Man, you're on the hit parade! Palin: she's very dumb.

Other nuggets of unfortifying liberal truth: Bush is dumb. The polar icecaps are melting. Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot. None of these statements bring me to any higher understanding of the world around me. They just keep us, the readers, chasing our tails. And now we can pat ourselves on our own backs because of how we are none of those people.

If this were the Apollo Theater I'd throw a shoe at you.

The question tells us more about ourselves than it does about Michael Vick. People have sadly come to believe that their opinion is what counts in this world, that the world exists for us to judge it. (Safely, and from the remove of an internet connection and monitor.)

May I suggest that what counts is actually the welfare of the animals he abused, and the ones he might have? Maybe he has made amends for that, and maybe he hasn't. Either way, my opinion on this matter is not important, except that it might have, however obliquely, contributed to the above-mentioned.

Well said.

1.) Anybody who treats their friend like a fashion accessory is probably not worth hanging around with, regardless of what title we bestow on them.

2.) That doesn't mean that you can throw out your gay allies just because the times, they have a-changed.

3.) Considering the offensive title, the X over Debra Messer's face, and the generally condescending tone that this article adopts, I'd say it's probably for the best that you are over fag hags. I sure sure as shit hope the fag hags in your life are over you. Or really any friends, considering that you believe they can outlive their "use."

4.) Fortunately, you don't speak for all gay men. Anybody with a brain in their head is aware that the big battles of the rights movement are yet to come, and we need all the help we can get, gay and straight. And an article like this just sets us back.

"DOSE" instead of "DOES."

It's a teeny tiny article, so I'm not sure how that one slipped past you.

I like this lady, particularly the 5 seconds of funky chicken dancin' right there at the end. More Sarah Haskins!

Don't hang out with Steve Harvey, or anybody else who thinks the genders can't mix.

In all seriousness, I do believe that it is this sort of backwards thinking that is keeping women down, and keeping everyone stuck in rigid gender roles. We want equality for gays and the transgendered? Then we have to reach across gender divides and learn to get along, not just on the occasions when hets want to marry.

I mean, in that way that a hostile Salon commenter can love a civil rights blogger. Strictly platonic. But still.

My exboyfriend, he has an iPhone. When the relationship started going sour suddenly half his phonecalls went randomly to voicemail. I would call, and he would claim that his phone was on, but he didn't know why it went directly to voicemail. At the time I believed he was stonewalling me. But now, reading Fortini's article, I'm concerned that the Apple iPhone literally contributed to my breakup. I was under the impression that my boyfriend didn't want to talk to me, that he was hiding behind technology. Apparently not.

Thanks, Steve Jobs. May technology ruin YOUR serious, longterm relationship. I mean, if it hasn't already.

I read "My evil iPhone" last night. I laughed. I thought it was well written, and considering that I know a number of people with iPhones (including my ex, as I mentioned in a previous comment) I recognized Fortini's complaints: The dropped calls, hoarded txt messages, straight-to-voicemail problems. These all happened to all of them.

But the bile exhibited by the commenters is over the top considering that this was an article about a PHONE. It wasn't an article about the break-in at Watergate. So what? I enjoyed it. Others did, too.

So why are they taking the piece so badly? Could it be, as others have suggested, that they have come to expect crappy performance in their iProducts? Or could it be that, yet again, a female journalist on Salon is getting hate mail merely because she voiced her opinion, and about sacred technology, no less, which is not the domain of GIRLS? I suspect it's a little bit of both. There is a widely expressed belief that the opinion of a woman regarding technology is irrelevant. We don't know what we're talking about. But I wouldn't dismiss her experience so quickly.

You know, if you pay ungodly amounts of money for your designer product to work, it should work. Period.

Or perhaps there is a middle-ground response. Perhaps many of the commenters are simply reconciled to using a product that screws up all the time. Or perhaps they don't fully use all the functions that Fortini uses it for, and have therefore never run into all her problems. Maybe the name recognition and thrill of new technology means more to them than consistent service. That's fine. But don't be babies about it. If other people want to receive ALL their emails in a timely manner, that doesn't make them whiny. She has a job, her career relies on the dependability of the tools she uses. She's not asking too much.

Come to think of it, I've had similar experiences when dealing with my Macbook Pro, which I am typing on now. It hasn't changed my life. I don't think it's a perfect product. In fact, I've come to think of Apple Products as manipulative and controlling. They're made for users who don't like to think too much about the software they use. They'd rather the software do the thinking for them. And yet I seem to spend much more time covering basic tasks. Interesting.