Actually, Iconoclasts is a tv show where two iconoclastic individuals hang out together and share their perspective. She was paired with Cameron Sinclair, who founded Architects for Humanity. His belief is that good design has the potential to change the world, so he's based his nonprofit in Biloxi in order to help those individuals whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

If you see his ideas, it's really breathtaking: Green technology, Community building, public input. I don't know how successful they've been, but it was worth the TED Prize.

Anyhow, all those things considered, I expected C.D. to say something more than a mouthful of bland platitudes. At one point in the episode she got up onstage at a benefit and her message to the audience of thousands was, "CHANGE HAS TO START WITH YOURSELF!" The end.

So, yeah, I expected her to have a thought in her head, when apparently what she had was a P.R. stunt.

As usual there are a fistful of commenters whose sole purpose is to raise ire and incite. I liken them to frantic children trying to distract adults from a conversation. They wave their arms and scream until they are red in the face.

Mature adults do not pay attention to them. They do not let the children dictate the conversation.

It's bizarre behavior, since it would never occur to me to go to Fox News or Glenn Beck's site and incite a war. What could be the point? Are these trolls off their meds, or are they paid operatives? It doesn't really matter. I skip past their comments.

And it's unfortunate, because I don't doubt that there are conservatives who could give us an extended, thoughtful answer. We deserve better opponents than what we've been given. The gutter trash that appear on Salon to sink morale and sideline discussions, they're not even worth reading. They just boost our feeling that Republicans are a bunch of crazed, hysterical manbabies, much like their idol, Glenn Beck.

As usual, your assessment is dead on, Greenwald.

I think Glenn's assessment is sharp, and I want to add to it an often unmentioned facet of the current cultural mess: We are participating in a consumer culture. More and more people behave as passive consumers. Television watchers, anonymous internet surfers whose role it is merely to judge the actions of others.

Is Obama good or bad? Click this button to answer the survey.

Is Lady Gaga's VMA outfit appropriate? Click this button to answer.

We see ourselves only as spectators, not as actors within the landscape.

One of the most useful things that we can do is to step up and replace the corporate system. We need business structures that are alternatives to business as usual: Cooperatives, nonprofits, small mom and pop stores. We should be looking for ways to stop giving corporations our money. It's not that they should play no role whatsoever in our economy. (I, for example, am unlikely to invent heart medication in my home basement. So until I can, I'm happy to let big pharma take on those roles. But I'd also be happy to have our government regulate them in a reasonable manner in the meantime.)

We should stop thinking of ourselves as a rowdy Apollo Theater audience and more as actors within a dynamic system. Until then, we will be getting exactly the communities that we deserve.

You lost a little bit of your dignity and some of your mortality, so you've decided to trade what you lost in for an admitted weakness for younger women. That seems fair.

When I hit 70 I'm going to roam the planet telling everybody exactly what I think of them. The carnage will be immense.

Glad you are feeling better, Keillor. Take care of yourself.

Since I'm ranking at comment #526, I assume that this has been said before. But this joint letter reflects how these men see themselves. Criminals don't write letters to their prosecutors arguing why they should not be investigated. In their eyes, this is not a case of right or wrong, but business as usual. The truly sad part is that Obama probably sees it that way as well.

These are all terrible precedents to establish in American history. Nixon argued for his own immunity against the law, and now in the era of Obama, that immunity has finally been given. Lawmakers and law enforcers need not follow their own rules.

This is exactly how European government rotted from the inside out. Our system is being poisoned from the inside by corruption, murder, and cronyism. If we the people don't do something about it, our democracy will be a sham. These are things that I sincerely believe.

Jezebel.com featured clips from this episode. You forgot to describe Gayle's skit as being painfully banal. They made the actors mouth -- word for word -- lines from actual episodes.

Imagine if you had a Gone with the Wind fantasy, and you insisted that Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh whisk you through Tara, as they mouthed all their lines: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." "Fiddlysticks!" That's creepy.

Another possible option is for Gayle to get an animatronic Don Draper. Why not? She's Oprah's besty. I guess money really does change everything.

I don't know why everyone is assuming that the parents of this controversial baby are going to force the child into gender neutrality.

If the baby displays male gender traits then so be it.

If the baby displays female gender traits then so be it.

And he or she most certainly will. The point is not to ASSUME anything.

Seriously, this tiny experiment means almost nothing. Children have a way of asserting their personality very early in life. Nothing's being screwed up or damaged.

I think that the people who claim that the child will be harmed are making assumptions based on their own experience. Maybe YOU are the one who clings to gender as identity. Don't put that on the kid.