Why do we care? And sasn't she had that baby yet? This feels like the longest pregnancy in history & I'm not the pregnant one. It's just that we've been hearing about it for so long. Just have the kid & be done with it.

Okay, so he blamed someone else. Par for the course. The next question is: when will we see at least one of the "hundreds" of photos he took in Iraq?

So the strategists have come full circle in selling Bush to the American people. The problem is that now, after 6+ years, voters have different expectations of him. Now, voters are finally opening their eyes to the lies and corruption of power. I can't help but think this new old ploy is an act of desparation.

I was shocked & thrilled to hear that Tom DeLay has stepped down. But it didn't last long. My next thought was "what gives?" I can't help but feel very skeptical about all this. It's completely out of character for DeLay to do this, which leads me to wonder what's coming around the bend.

I just this interesting piece of information on Josh Marshall's site:

"R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post points out one advantage to DeLay's quitting the race now: he can convert all of the campaign money he would have spent on a close election to his legal defense fund."

Money, as always, plays a part in it. So, he solicited money on the grounds that he'd campaign for his seat, and now he drops out & gets to use the money to pay his legal bills. Sounds like something the people who gave him that money should know. I know that when I donate money to someone/something I expect it to be used for the implied purpose and would be mightly unhappy if it were used otherwise, without my consent.

Eric,I agree, that number is staggering, but I somehow think it's true. When I was raped many years ago, I told about 12 people. Out of those 12, 7 were women. Of those 7 women, 3 told me that they too had been raped in the past. I had known these women for years & considered them good friends but had never known this about them. They each said I was the first person they'd told, other than their spouses. My point is, that there are a lot of women who just don't report it or tell anyone about having been raped.

General Boykin (anyone else think his name needs a 'g' at the end?) reminds me of the character General Jack D. Ripper from the movie "Dr. Strangelove". And that didn't turn out well for anyone.

I get a kick out of the folks who think all that has to happen is for the husband to tell his wife that an old (or long time) friend is moving from out of town & I'd like you two to meet. Don't you think the wife will ask a few innocent curious questions? Whether he lies to tells the truth, it will be apparent to his wife that he's had an emotionally intimate relationship with someone for 7 years that she knew nothing about. That's the betrayal. She'd most likely wonder what else she doesn't know about him; what else has he lied about.

This relationship is clearly not good for his marriage nor is it good for the LW. She needs to allow herself to be emotionally available for someone who she can have a truthful relationship with.

I enjoyed Joan's review.

I admit I haven't read Caitlin's book or any of her writings. That kind of bickering about 'stay at home' vs. 'not stay at home' stuff is just foolishness to me. But I did read the NYTimes piece on housework this week & having read Joan's review of the book I can righteously claim that I've diagnosed Caitlin's problem! Obviously, she felt abandoned by her mother as a child & is blaming it on her mother going to work, thus she is hashing it all out in public via her writings. Apparently the paid for therapy hasn't worked and she's brilliantly figured out a way to work through her issues & get paid for it too.

As for working at the kitchen table, I do that too, before I go to my office job and again at night after I return. Can I claim both "at home" & "away from home" status?

I'm trying to figure out what would motivate a person to remain in a long-term relationship like this...that goes for both the LW & the husband.

I grew up in the era that Caitlin longs for and my parents went out together at night without us kids regularly. Her disdain for what she terms "date night" is ludicrous. It's just normal socializing. Of course there is the obvious fact that she seemed to think it was some sort of foreplay that the wife needs to lead up to sex, which Caitlin's deems unneccessary (the foreplay, not the sex.)

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I heard a couple of the brainiacs on Fox & Friends over the weekend declaring it unjust that someone from the CIA was fired for leaking while journalists had received Pulitzers for printing leaks. You can guess where they thought the injustice was.