Is Margo not a "wOw Woman"? I don’t see her in the pics at the top … or perhaps she was never there and it’s taken me this long to realize it. Anyway I love the little tabs in the upper right corner - so cute!

One suggestion: the buttons in the menu bar should say what they are on rollover. I recognize RSS, print, and Facebook, and am guessing the envelope is e-mail? But I don’t know the others. Also it would be nice if the wOw Features section was above the Most section. Am hoping more Update Profile changes are coming, to include a Display Name.

Wow, that was a mouthful. Overall I am very happy to see these changes! This is one of my top 5 websites, so thank you!

I think it’s a shame that Lindsay went so nuts with her celebrity because she is a great actor. It’s just hard to remember that when she’s all over the tabloids looking gaunt and acting like a typical young Hollywood celebrity. I thought she was amazing in Parent Trap, Mean Girls, and that one movie with Jamie Lee Curtis.

Not to mention she was so beautiful as a red-head! I was disappointed to see her go blonde like everyone else.

I think that’s kind of the point - that may be how 12 year olds speak, but it’s not normally how they write. It looks like whoever wrote the letter inserted those tween-friendly phrases to make it sound like something a 12 year old would say, without considering what a 12 year old would write. A girl who would use a phrase like "injuring our friendship" would not have said "freakin’".

I don’t think the letter was all that well-written, so that is not why I suspect it to have been written by someone other than a 12 year old girl. The writing just doesn’t seem consistent.

I’m a little taken aback at the strong reaction Hillary’s response has generated. Sure, she could have - and probably should have - been a little more gracious. But considering she is married to a man who was ridiculed for his extramarital activities during his presidency yet has somehow regained enormous popularity, I imagine she must feel some resentment towards his (perceived?) usurpment of her political role. Perhaps she feels that she supported him when he had his chance, and now it is her turn to make a name for herself.

I definitely don’t think she deserved all this negative attention. Directing a question towards her husband did seem to devalue her opinion, and especially for a woman who nearly had a chance to be the first female President of the US, that is quite demeaning.

Hi Heidi,

I too love re-reading books. When I was a child my most favorite place in the world was the library. I greedily devoured all the books in "my" sections until, having nothing else left, I brought them all back around for round two … then three … then four, and I lost count.

Oddly, I don’t usually remember much about books once I’ve finished them, so that re-reading is like discovering a sunrise - I’ve seen one before, but could it have been this magnificent? I don’t remember … so the re-visiting isn’t a re-visit at all.

I go through my paperbacks periodically, when the shelves are jammed and the books are no longer even pretending to be in any kind of order. I give away the ones I can live without, which gives me room for more. I have some books that I have had ever since I was a child, not just for the story, but because the smell of the pages reminds me of when I first fell in love with written words.

Hold on to your hard hat! =)

Hi Liz,

It wasn’t actually George Washington who said the above quote, it was a line in the Treaty of Tripoli which was signed by then-President John Adams.

Nature’s defense.

I think it must depend on one’s area. Here in New Mexico, and where I’ve lived in Texas, I would say probably less than 5% of white Americans do not have a significant relationship etc etc.

What I meant when I said the President’s comment did more to harm race relations is that for anyone who was already wary of the situation because it involved a black person, or who was already wary of the President himself because he’s black, his comment in knee-jerk support of Gates without any investigation will be filtered through a lens that the President is biased because of his race. Regardless of what prompted his response, the perception of the majority is what counts, and as a black man and as the President, he is more than aware of this, which is why he took steps to counterract his statement.

As far as your amazement regarding the perception of the President as black, as you said yourself - that’s how he identifies himself. If that’s the side of him that he is most willing to be identified by, and that is the side he is the most proud of, who is anyone else to come along and label him as otherwise? I don’t discount the fact that President Obama is half-white, but truthfully, that’s not what makes him unique in a long line of white U. S. Presidents. My children are half-Navajo and half-white, but whenever the subject arises, they are more usually apt to identify with the Navajo blood than the white. Anyway, I’m pretty sure if the President chose to label himself as "bi-racial", he would be seen - by whites and blacks alike - as attempting to diminish his blackness.