Mugsy—”…and not a shot fired.” What Murdoch got for generous donations to the pols backed up by editorial support. Nevertheless he may have bought pigs in a poke because News Corps shares are doing very poorly. How many readers here take conventional newspapers anymore?

It’s men who are discriminated against! Told my son when he got admitted to a top law school he must be a real legal talent to get by the enhanced admissions quotas for women and minorities.

Bart may be unhappy because the wife comes across to me as very self centered. In none of the episodes to date does she express the slightest interest in thinking about her behavior. She might be a lot happier were she to tell Bart about her masturbatory pleasures along with the accompanying fantasies. Un-pc to say but regular sex with the same person over time can get pretty dreary. Bart may then share his which might lead to pleasure and a renewed closeness for both as they assist each other to enhance the masturbation experience. The intense pleasures of fantasy drive masturbation is what’s behind professional dom, dominatrix parlors and to a less extent prostitution. Suspect most men could take it or leave it about sex after the initial encounters with a new partner.

I agree with Mary. Might be a different story with a stronger GOP candidate not wedded at the hip with the current administration’s failed wars. A psychiatrist I strongly suspect McCain has age related cognitive difficulties manifested by an increasingly short temper, his confusion about who are the enemies in Iraq, and his inability to stick to his views. As the pressure mounts towards November what I’m saying will become more and more obvious. A mystery to me how he’ll survive the debates.

Lynn—So women are happier now going through serial marriages, their kids raised in daycare, working themselves like dogs, and so tired out and emotionally frazzled their men are increasingly resorting to prostitutes, sex fantasy parlors, affairs, and one night stands? Women allowed themselves to be talked into seeing themselves as unhappy by a clique of neurotic overeducated upper middle class women with a totally inflated sense of personal entitlement.

As a Fording Canadian Coal Trust unit holder (FDG), I have only nice things to say about my neighbors to the north.

Christina, the betting odds suggest lots of folks feel the same way as you. http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/ http://www.ladbrokes.com/lbr_portal (go to “Specials”)

Mugsy—“Though we adore men individually We agree that as a group they’re rather stupid” Actually I think it’s the other way around. Doesn’t strike me as intelligent to create political and economic conditions forcing women to put their children in child care, work full time, face a 50% divorce rate, antagonize men to point fewer and fewer desire marriage, and induce the formation of a vast gay male population repudiating women as sexual partners. Duh!