Hi, Ms. Kelly. Thanks for your note! I was not in a position to write for the past year and a half. My situation has changed, and I should be able to write again. I'm very much looking forward to it. :)

Testing testing testing. Cannot seem to get this program to post a comment. I keep getting an "inappropriate language" warning, without any swear words! Very weird.

I am female, and an attorney, the bodies of our children whether in or our of our own bodies - are separate and distinct, and we do not "own" them. I wish people would stop repeating that tiresome and biologically inaccurate statement. What you are saying is that someone should not be forced by law to care for children they have created, whether because we don't want them, or didn't "plan" on them, or feel we can't afford them, or whatever reason. It is not true that the law cannot force us to care for others, because that might make us have to "do something" with our bodies. Men have to pay child support. That means that they have to get their bodies out of bed in the morning, and go to a job. The law DOES require adults to care...

Where does Bozell ever say it's prohibited by the Constitution? Yes, you can say what you like. And you can take criticism for it.

At lest four decades ago, parents and other commentators complained about the degradation of music and popular culture in general, and predicted that it would continue to degenerate. They were (of course) laughed at and denounced as the uncool clods and prudes that they were. But 40 years later, how can anyone say that the situation isn't worse? There is more vulgarity, more profanity, more violent and base sexuality. (And, interestingly, I hear from a lot of younger people how crappy most of the music is, and how much they prefer that of earlier decades.) So, assuming that this trend will continue (and it will, of course, because the shock value gets diminished each time someone pushes he envelope), I'm just curious when the...

No. The reason that Catholics are not evenly dispersed across the U.S. is because they were coming as immigrants (America began as a Protestant nation, of course), and looking for low-wage, entry-level jobs. In the 19th century, those were in factories in urban centers in the north. The south was dependent upon agriculture, and slaves provided the work. Therefore, there were far fewer opportunities to work in that entire half of the U.S.

Ah, yes, that's right. Let's wipe out all of the history and psychology and science that we spent decades learning. There is no doubt that some people are born with a biochemical predisposition to be attracted to the same sex. But those of us with a LOT of gay friends also know what they talk about themselves - and that is the huge numbers of them who suffered sexual abuse as young children. A lesbian colleague once told me how relieved she was to finally find a partner who had not been sexually abused by some man as a child. "It seemed like everyone I dated had some sexual abuse in their background," she said. It did not dawn on her (presumably because this was not her experience) that many of the self-identified lesbians she...

They are already moving to LEDs for Christmas lights. And though they are much brighter, I don't like them as well a traditional lights.

I work, and I am the primary breadwinner. My husband is a musician and a stay-at-home dad. We have made a lot of choices to make sure that one of us is ALWAYS home with our two children. Parenting is a full-time job, and even when children are in school all day, there is homework, and activities, and other things that require parenting and supervision. You cannot outsource it. And if you are not raising your children, then someone else is. Hours each day in day care will not instill YOUR values - it will instill morally neutral, politically correct "values" that may run directly counter to yours.

The most malevolent dictators always get "the people" to hand them the power, so that they "can get things done" without all of the messy matters like opposition, representation, and voting. (Kind of like Tom Friedman is always waxing rhapsodic about how wonderful everything would be if Obama could just run things the way China does.) But these same ignoramuses can't connect the dots between nationalization and rampant inflation, rampant unemployment, and economic decline. This is what you get when you elect someone who promises to take from those who produce, and give to those who make nothing.