work less than men. About 8 million fewer women work at all than do men. Among those who say they work full-time, women work about 1 hour per day less than men. So this report is no surprise.

I think Americans work way too much. I think we are consumed with work, that we tend to demean non-work as frivolous. I'm glad women work less than men. Maybe men will notice and change their ways. Stay home and read a book for a change. You'll be smarter and healthier if you do.

Well, I'm not so sure it's just a matter of my liking and trusting my "type." I think that, objectively speaking, one's young years are a time to take risks, to find out first hand what works and what doesn't, what you want out of life and what you don't. There's a fair amount of psychology to back me up on that, so it's not just my opinion. And those people who engage in that behavior, I think, mature into more well-rounded adults. They've done that, they know its allures and they know the reality of it, so they're better qualified to judge that behavior in others. I think those who don't grow old before their time and can't have the perspective on the behavior described that others have.

A little boy of about 5 was about to board the school bus and turned and hugged a female aide. He was suspended for sexually harrassing the aide. His father thought that was pretty strange, as do I.

there are disciplines which, if followed, can lead to a transcendent experience. Those disciplines and experiences are chronicled in a vast array of books. What one notices about all of them is that the search for that transcendence is long and hard. It does not come easily and to some people it doesn't come at all despite years of trying.

So it's odd, to say the least, to hear Bush and others proclaim that in some relatively effortless way, and virtually overnight, they've "found Jesus." According to all reputable accounts and the facts of, for example, Buddhist teaching and meditation, Bush's "faith" is nothing but a comfortable (for him) illusion.

Keynes taught us how to use taxation and spending policies to solve the problem Marx described about capitalism - its tendency to overproduce. Ever since then, we've been taking money from the wealthy via the income tax and redistributing it downward via government spending. We do that, not because we like poor people, but because the poor spend essentially every dollar they have whereas the wealthy tend to save theirs. Therefore giving the poor and middle class more money increases the ability of an economy to consume what it produces, thereby avoiding the recessionary pressure of too many goods. In short, Keynesian economics is necessary to a healthy capitalist economy.

When we cut taxes on the wealthy, we tend to confound the above process. The growing gap between rich and poor is not only morally wrong, it's bad economics. We've known this for years, but for some reason the Republicans didn't get the message and of course Bush didn't listen in class that day, so...

As others have stated, you file a lawsuit, subpoena the site's records and find out the names of the posters. From there you can locate them easily. If they made slanderous/libelous/defamatory remarks about either of the plaintiffs by name or with such specificity that the individual plaintiff can be identified, it's actionable. The "encouraging rape" allegation I'm not so sure about. Simply posting those words on a blog doesn't look like grounds to sue to me absent the present ability to carry out the threat, but I could be wrong. Now what their damages are, I couldn't guess. I'd be hard pressed to make much of an argument on that. What have they actually lost? I mean who reads this stuff and takes it seriously?

I for one wish blog sites did more to police posters. There's so much that is designed solely to offend and is therefore utterly superfluous to any responsible discussion of issues. If you can't express yourself without libeling another person or encouraging violence against him/her, you don't have much to say. Deleting those posts wouldn't be much of a loss.

Here in Texas in 1983 we had a sheriff of San Jacinto County who did something similar (though not as severe) to waterboarding to extract confessions. Sheriff James C. "Humpy" Parker used to strap the suspect into a chair, tilt his head back, place a wet towel over his face and pour water down his nose and over his face. When busted, Parker was charged with (if memory serves me) federal civil rights violations, pled guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The press routinely called what he did "torture." I don't think it ever occurred to anyone that it wasn't.

San Jacinto County is the poorest county in Texas. It's in East Texas which means it's part of the Old South. For an accurate picture of the place, think of Mississippi in the 1920s.

It's odd that behavior that's far worse than what Parker did is now acceptable to these people when it wasn't in Texas in 1983.