Nobody that matters will pay the price. Unfortunately, these things are setup so that insignificant subordinates take the fall. Generals in the military are generals because they are intelligent. They rig the system so that their chain of command is their buffer. Do you really think some low-wage-earning enlisted person in the Army is going to conduct themselves the way they did at Abu Ghraib on their own? There is never a direct way to connect the dots from bottom to top. That's not a deficiency in investigative technique; that's innocence by design.

Bush, Rove, Libby, et. al., will suffer no consequences. However, the guy who gets all those guys coffee in the morning is going to have a very bad week next week.

"Um, yea, I've heard of you guys...in fact, I think we named a spy plane after your band."

Sonny, I thought you died in that skiiing accident some years ago?!

Wouldn't it be just slightly ironic if the next terrorist plot involved a husband and wife team in which the husband acts erratically and runs towards the cockpit, the air marshals take notice and immediately begin their protective countermeasure procedures, and the wife, in an act of desparation, screams loudly that her husband is bipolar and is acting the way he is because he hasn't taken his medication?

The air marshals, after hearing the pleas of mercy from the exasperated wife, along with all 98 passengers onboard, are torn to shreds by the 6.5 lbs. of Semtex the husband detonates in his suitcase bomb, the extra time bought by his wife enough to allow him to press the button.

Given the sequence of events, these air marshals were justified in their actions. Why didn't the wife make sure her husband was indeed medicated if she knew he was bipolar? Given the possibility that someone in his condition could act the way he did, isn't the responsibility on her to make sure he is in a mentally stable state of mind before flying on an airplane in today's political climate?

She should be ashamed for allowing the burden of a life and death split-second decision to fall on the shoulders of the air marshals charged to protect the safety of all onboard. She failed, and, unfortunately, paid dearly for her oversight.

My wife is diabetic and I have never let her go anywhere without the proper medication at our disposal.

The presence of "King King" on your list reinforces the delusion currently plaguing Hollywood that if you can't come up with something brilliant and original, make a brilliant copy of something original.

It looked good. It was wisely directed. It had cool CGI effects, which is like having a color film these days. But it's a copy. You could have done the Salon moviewatching public a service by at least swapping "King Kong" with "Good Night and Good Luck."

Instead, Hollywood remains a delusional copy of what it once was. And please don't let them catch wind of my friend's 21st century re-write of "Citizen Kane." With special effects, mind you.

These high-powered politicos scare the begeezus out of me. As I sit tied down to my computer in my windowless cubicle at another anonymous Silicon Valley entity working my ass off to squeeze off monthly payments for my car, rent, broadband Internet and the occasional Outback sojourn, these hypocritical crooks, with their Ivy League candor and quasi-pious reverence that portends of godliness, make off with millions of dollars, live aflluent lives and cavort effortlessly on the tax dole that I shell out 26 times per year from a paycheck that's already small to begin with.

And the saddest part is? There is nothing I can do about it.

Yea, I can sit here and write off letters to Salon's editorial staff so I can gain about 7 seconds of fame (15 is way too much to ask for) by having my cute little diatribic letter published for all to see. It will quickly die a virtual death as I sit in the same desk job, as the purveyors of all that is supposedly Godly in Washington walk free due to some other crony sitting in a position of judicial power gives them a lenient sentence, probably picking up highway litter for 2 weeks or a $23 fine--equal to the amount of required by the fingerprinter to book the felon.

Once again, I can fire off all the letters to all my representatives telling them how incensed I am at the actions of their peers, from which I receive some pretty livid , albeit canned, e-mail responses telling me that they "care about your letter regarding " when in fact my letter had to do with the scandal involving Abramoff.

But the song remains the same--they get richer, I get poorer, and there's not much I can do about it.

If anyone begs to differ, I'd be glad to offer for anyone to pay my rent, car payment, utility payment, etc., so I can setup shop in Washington DC and REALLY something about it.

Because as soon as this letter is done and the collective American memory becomes blurred, the felons will keep on feloning and we'll keep on slaving away.