obama!

These two totally self absorbed idiots need to lose their jobs and struggle for survival for a good long time until they get their priorities in order. What spoiled, awful, egotistical assholes. Both of you. Really. I feel sorry for your one kid, and hope you two immature fools aren't planning to have another one.

Come up for air for a second. Just for a second, pull your heads out of your asses and look around. There's a big world all around you, there's a lot going on this world and guess what--none of it is about you and none of it gives a fucking shit about you. That's the truth. Get some perspective for the love of God.

Then take a deep breath and get on with life and pay some attention to your baby. If you want to have virtual affairs online, then have them. Have real affairs if you want, or get divorced, or stay married, trust each other, or don't trust each other. Who cares? Nobody, and it's totally not important. Just decide how you want to raise your kid, and do that, and cut the drama queen business.

SHEESH.

I'm usually one of the ones of forked and noxious tongue and I just wanted to say, thanks for coming on and addressing us personally.

In spite of my noxious steaming cynicism, I ended up getting Goodnight Moon when I had a little girl and of course ended up reading it about 2,357 times over the next couple of years, over and over before bedtime. It will always be special to me, especially now that my baby is more interested in getting made up and dressed to go out in the evening than in being held in my lap and read to before going to sleep.

Dammit, now I'm crying. Jeez!

and it's not harrassment. Dear God. If saying anything negative about Sarah Palin becomes legally actionable harrassment then what have we become? Stalinist Russia, that's right.

The prank may not be news--the comedians have done this to several leaders, but I've never heard of them until now--what's news is that Sarah is 1)apparently too dense/arrogant to realize that she's being made fun of, and 2)apparently too stupid to know who the prime minister of Canada is, or anything else. This is news, whether you like it or not.

Granted, Sarah Palin is probably not stupider than George Bush. But the fact that George Bush's stupidity and incompetence were so grossly overlooked by the media and almost half the population has cost this country dearly. Should we continue to overlook a massive lack of qualifications in any candidate?

Only a certain segment of very blindly partisan, religiously ideological Republicans are still willing to do so. Christopher, I guess you ar one of them.

Two things that stood out at me:

1. She knows nothing. The only moment during which she stops parroting talking points is when she comments that the French president's wife is soooo beautiful. That's all she knows: that Carla Bruni is hot. She is fixated on beauty standards and not policy--she really is a Barbie. Except when:

2. She tried to clarify, asking in a very sharp tone of voice, what the call letters of the radio station were. She here demonstrates the first glimmerings of a kind of perverse intelligence. She knows what call letters for radio stations are and she wants to trace the call to its home station and suppress the "interview". This is her first instict. You can count on it.

She is one scary piece of work. How did they FIND her?

Bristol probably would not have gotten pregnant twice so quickly, never underestimate the desperation of a teenager trying to escape a weird, domineering home (you know, the kind where they would take your handicapped baby away from you and raise it, claiming it was your mother's).

Sarah Palin reminds me a great deal of my toxic, evil mother, and my sister got engaged at age 14 and has often confessed to me that she married to get out of the house. Thankfully, her teenage marriage turned out fine (kinda, I guess, in terms of: she's still married to the guy). Bristol is probably doing all within her power to marry Levi and get away from the indentured servitude of her twisted home. And all that is within her power is to get pregnant again!

Of course she'll just go on to create a twisted home of her own, but not much anyone can do about that.