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• Do Kindle owners hate books?

  Wed Feb 18, 2009
  • Call me a Luddite if you wish (make sure you capitalize it, if you do...

• I have two husbands: A polygamist's diary

  Tue Feb 17, 2009
  • Technically, it's only defined as polygamy if a man has multiple simultaneous wives. When a woman has more than one husband at the same time, the correct term is polyandry. If the writer didn't know that, it makes me wonder whether the whole story is a fabrication.

• Octuplet mom: I’ll raise them on student loans

  Tue Feb 10, 2009
  • Doesn't really matter what this idiot THINKS welfare is or is not. If she's receiving public assistance, whether food stamps or supplemental social security (from a fund into which she has not paid a cent), it's welfare.

• Dad reunites with son taken 4 years ago

  Tue Feb 10, 2009
  • As an architect in the USA, I've had dealings from time to time with clients and consultants from several Central and South American countries.  Typically, these have not been "salt of the earth", but have been bankers, attorneys and politicians, from old families with old money, who are …

• Octuplets: Cautionary tale not triumph, say experts

  Thu Jan 29, 2009
  • What in God's name possessed a couple with six children already to take fertility treatments in the first place?  Wasn't six kids enough?  And what kind of ethics would allow a physician to PROVIDE fertility treatments to a couple with six kids?

• It's not always a dog's life at the White House

  Fri Dec 12, 2008
  • Absolutely.  Rescue a dog.  You save a dog and you make a statement at the same time.  There are no "hypo-allergenic" dogs.  Any dog would do if it's groomed and bathed every few days, and if the Obamas can't afford weekly grooming, I don't know who can.

• As fares and fees rise, passengers want service

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • I'm an architect who moved to the mainland from Honolulu in 1991, and I've only been on a plane one time since then... and that was a private jet that a client provided at his expense.

• David Duchovny not alone in sex addiction

  Thu Sep 4, 2008
  • We need to remember that there is a big difference between someone within a relationship, who uses porn compulsively for self-gratification, and someone who is not presently within a relationship, but who doesn't have time or energy at this stage of his or her life to go out and establish a …

• David Duchovny not alone in sex addiction

  Thu Sep 4, 2008
  • We need to remember that there is a huge difference between compulsive use of porn for self-gratification by someone who is already in a relationship, and the use of porn as a convenience by someone who is not in a relationship but doesn't usually have time or energy to find a committed partner at …

• Wise answers to old wives' tales

  Wed Aug 27, 2008
  • Ben Cramer is a journalist. My physician has been a department head at a teaching hospital for more than 20 years. Let's see... which one will I trust with medical questions? Bottom line, I think Ben's got a few of his own answers wrong.