but I am terribly happy to see Kucinich bumped out of the debate. He's been nothing but an embarrassment lately, even by Kucinich standards, what with demanding a recount in New Hampshire and now this. I'm pulling for an Edwards rebound, but I will be watching Nevada, South Carolina, and the polls before I decide who to vote for on Super Tuesday.

In the end, I'd welcome anyone at that table with open arms over the man we've had in the Oval Office for the past seven-odd years.

but give credit its due. Al-Sahab has been doing a pretty decent job at getting the word out, bin Laden is safe and sound, his beard dyed black, and continues to issue forth timely messages to the world at large. Doesn't make the USA look too great, but that's the state of things. Maybe if it were not for our distracting little adventure in Iraq things would have turned out differently.

And I have to agree with previous poster, Zawahiri would be a big improvement over Cary Tennis's dreck any day of the week. A typical Tennis column drones on longer than any jihadi rant I've encountered, and is much less focused. I say hire him.

Some random earthling has no legal basis for "claiming" a plot on the moon, even if there were no treaty. If there were no treaty, then there might be a basis for the USA visit and stake a claim to the moon and then establish a framework for parceling it out to private citizens (even by homesteading), but even if it did that, Mr. Hope's stupid private registry would still have no legal effect. But as it stands, there is a treaty, and no country and no citizen will get very far exercising actual ownership rights. It's all well and good when you just have a slip of paper, just try doing something with it.

This is no different than any number of other stupid frauds like the "Name a Star" registries. Obviously this guy is shrewd; he's making money hand-over-fist selling a worthless, free "product." That doesn't make it legitimate.

You've never "personally" owned a software package. The only thing you had was a license. Web-delivered services simply shift most of the nitty-gritty maintenance of the software from client to server. You are paying for the software either way, the fees just may be structured differently and in one case it's not being delivered, it's just being presented.

I doubt you'll wade this far into the letters section, but I am surprised you wrote this column in the first place, anyway.

Kucinich, Ron Paul, Chris Dodd, those are not serious contenders, whatever their relative merits, platforms, or experiences. I'm not faulting you for snubbing them. But Salon, playing along with the rest of the media, in general wrote off John Edwards very, very early in this game.

Apparently he wasn't "sexy" enough. I'm not sure why--after all he has been noted as sexy in the literal sense; perhaps he lacks that female/minority angle, but he had 1. A lot of money 2. Prior experience as a running mate in 2004, 3. Experience to match either of Clinton/Obama, 4. Strong support in the polls, 5. A presidential temperament and demeanor, (cf. Kucinich, or even Howard Dean, for that matter), 6. A well-developed, early-released, and sophisticated platform that is more progressive than either of Clinton's or Obama's, and 7. Strong support in the polls.

Now, barring a miracle in Florida, you and the rest of the Salon staff can sit back and say he is no longer a "serious" candidate (a nicely self-fulfilling prophecy on the part of the media as a whole), but he has gotten the short stick. Nice work, Salon.

Unlike the Clinton/Obama groupies, I don't fault you personally for touting any candidate or much less any unfair criticism. I think you are entitled to the opinions you have voiced, and I admire you for taking the time to back them up.

Rebecca Traister, on the other hand, posted a disgusting smear blog with a photograph of Edwards next to an orc, for an innocuous remark he in response to a question about Clinton, that wasn't even really about her--talk about overreaction! SHE is the one who should be writing a column to explain herself. I don't think she will, because I don't think she can, and it doesn't look like she has any intention of apologizing.

Just in time to run a post-mortem on his campaign. Too little, too late.

I have to say the perspective from NYC on this man is not pretty. The sheer hatred of the man is a real unifying force in New York. I think he is a lot more popular upstate than he is in the five boroughs. The attitude here is that the idea of him as "America's Mayor" is a farce, that nobody likes him in his own city, and that people in Florida have no idea who the man is, so why the heck is he betting his whole campaign on them? Obviously, it didn't work for this arrogant man outside of his home turf.

I am distracted from reading this article because every apostrophe comes out as ’--an A with a circumflex, a euro sign, and a trademark. Please don't just paste from Word and submit; do a sanity check on the output.

The above words were clearly written by someone without a sense of industry perspective. Um, how about IBM?

Yes, the industry has changed since the days when Microsoft had programmers who worked in their offices coding in the nude, and maybe IBM is as edgy as Microsoft in some ways, what with their Linux adoption and whatnot. But I think the premise of this article is flawed. Ever been on the Yahoo campus? Then what is the basis behind these judgments?

Just because it has a silly early '90s dot-com name doesn't mean the culture is so different.