Diana T,  Thanks for your comment.  This former New Yorker who has read Liz Smith column for decades knows she is a great lady!  So happy Liz will be doing her thing regularly with Wow.

I’m not angry, Marjorie. More like cold hard fury in Lily of the Valley’s last post when she demanded for the third time that Wow close out her registration, and with it removed all of her posts from the last 7 or so months. One of the most intelligent, decent, kind, insightful women gone from here. Why? She said she felt betrayed with Joni’s tactic of bringing on her (former?) client, Ann Coulter, and the other rightwing nutjobs like Monica Crowley and Liz Peek. Where are the analogues?? Because that would mean Michael Moore "Stupid White Men" "Farenehite 911" etc. Or Rachel Maddow, Graydon Carter, Al Franken, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert,  Keith Olbermmannl ie give someone on the far Left with national weight and following equal time here. Do you see that?

Apparently Joni doesn’t appreciate my calling her out on her lack of integrity….which is what baiting the nutters with Coulter is, esp when there is no counterweight Michael Moore, etc.

Coulter was a cheerleader for an illegal war that caused over 1 M deaths and 2.4M displaced and along with other GOP thug tactics has bankrupted this country. Where is the responsible heavy-weight national political counterweight to her [Monica Crawley/Liz Peek’s] views?

This week was the 7 month anniversary of my brother’s suicide. He was a completely decent, ultra responsible, quiet, steady as they come, graceful human being. I doubt he ever paid a bill late or utter a swear word out loud. All he cared about was being a provider which meant a beautiful lakefront home with a sail and ski boat, taking the boys and his dog out, and running a multi-million dollar business out of his home so he was always there for his boys. From a kid he was always a money maker, always careful with money, never flashy, always totally self-reliant. More than any other factor he, like the French aristocrat who killed himself over losing all his money and in his client’s in the Madoff scam, are victim’s of the GOP ‘policies’ that caused this melt-down, the same evil policies that the lunatic rightwing types like Coulter have championed.  SHE is responsible like Limbaugh and the others for dumbing down the US populace so that those kinds of scams can go on. Apparently Joni doesn’t approve of my questioning anyone’s integrity who’d be first an agent to that diabolical, evil piece of work for one; and then as the chief of a site for women, not having the counterweight to her views if she wants to bring that garbage here. The kind of garbage that ran Lily of the Valley and other decent women like her off this site.

As far as I am concerned, those lunatics from the right, the ones that even Senator Chuck Hagel (R) detests, are the ones that created the conditions that led to my brother’s suicide. If the market hadn’t been gamed and the floor dropped below him he’d be alive today. He didn’t want to do it. He was ashamed of it, and apologized. But he had given his word on obligations and the way to take care of them on time was his multi-million dollar insurance policy. Obviously a very poor decision in a lifetime of good ones. But as he said in his note, it wasn’t in his nature to fail on his obligations. He was a very witty graceful person who loved life, he even said in his note he’d been a happy person. He even went somewhere alone so noone would be distrubed. He even left a note of apology for the police at the site for making them come out and take care of what he had done, he left them an envelope with all of his papers, and his prepaid cremation information. The evil GOP policies that wrecked the economy—foremost the total deregulation of derivatives—is the #1 reason my brother is dead. If Joni wants to give a platform for the pure evil that is Coulter—-then she should have the editorial integrity to balance that with a nationally recognized figure from the other side.