You haters make me sick. Why don't you all take a time machine back to Nazi Germany, since you clearly don't value human life.

he did an awesome job as the criminal mastermind "Music Meister" in the new version of Batman - I think my kids watched that episode maybe a dozen times, and they know the lines by heart

geez Cary, sometimes your advice is so weird and off-key that I stop reading your column for a long time, and then sometimes it's so spot-on and brilliant that I wonder why I ever stopped reading you!

I worked as a secretary in a couple of law firms that defended hospital insurers and doctors. Most of the lawsuits were so stupid that I wondered how they got this far. When someone is morbidly obese, diabetic, and has high blood pressure and won't take their meds, they die, big surprise. When a doctor heroically saved a limb but forgot to remove a sponge, well, that's not as bad as losing your leg now, is it? But lots of people just want the money so they don't have to work anymore. There were so many people who were trying to blame an entire life of unhealthy living on this one incident where a doctor tried but couldn't help them or did make a mistake but it wouldn't have been a big deal if the patient hadn't had all those complicating factors.

"Finding Nemo" is way too long and doesn't really do the coming-of-age journey like a real rite of passage story. Just lots of stupid, borderline sarcastic humor and way too many "they just barely got away" again moments. My kids were bored. On the other hand, they absolutely loved Miyazaki's films for a few years, and watched them over and over again.

Any community that is under siege from the majority population for 2,000 years will be protective of their own and enjoy making a little fun of their tormentors, so what? I can't wait to see the Coen brothers' new film.

This season, they've spent way too much time on the Drapers, who are icy and distant and are breeding resentful children. Who cares about them? And the John Deere was jumping the shark.

Yes, Germany was planning to exterminate Slavs after they were done with the Jews. They were already using young Russian and Polish women as housemaid slaves during the war. Even in the Middle Ages, when most of Europe was pillaging and raping, no one wanted to become a prisoner of the Germans, because they have always been known as the worst captors.

Cary's answer to this grad's problems fell waaay short of the mark. First of all, no way does the world want to take care of us white educated folks. Been there, no one cares. People who are uneducated hold it against you, while other educated people don't see why you aren't milking your degree for cold, hard cash. Secondly, his parents sound like mine in that they are helping him be helpless, probably so they can exert some control over their little Harvard puppet. This gives them an ego boost. My parents were happy to live in a fantasy world of intellectual ivory towers but gave us no practical real life experience or encouraged us to have any ambitions whatsoever, because that way we could stay their little kids forever. This grad just needs to fly the coop and start living life, there is no substitute and don't expect people to hold the door open for you or invite you to dinner. P.S. You have to love yourself.

My mother also moved here from another country and never made any real American friends. There, her friends were like sisters. Here, it was all fakey smiles and "what does your husband do?" small talk. I moved to Chicago about four years ago and I've hardly made any friends here, either. I have kids, but I work full-time, and the women at work tend to be gossipy backstabbers. Not having any extended family, I wish my husband and I did have a social circle not just for ourselves but for our kids as well. I do volunteer at the museum, but it definitely takes a long time to get to know people when you only see them on the occasional weekend. I find other moms to be very standoffish; it's like "I already know all the people I will ever need to know."

So he used you. End of story.

some of us are really bad at accepting compliments - I'd really rather not get any! They make me feel foolish.

before it gets boring? wow, I'm feeling SO liberated right about now . . . guess these stories fit right in with the "25 Things" narcissism going around on Facebook.

I agree with Bob, the anger issue is the sticker here. I don't have a problem with rotund women; my mother was fat for the second half of her life and she was soft and delightful to hug, very maternal. So when I talk to overweight women like I don't care what their size is and they respond like they're angry and mistrustful of all people, I know the problem is theirs.

These fools shouldn't become parents to anyone. They shouldn't have children, period. They are selfish and narcissistic and lazy, letting the nanny do all the rearing, and mooching off grandma to support their lifestyle. That kid will be better off without them, but she sounds like a mess.

First of all, isn't there a mediator for Salon postings? Most of these are crap. Anyway, we should all read at least one Holocaust memoir in our lifetimes, a real one. Nothing else compares. There is an interesting psychology at work behind these fibs - remember the other guy who said he was a child in the camps and was later exposed as a liar? Strange that people would want to make up stories about wartime, when the truth was so much stranger than fiction.