You know, some days during this administration, it's almost too embarrassing to get out of bed in the morning.

I LOL'd when I read that line. Very true! I've never been a great admirer of frat-boy business majors but he's just the creepiest bast*rd ever. If, as they say, active alcoholics (and dry drunks) are always the age at which they started drinking heavily, I guess we know why he behaves like a clueless frat-boy...

...that anytime some jacka$$ running for office says "Mistakes were made..." they are NOT elected (or re-elected) to public office?

That has to be the biggest bull$hit/cop-out line of the late-20th-century/early-21st-century. It shows they can't/won't/don't know how to lead. (Though I know Duh-b-ya has added a bunch of his own making to the lexicon of stupidity and ineptitude.)

I often think some women equate an engagement ring with the value of a marriage, when it's nothing more than jewelry!

Good point. I've never gotten the whole "It has to be X week's/month's salary or else!" thang some women do. What a load of hor$se$hit. That attitude repulses me (in a man or a woman).

Sometimes women are their own worst [sexist] enemies.

hung her head in shame...once again. (Poor old girl's got neck spasms from keeping it in that position for the past 6 years.)

Ms. Jacobson bears the blame for calling during that sensitive time. Maybe it was questionable judgment, as shown in this hospital-phone-call incident, that got her fired in the first place. Some people live for drama.

people might give a rat's hindquarters what Buckley says. Now, right or wrong, who does? And why the hell has it taken the pompous b*astard 6 years to come to this conclusion?

...calling to say we don't want to claim Bats*it Annie as one of ours. I can understand why straight people don't want to claim her either. She makes the chick from the Exorcist look like Holly Hobbie.

Can't we settle this by sending her duck- (or fat-cat-) hunting with Cheney instead?

As we've seen with someone like Condoleezza Rice, for a woman in higher office, sexuality is scrutinized as much as policymaking.

Please don't fall (yet again) for the mainstream media's problem of not seeing the news right in front of their collective faces and resorting to tabloid/TV news items and trying to fob them off as "news". Like the story about Condi's workout routine. Regardless of the fact that no other self-respecting Sec of State would encourage such a lame-a$$, lighter-than-light feature about him/herself, the media ate that up just like the rest of the crap the W.H. throws its way.

If a Sec of State is actually engaged in policymaking, most are, that would be news...instead, we have the Harriet Myers-ism of the Sec of State's office, the Barney-ization, if you will, in which Condi is covered much like the W.H. doggies.

This issue is less about sexuality and more about the inanity of today's media coverage.

As far as the Hillary bust goes, you just fell for the museum's PR pitch...

...Post-partum psychosis can, sadly, be that bad. To say it's not is to show cruel ignorance I find surprising in Salon readers.

I know someone (no, it's not me) whose birth mother was so psychotic that she was repeatedly hospitalized after giving birth to her daughters. The father, who traveled most of the time for business, who'd come home to find the little girls unfed, unbathed, uncared for and his wife rocking and keening in a corner. And worse...until he found the courage to put them in foster care. The middle child, whom I know, is now a grown woman who copes with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome on an ongoing basis as a result of that early-childhood nightmare. She was fortunate enough to be adopted by a loving family. (This was back in the early '60s.)

The LW who referred to Rusty Yates, the physician, minister, et al, as being guilty is correct, IMHO. They saw this woman's suffering and chose to ignore it out of ignorance, stubbornness or some bats*hit-crazy religious belief. Where were the church congregants who should have/could have offered help? Where was the doctor who could have stepped in? Five children died because of them. They never got the second chance at some semblance of a healthy life that my friend got. To me, they are criminally negligent in a way Ms. Yates is not.

...folks in other countries think we're a bunch of tight-a$$ed Puritans. Same back-a$$ed mentality that says Clinton should be impeached for getting a blow job but that Henry Hyde was OK for his "youthful indiscretions" at age 40. Or who can't fathom why Bush should be impeached for his crimes against this nation and its people.

I'm not a mom and don't plan to be, but seeing a woman breast-feed in public doesn't offend me. I've yet to see a woman who didn't handle it with dignity and consideration for others.

has a particularly aggressive form of Tourette's syndrome. She seems unable to control her hatred-spewing outbursts...and perhaps her pimps want to keep her off her meds because that's how she brings in the dough. I wonder if you slipped some meds in her bev of choice before she went on Hardball or some other desperate-for-viewers show whether she'd be rational.

(with apologies to anyone who does have Tourette's syndrome and who has received help)