This is the response I e-mailed to O'Reilly. So far, no acknowledgement.

Dear Dr. O'Reilly,

Oh, excuse me, I meant Mr. O'Reilly--I forgot for a moment that you are not a certified Ob-Gyn.

I am a 50-year old mother of two and grandmother of one. I am also a librarian, and getting the facts right is important to me.

One day in February of 1967, when I was 10 years old, I came home from school to learn that my mother was sick in bed. This was something that never, ever happened in our house, so I knew she must really be sick. As it turned out, she had an ectopic pregnancy. It ruptured that night and she died of internal bleeding, leaving my father with me, my brother, and two sisters. It is the kind of loss that one never really gets over.

Try to imagine the shock and dismay I felt upon hearing you insist, as you did in your October 11 radio broadcast, that it is "never the case" that a pregnancy can endanger the mother's life because "you can always have a c-section and do those kinds of things." It's a shame my dad didn't call you that night instead of the family doctor (who thought she had the flu.) Perhaps you could have recommended "those kinds of things," and saved her life.

I'm not sure which annoys me more--the ignorance you displayed in making that obviously misinformed statement, or the arrogance with which you delivered it.

Oh, wait--it's the arrogance.

Sincerely,

Susan Thaler

As one of her constituents, I find Hillary to be almost invisible as a senator. I am not enthused about her running for president. She seems to have no firm stand on anything. That is not what we need right now.

I've had it twice. It goes away. Get over it

Just goes to show ya...the NYSE is filled with criminals

You can't fit you bike in the back? Why did you buy it then? The minivan would have been more practical. Also, Mitsu's may be a nice Japanese brand, but the aren't in the top 3 (Honda Toyota, Nissan) so good luck with reliability in the long run. I know what you mean about the Volvo tho. I'm a mechanic that specializes in them and yes, they cost an arm and a couple of legs to keep running.

I'm a Saab mechanic and ex Saab owner. I work in a small independent shop in the Northeast. When the dealer up the street folded many of the customers came to me because I had worked there. They were in shock. Many had owned Saabs for decades and didn't know where to turn. We have done our best to accommodate them. In truth, it's been 15 years since the last "real" Saab was made. The 1994 900 convertible. The rest have been GM clones with Saab touches added on....Ah well, so it goes

yes

crocs suck. I have permanent scars from the rivets

It's not just right wingers. I think prizes should not go for 'effort'. What is this, kindergarden? I'm a pragmatic leftie and I find this an embarrassment

I run both also. Apple makes some really slick hardware and my mac at home has never crashed, but, all my apps at work run on windows.

Mac, intuitive, I think not. It's all what you're used to.

Ignore the brouhaha. My father has been taking readings in the lower Hudson valley for the NWS for 50 years and has all the preceding data. He was at first skeptical about warming, but his first hand recordings have shown a definite trend upward