All right, I'll admit it - I've had some pre-New Years champagne, and gawd, Rebecca - that was fun. I need a cigarette - and I've never smoked. Tobacco, anyway. Great summary. I wish the year itself had been that enjoyable... (well, besides the election.)

Happy New Year!

If the bulk of the republican party and candidates think like the ones you just qouted, I wouldn't count on "Plan B" staying legal for anybody much longer. Incidently, men need to splooge, it helps clean out the system. Come up with a pill that just kills the sperm and then we'll talk.

P.S.

Speaking of splooge, I would love to be the one to ejaculate on Paris Hiltons face! (and Lohan, and Britney, and...)

If there is a translation and/or a glossary that comes with this-uh-article, I'd like to have one.

I was snickering like an evil 13-year-old in the back of the class reading this. I mean, really, if: "TTFN, crap weasels," doesn't sum up the year that was 2006, nothing does!

Thanks, Rebecca! I enjoy your your work for Salon.

While the site slowly falls apart. I couldn't read most of this piece (of shit) because the banner ads were somehow interfering with the text. This has been going on since Thursday and it can only mean that nobody's watching the store. Well hell, when 2 million people are stupid enough to fork over subscriptions that are unnecessary to begin with what with all the people who have to look at the ads, who gives a shit about the service??

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Salonites.

May the decorations short out and burn your houses down.

This is a fun piece...a good way to help mentally incorporate some of the human behavior displayed. I remember most of the incidents described here and many of them were TMI or made me shake my head and wonder what the hell is going on with our population. A few of them produced victims, sadly. Is this the result of over-population? Rebecca's take is helpful; its another side of the story and lets me know I am not alone in wonderment. Good for Salon for covering so much of what we see.

An old shipmate of mine described a critic as "the kind of guy who shits in the river and then runs downstream to throw rocks at it when it floats by". I've done a bit of that in my life. So, what?

I've been around for nearly 68 years performing dumb tricks and still I feel embarrassment for those who get caught. With such an advantage of hindsight I know many of these behaviors are very human. Some people are just more human than others.

Happy New Year everyone,

These are people who died died

Rick "Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?" Santorum, I think I'll miss you most of all.

And Eddie I miss you more than all the others THIS SONG IS FOR YOU MY BROTHER

The O'keefe crack may be the funniest aside I've ever seen in Salon. My props to the writer, who seems to have been looking awfully closely at all the strange flowers in 2006.

why is this claim then linked to a p.r. website for a dubious "sexual enhancer" cream? while many of my friends would corroborate that the contraceptive pills lead to a decrease in sexual desire, "Lyriana" as the link on your column offers us is not exactly "medical wizard" material. Why not actually link to the studies done this year, Panzer, et al, (2006) instead of some snake oil remedy? http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/896/62

what is wrong with you? Note the creepy Lyriana logo reminiscent of the female genitalia (look between the petals).... There are actual data, not just commercial propaganda out there, so why not reference it? Yay on the HPV and Plan B mention in your column, most people don't understand or know enough about the HPV vaccine (it's not all roses...and you'll still get abnormal paps, but you are less likely to get cervical cancer), but why tout a questionable "remedy"? I can just give you my email address, and you can start sending me promoting spam, for christ's sake.

Oh, and rumor has it that Viagara does have effects on women (and reports of firsthand experience). Why not pop your boyfriend's/husband's pills (ooh, off-label use, tsk tsk!)?

Do you and readers alike a favor and refrain from sending emails with subject lines like "So Long , Sugar Tits". You sound like Elton John saying farewell to Joan Rivers after a case of mistaken sex. I am hardly one to be mistaken for a prude, but I don't care to be greeted with such a witless, low grade vulgarity when I open up my Outlook program. Really, you need to be a little more clever to entice someone to read the articles, let alone pay the subscription fee for the privilege. Really, write more suitable subject lines, or it will be more than email subscriptions I'll be canceling.

This article is proof positive that Salon has completed its slow descent from "news magazine" into "collection of poorly written blogs."

War Room is the poor mans Talking Points Memo. The Fix wishes it were Defamer, while Broadsheet apes Gawker. Audiofile is Stereogum-lite.

This article reads like a poor imitation of other celebrity gossip blogs -- equal parts Perez Hilton, Pink is the New Blog, and Go Fug Yourself.

More importantly, when did Salon, purportedly an "online magazine" with original reporting, sharp editing, and smart content become so vacuous?

David Talbot has claimed Salon is "a smart tabloid." I think this article's "witty" neologisms like "Year of the Snatch", "Category Douchebag" "crap weasels", "cock-tease-alicious" - clearly prove otherwise...

are wreaking havoc with my browser.

Absolutely hysterical. Thank you.

That was an excellent f*ckin' summary of the way it was.

Particularly liked the concept of the brazen broad

showin' it ALL off...'in yer face' nosey-bodies!

Buy a fucking subscription you cheap asshole, and stop your bitching.