• 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Kit: Join a church. Not necessarily for the religion, but if you're religiously inclined, so much the better.

Churches are very nice communities unto themselves and they provide a good support system of people to meet with, talk things over with, and do things with.

You may or may not meet eligible single men, but you will meet some nice people who'll provide many of the things a family provides, and they'll accept you for who you are.

If all that religiosity and Jesus stuff turns you off, the Unitarian Church is a good alternative. Those folks de-emphasize dogma and emphasize personal spirituality.

That's my advice. I wish you well and I appreciate you sharing your personal story.

Can I tell you, as one guy to another....

Stop being such a dickhead.

The author is as far from being a "schoolyard bully" as you are from being a sensitive human being.

No one "deserves" to be lonely.

You're a pretty talented poet.

There are millions of Americans who applauded the shoe-thrower. (I was one of them.)

He did what many of us would have liked to do.

You go, dude......

The Kennedys have always been about public service. They don't need to take bribes or kickbacks because they've got all that old money that Joe Kennedy made in his bootlegging days.

As for the experience thingy, forget it. We elect many of our senators and governors because they have name recognition. Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwartzenegger and George W. Bush are three examples of people who became candidates because they had name recognition.

Give the kid a shot. What've we got to lose? It's only the Senate. You can't screw that up too badly and she may turn out to be a really good one.