One more time all together now: Liberals have the Daily Show, I have this.

You also have Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Gibson, Buchanan, Beck, Matalin, Sclussel, Robertson, Falwell, Dobson, Boortz, Geraldo, Thomas, Luntz, Medved and these are just the ones I can think of right off the top of my pointy little libtard head.

Not to mention Little Green Footballs, Free Republic, Red State, Right Wing Nuthouse, Riehl World View, ProteinWisdom, The Sundries Shack and a whole host more that I can't be bothered to look up.

I don't care if you post here. I *like* having someone on the other side to match wits with. I would encourage you to post even more. You can insult me just as much as you wish, I like that too because it shows my opponent has nothing more deadly in his quiver.

But don't go crying that you have nowhere else to go, that's total bullshit.

"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron."

--Spider Robinson

Liberals have the Daily Show, I have this.

I'm completely aware that the media outlets you mentioned are available to me. But you try to read Foxnews.com, it's not easy. Plus, many of the outlets you mentioned still support Bush. I am a Conservative, not a Republican (those two camps got a divorce around 05).

I reference the Daily Show because it is liberals making fun of conservatives and laughing about the whole thing. You guys had no other option. Republicans ruled the universe, and you guys rightly pointed out a lot of ridiculous stuff. Now the Republicans have ruined the universe and Madame Pelosi and Hillary are going to save us all. I wish you (and them) luck in accomplishing that.

I find these letter boards so entertaining because I see people trying to outliberal each other. People tripping over other people to be the most in touch with chic liberal ideology. I'm going to point out when you're being idiots. My voice is valuable and based in reality. I went to a public high school in the midwest (got values), then on to the ivy league (got PC). I guess I got the background that would make a liberal want to listen. I've worked at fast food restaurants and factories. Worked my way through college, and got a degree from a school that lets in less tha 1 in 10. Now I have a job, volunteer, and do what is right.

I believe America is the greatest country in the history of the world. Even if we aren't, it's where I'm spending my brief stint on this rock flying through space. Let's do what is best for America. I think conservative values are better for that agenda. And c'mon, let me enjoy some hearty laughs on account of how out of touch a lot of libs are.

Quick quiz: What is better for America? traditional family values or Al Sharpton??

a little bit softer now: "Liberals have the Daily Show, I have this."

FYI - I've never used the word 'libtard' before and I never will. I respect the people and families touched by down syndrome too much to go there. Don't put words in my mouth.

1. They write trivial, self-indulgent articles

2. They are blatantly sexist, bordering on abusive, toward men (and little boys)

3. They gain wealth and fame by Walsh -- rather than by merit

FWIW, I've written many vituperative letters. I am not loathe to decry these ladies as bilious man-hating cows -- and that's on a good day.

Seems to me they enjoy nothing more than trampling men from their lofty Salon post. And then pitying their loniliness.

Which, at its core, is the agenda of the post-feminist anti-man movement promulgated by said publication.

Writers, heel* thyselves --

* yes, that spelling was intended

Why do I doubt your veracity? Let me count the ways.....

Dude, just because that community college had ivy plants doesn't make it "Ivy League." Nice try, though. Thanks for playing.

...yeah, it's a little late to post here, but this thought has been evolving in my head for a while, and I wanted to share it.

Kamiya mentions the trolls driving other people away from the letters page, and from Salon. That's a valid concern, I think, and so it seems only fair to talk about which "trolls" have actually gone so far as to drive me away. They aren't the obvious ones. In fact, I'm pretty sure none of them are trolls, in the sense of trolling for reactions, at all.

I left Salon for one whole week after reading a number of letters from people with herpes insisting it wasn't possible to transmit herpes while they were asymptomatic, despite doctor's opinions to the contrary. I just didn't want to be in the same space anymore with those people. In retrospect, I'm actually grateful for the experience, and grateful to Salon for providing a space for them to write letters: if I am ever widowed or divorced, I'll think long and hard about those letters when I start dating again.

I took a two day break in response to a letter from someone saying that clothes should not be available in large sizes because fat people should be punished for being fat. Just didn't want to hang out with bigots, the ugliness of that letter made me feel tired. Don't think I gained anything from reading that one, any more than I gain by seeing a curse word spraypainted on a bridge.

I've taken short breaks to restore my personal balance in response to a number of letters taking various forms of money, education and privilege for granted. I don't live on a coastline; I live in Memphis, and bless me, most of you guys are outta touch with the way the middle of the country lives. I'm a yellow-dog Democrat, and these are the letters which give me insight into why Republicans fear liberals. But they are also letters from the majority of your readers. They need to be out there. I need to be reading them and being offended by them, and writing back, and offending in turn, because that's what you call "dialogue" and we have damn little of that in this country right now. If even a liberal from Memphis can't communicate meaningfully with people on the coastlines, we have a problem. I'm up for continuing to work it out if you guys are.