Didjman, methinks mommy was just trying to puff up sonny boy to make him sound all macho and un-nannyish. She should have checked her calendar first.

I also love the inference by both Salon and Mommie Dearest that the rumor about him and Britney couldn't possibly be true because he is involved in a long-term relationship with a beautiful woman.

Yeah. So was Brad Pitt.

It is really not too difficult to see why Pitt left Aniston for Jolie. Just look at the two women side-by-side.

I'd sure hate to be your girlfriend/wife. Is that how you decide whether or not to stay with your partner... if someone else is prettier? You put her side-by-side with the other woman, and leave yours if she's not as gorgeous? Geez. Talk about "not a lot of depth"! I really hope what you said just came out wrong.

Anyway, all I meant is that being involved with a beautiful woman doesn't guarantee that a guy isn't going to stray. They're making out in this item like "so much for that rumor... he couldn't be with Britney, he's in a relationship with a bombshell!" (Oh, now that you put it that way, of course he's not bonking Britney.)

I can't believe I'm even discussing this.

Yes, we women who enjoy the World Cup do so because we like either hosting gatherings or watching men in shorts.

This is so offensive, insulting, stereotypical and sexist, it could have been written by a man. Newsflash... some of us actually enjoy and know the game more than our male counterparts. Why didn't you list THAT as a possibility?

"Big Brother" starts soon, and this season will be filled with all the irritating losers and ripped-off suckers from years past. I haven't seen the full "guest list" yet, but the idea of Diane and Nicole in the same house rocks my world. Guys, cover your teeny weenies! Those chicks are bound to be on the warpath!

How can someone who appears to hate women as much as Ann Coulter does be considered a "feminist"? It's not so much her eerily masculine appearance that makes me question her original gender as the sick vitriol she seems to specially spew in the direction of women.

Thank you, Tracker and Sandra M. You just made my response to this letter a whole lot easier. "Poor me, I'm too special and unique for this world!" Ugh. Where does Cary *find* these people?!

I'm not angry, I don't lead a "perfectly balanced life" and I have no problems dealing with others' thoughts and feelings. As a matter of fact, I also don't fit into any boxes or have a particular "place." But you know what? I don't dwell on it, whine about it, or write self-serving, self-pitying "please tell me how special I am" letters to advice columns about it. As a grownup who has been on this earth over 40 years, I have learned that it's quite possible to live your life without obsessively comparing yourself to everyone around you, either positively or negatively.

All this crap about "boxes" is just the LW's way of saying "can't anyone see how unique I am?" He is, actually, quite proud of NOT fitting into any of the "boxes." So basically he wants to stand out, and not fit into "boring" boxes. He wants to fit into the "special and unique" box. There are plenty of those boxes, but the people in them are insufferably hip and self-absorbed. Like the LW, it seems.

And I seriously doubt his wife said he was "too goofy and abstract to be a real husband." I doubt most of this story, actually. Plenty of smart people manage to hold jobs without being told to "go and play with their intellectual buddies." The LW simply wants to be stroked; to have people admire and compliment his uniqueness, intellect, youthful appearance, goofiness, abstractness... and to tell him he's way too smart, special, attractive, goofy and abstract to EVER be put in a box, like regular people.

Frankly, I think he's full of it. And himself. Not a good combination.

I am certainly not the most prolific or lengthy contributor to these pages. So can that argument, OK? At least I have the balls not to hide behind "Anonymous."

You're trying your best to make it seem as if I am somehow proclaiming myself queen of the world simply because I disagree with you, which is more than a little extreme on your part. Take it down a notch or two. I am sorry if you are also a lost little puppy looking for your own special box, and I (and other contributors here, no doubt) have gotten your warm, dry nose out of joint.

We're all screwed up, whether we fit in "boxes" or not. We're just not all as self-absorbed and irritatingly melodramatic as the LW. And we all--including you--contribute opinions here. To insult someone for doing exactly what you do, albeit with an opposite viewpoint, is, well, kinda silly.

And while I don't necessarily think the whole letter is fake, I think many of the sentiments in it are exaggerated and/or fantasy. That's what makes it annoying enough to have no patience for its prattling content. This column has seen a sharp uptick in "oh come ON!" letters lately, enough to wonder if it's run its course.

I was thinking the same thing... holding my breath, waiting for the inevitable appearance of the dreaded Scooter, who would no doubt helpfully advise me that a curveball is thrown reeeeeeeeeal slowwwwwwwww...

Thankfully, the inevitable did not occur. But the puerile circus that is Fox cartoonish baseball coverage was nauseatingly unbearable nonetheless. They should not be in the sports business any more than they should be in the news business. They make a mockery of both.