I could have written your letter, I too have no cable, just Netflix, and read the NYT, as well as listen to NPR. I think it's a pretty great life.

Fascinating stuff about information being addictive! I grew up reading enclyclopedias. Couldn't help myself. I even bought, (on eBay, natch), an old set of Golden Encyclopedias that I had when I was six. I thumb through them nostalgically...and hey! I'm not on the internet!

Good God. We really are a nation founded by puritans. I cannot believe the prudery and outrage about this topic. Oedipal, much? I gave my husband the scenario and he, like me, just couldn't see the problem. Is it because the mom's body is so hot? I know us moms aren't supposed to have hot bodies, else everyone will say "EWWWWW!"

Is it because he does good work and makes people comfortable and maybe the mom doesn't want a stranger to see her in her lingerie? Maybe she respects her son as a professional and really likes his "boudior" work. There is no coochie in these photos. What gives? All you nellies out there are the perverts. Just like those nutty sexually repressed republicans who finally snap and are caught tied up with little boys.

Jeez.

"Hell, I'm jealous of him."

I think that says it all right there.

My mac is only 1.5 years old, but I can't use Joost because I don't have the intel processor. Crap.

FWIW, my sister had a tubal after her second child in her mid twenties, she then had it successfully reversed some years later after her first marriage broke up and she remarried.

I still beleive that a woman should be able to get a tubal when she wants--and live with the the consequenses if any arise.

What a fucking douche.

Diana struck a chord with the women of the world because she obtained that supposed ideal..."princess". That got our attention.

But she exploded in death because she ended up with with all of the problems the rest of us have, except amplified.

We have a few extra pounds, she had bulemia. We work out in the gym in front of strangers, her crotch is exposed on the weight machine in the tabloids. Our husbands cheat on us with younger, more beautiful women; her husband is in love with a woman older and arguably less attractive. And don't get me started on Mother-in-law issues.

She had bad taste in men, foolishly chased the married ones, tried to be a good mom, and died tragically, forever young and beautiful, like Marilyn, at 36. Neither wealth nor beauty could save her.

To say that she is to be emulated is to entirely miss the point of her appeal. It wasn't that she was special, it was that she was like the rest of us.

This stupid, incurious girl could have been raised by the Bushs'. It is utterly, jaw-droppingly appalling that anyone could defend this pathetic creature. She will probably become famous for being an idiot like her doppelgänger, Paris Hilton. I weep for this country.

This person likely had access to a wonderful education, but no one in her life ever bothered to tell her it was important. At least that's my theory.

Sick, just sick.

I voted for Edwards in the primary in 04--I've always liked him. But now, we need a candidate who can beat the Republicans. Hillary and Obama ain't it. Edwards has a shot at winning this thing, they don't, I'm sorry.

I have given to the Edwards campaign and I hope he pulls a Bill Clinton and nails it in the primary season.

He is not the perfect candidate, but he can win.

As for this article, it is a trifle--not worthy of the pixels.

I am ambivalent. I don't trust industry to take the greed out of nukes, hence producing shortcuts and worse, but I am optimistic that there is an Einsteinian solution to clean sustainable energy out there somewhere. I signed the petition, because the government should know that we are watching...

...because I woke up this morning MAD. I dreamed that I was being held at gunpoint by Charles Manson, but it really could have been any unreasonable male, I suppose, and when I woke up I was angry. Angry about honor killings. Angry about FGM. Angry about rape as a war tactic. Angry about rape in general. Angry about cultures that abort little girls because of their low worth in society. Angry about girls not being educated in the 21st century. I am pissed.

And I’m going to do something. Exactly what, I don’t know. I’m a regular middle class shmoe, but I’m going to find a way to contribute. I’ve HAD IT.

Did almost all of the cooking, set a beautiful table, and after I got sick Thanksgiving weekend, did all of the cleaning.

Gender Schmender.

Edwards is the only candidate that I have every given money to. I am just a middle class shmoe, but I found a hundred bucks to throw in. He is struggling for money, so if you REALLY like him, open your wallet--

I saw him speak last year in Georgia and called the Kerry campaign after Edwards left the race and demanded that Edwards be his running mate. (Yeah, I'm sure that did it;)

..but I agree he's just not ready. Obama 2016!

Go Hillary, GO!!

...a happy day in the future when this whole discussion is thought to have been quaint, if not barbaric?

Hillary's appalling gaffe was thoroughly hashed out in the War Room yesterday, with all appropriate criticism. We will be back to regularly scheduled Hillary or Obama bashing (depending on your POV) on Sunday.

(Deviled Eggs...mmmm)

I hate, hate, hate, the "cougar" thing. It's just offensive. Stop calling women bitches, hos, cunts and cougars, please.

Ugh.