There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric.

Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles.

The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women do bad things.

Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year.

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.