I apprecciate these occassional wrap ups. That way I don't have to watch the show but I still get a few answers. I watched the first two seasons but they lost me after that. All I want to know is what is the island's purpose. Hopefully that will be answered next year.

I watched Jeff Lewis in the first season. A guy you love to hate. My biggest question is why those people (his employees) put up with him. What is the psychological need that he fulfills for them?

I watched part of the first show of the new season. I watched his dialoge on the required temperature of his coffee until he finally said to get it at 150 degrees, that way it would cool down to the required 140 by the time it got to him. At that point I think I just had enough of him.

Somehow I don't think so.

From Thinkprogress.org

Last night on Bloomberg TV, McCain economic adviser Carly Fiorina repeated the laughable claim first offered by McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin that Sen. Barack Obama — not John McCain — would be a third Bush term. Fiorina said:

I think if you look at the record, it may be Barack Obama who is running for Bush III. But it certainly is not John McCain.

I still get a kick out of hearing the Repubs. dissing their once beloved Commander-in-Chief.

LW wrote: But now I caught feelings for him because I got to know him more than what I knew before. I understood why my friend was still with him even after all the cheating and lies because underneath it all he is a good person.

Wow, just wow. Cheating is the opposite of a good person's behavior. He's "charming" and he's using that charm on you. He's not a good person if he cheats. And he's not a good person if he's coming on to another woman, which he is. The guy is scum and now he's made the LW scum too.

Oh well. We all make choices in life. This is too pathetic for me to even worry about, except for the poor kids.

LW wrote: I feel like it is rude for Mary to always include so many other people without asking me when I am the one who has made the invitation.

It is rude! It's beyond rude. It's arrogant, controlling and self centered.

I feel like it is rude of her to wait until the last minute to let me know when we can meet up.

I repeat, it is rude.

You need to drop this one. Move one.

She sounds like she needs to be the center of attention. Bringing 35 people on an outing sounds like a tour director, not a friend. She's using her money to buy her friends. The only reason you mentioned that these new friends of hers admire her is because she's spending money on them. there's no mention of any other qualities she might have that they enjoy.

Move one. You'll have your memories.

The answer is simple and we all know it. It's expected, thus taken for granted, of women because they are the mother. Mothers are supposed to, by nature, nurture and care for children. When the mother and father aren't together as a couple, it's a standard expectation that the mother has the majority of the care taking role. Because of this, when a father is the main or only care taker it's looked upon as special.

As David pointed out it's unfair, but there it is.

If the LW found information by "googling" the guy, then maybe she can get the wife to do the same. Doesn't everyone google their SO's at some point anyway?

The real problem here is that this couple clearly didn't come to an understanding about financial issues before they married. Money & children are two of the major issues that engaged couples should discuss before they tie the knot.

I have a niece who married a man who also thought it was her parents' responsibility to pay her college debt. He didn't like that she came to the marriage with debit (not that it was any secret to him). Her parents had paid all they were going to of her college debt for a variety of reasons not worth mentioning. My niece & her husband are now divorced.

I wonder if the LW has considered participating in a cancer support group. They can be found in most cities. American Cancer Society, Gilda's Club, etc. There she can easily find people who will understand her new attitude and issues with family not wanting her to change.

I'm going through chemo right now for a rare cancer. I feel pretty good that I will be disease free for a while, but I know that likely won't last forever. My attitude has changed too, but not in the way the LW's has. I tend to take more pleasure from the once boring day-to-day events. But to each her own.

I enjoyed her speech but what I found really interesting was the scroll at the bottom of the page. "Senator McCain is sending his wife Cindy McCain to Georgia to assess the human damage." Or something like that. What a hoot.

Wow, troll city in the letters. And two of them are new to Salon, having fewer than 10 letters each to their credit.

I don't suppose we can expect this to be a jumping off point for national discussion of how teens are looking after these babies while finishing school, going to college, etc. Who handles daycare? Who pays the bills? How involved are the fathers? Not all pregnant teens have supportive families. Not all pregnant teens have families who care at all.

I'm hoping for the impossible but it would be nice if the Repubs would start to open their eyes to the realities of teenage pregnancies on all levels.

Get a job with a later start time. Try a 2nd shift job.