Dear Cary: You want this woman to act like a bloody saint while a troubled teenager has taken over her house and her husband.

Speaking of her husband, he seems to have thrown his wife over and succumbed to the siren song of this young Lolita. He has behaved badly, but you've skimmed over his behavior completely.

My advice to her would be to leave. Her husband has turned on her and neither he nor Lolita seem to want her around.

So leave, LW. Leave the two of them to their own devices. They'll probably wind up having a sexual relationship, and who knows where that'll end up.

Not your problem. The two of them have turned on you and made your life a living hell. So dump them. Start anew somewhere. Take what resources you have, find someone to stay with temporarily, and start a new life.

There's a fine line between being a saint and a punching bag; you've crossed that line. Get out while you can, and let the two of them have the relationship they so obviously want.

Every month Camille Paglia weighs in with her views on politics, the arts and life.

And every month, my Salon confreres pile on with outraged letters:

• Why does Salon keep this idiot on the staff?
• Is it possible for anyone to be this stupid?
• After wading through Paglia's turgid prose, I felt like I needed a shower...and a lobotomy.
• I'm canceling my subscription to Salon.

Every month, Paglia's column generates more responses than just about any other Salon feature. You guys say you hate her, and want Salon to dump her. But let's be honest....if there were no Camille Paglia to kick around, you'd feel a void in your lives, wouldn't you?

Yeah, she's a rube from West Nosebleed, Alaska. But Sarah Palin is hardly a dummy.

I agree that she's totally ignorant of foreign affairs. She's also ignorant of domestic affairs. But that's not because she's stupid; it's because heretofore her entire political career has been confined to the backwoods state of Alaska.

Watch for Sarah Palin to be the GOP front-runner in 2012. And it'll be a re-tooled and re-schooled Sarah Palin, spouting foreign policy wonkiness and a new sophistication.

The question for the GOP will be whether they want to continue to field candidates who represent the same paleolithic, Christian right viewpoint as George W. Bush.

Yes, when Peggy Noonan bails on you, you know your party is headed for a massive shellacking at the polls.

As for Sarah Palin, she will be the front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2012. Aside from her politics (which are abominable), she has a lot going for her.

She's, bright, good-looking and charismatic. That's enough to secure her the nomination in 2012.

But there's no danger of her actually getting elected. An incumbent President Obama will turn her into road kill.

• Jerelle's was an absolute disaster....ugly, overdone, trashy looking. After doing good work just about all season, he deserved to get cut for that wedding dress alone.
• Korto's wedding dress was great. If she had stopped at the top of the bosom line, it would have been beautiful. The crappy-looking strap stuff she put on top ruined it.
• Kenley had a good dress. It was somewhat spoiled by the dumb looking pixie hat she added.
• Leanne's dress was breathtakingly beautiful....poetry in motion. And the white of the dress against the model's dark skin was stunning. I believe this dress was one of the reasons she won the competition.

You're right. My Nazi reference to Heidi was lame and in poor taste.

Mea culpa.....

After sneering at Project Runway for years, I finally watched it this season, as was instantly hooked.

Although I am a guy who knows nothing.....nothing.....about fashion design (2 strikes against me?), there were three things that drew me in:

• The personalities. Suede....Stella the biker chick......Kenley the brat.....Leanne, the cute, nerdy girl.....
• The judges. They knew what they were talking about. (How can you not love Tim Gunn?) And I looked forward to hearing Heidi Klum say, in her vaguely Nazi German accent: You're out."

  The designs. The challenges were fascinating.....design something out of household materials...design for a bunch of drag queens....I learned so much about fashion design from this show without even knowing I was learning it.

And, by the way, Leanne's line had coherence and unity, but Kenley should have won. That girl is a genius with color.

I'm hooked. I'll be there next season.....

I agree with Camille that Sarah Palin is formidable. She is the most exciting and charismatic of the four presidential and VP candidates.

Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for the rest of the country, she is on the wrong side of all the issues. But it's very impressive to see how she has electrified the conservative base of the GOP.

Sarah Palin will be a formidable candidate for president in 2012, when she doesn't have the baggage of John McCain and the failed Bush presidency to carry around.

But fortunately for the country, she'll be up against an incumbent President Barack Obama. And even though she'll provide electricity and excitement and pizzazz, Barack will kick her ass.