So you're not a leftwinger. Whatever else you are, you are an antisemite. At least be honest about it.

Being an antisemitic leftwinger, which is exactly what you are, is no better than being an antisemitic rightwinger.

Since major cities are so expensive to live in, many new immigrants to this country choose to live in the suburbs, and it is there that you will find restaurants that offer very good meals at very good prices. What they usually lack is a fancy environment. The tables are plain, the lighting is plain, and if the walls are freshly painted and have a few posters on them, you're in luck. But what you lose in a drab setting, you gain in good food at low prices.

Cooking from scratch is the cheapest and best way to eat, but for those times you want to dine out, skip the TGI Friday-style feeding troughs and check out the nearby "ethnic" restaurants.

Please remove eco's headline. His/her letter is okay, but the headline is truly repulsive.

"But the fact that she sends some many people running for the hills makes me like her."

So does Dracula, but I wouldn't want him to be President, either.

"Also, this is no big deal to me. I don't mind socialized healthcare, but I wouldn't care if it never materialized, either. I will be glad to use it, if available, but am perfectly capable of paying my own way. I don't need a subsidy; indeed it is my productivity Obama hopes to harness to subsidize others."

You are a fortunate man, Natty-J. Unlike everyone else, you will never lose your job, you will never be financially devastated, and you will never incur a crippling disease or injury. Bad things will never, ever happen to you, and that's all that matters. As for other people: who cares?

For the rest of us, though, these things are all real possibilities, which is why we need universal healthcare.

"For those who believed in his lies, just stopping looking for a politician to solve your problems and you'll be less frustrated and better able to resolve them."

Pull yourself by your own health insurance bootstraps? Ignore the fact that we have a national government that is in a much better position to provide for the health insurance needs of this complex nation? I suppose you stand ready to pave your own highways, too.

"Does that mean you may be "obsessed" with the "obsessing"? Where's that coming from?"

The answer is: a very dark place.

Maybe President Obama had a personal desire and interest in going to Buchenwald, given his uncle's history. And maybe when things like Saggy are running around denying what happened, it is right and proper for an American President to remind people that it really did happen, so that it does not happen again.

Crawl back under your rock.

"Sleestack was apparently a cousin of the reptile-man that Captain Kirk fought in that episode of "Star Trek" where he has to duel another being to entertain an advanced race as they watch from some remote location."

You're talking about "Arena," where Captain Kirk fought the Gorn captain. The motive of the Metrons, the advanced race that organized this fight, was to once and for all resolve the dispute between the Federation and the Gorn, a dispute that they found intolerable. It was not done for their entertainment.

Nick44 out!

You approve of those tactics.

"Now try to imagine whether or not you could do this. Imagine what type of person could."

Someone possessed of great compassion and courage and committed to protecting women's health, that's who.

He and everyone else here who are mocking and defending this murder are terrorist sympathizers.

A wretched sentiment. I look forward to celebrating full equality for gays and lesbians in my lifetime, and I have no doubt that it will happen.

Unfortunately, I will not live to see the end of ignorance held out as a virtue.

This nomination has loosened the final screws holding together what remained of the Right's rationality. Reading these letters is like listening to the rants of a lunatic who has gotten his hands on a bullhorn.

Stadiums used to be named after teams (Yankee Stadium) or noteworthy local people (Shea Stadium). Now they're all named after some cold-blooded corporation. Who in their right mind would spend $100 to go sit in the bleachers of "International Widgets Corporation Field"?

Thanks, but I'll watch the game on TV.

This was a disappointing loss, but don't give up. The history of social justice is replete with disappointing losses followed by joyful victories.

Noam Chomsky described Reagan very well: "...that savage murderer and torturer Ronald Reagan, who blissfully described himself as the leader of a 'shining city on the hill,' while orchestrating some of the more ghastly crimes of his years in office, notoriously in Central America but elsewhere as well."

Ask the poor of Central America, or Africa, what they think of Ronald Reagan. See if they find that time has "redeemed" him.

I'm fine with Salon deleting the most abusive posts. This is a private business, not a public institution, so Salon can do whatever it wants.

That leaves the letters from writers who are consistently obnoxious. I know it bothers people, but keep in mind that as with the real world, sooner or later a person's reputation precedes them. Regular readers will figure out who is just an insult troll, and disregard what they have to say.

It's not pleasant to be insulted in Salon's letter pages, but rest assured, insult trolls are not taken seriously by the rest of us.