Oh my goodness, you're hilarious. Thanks for the biggest laugh of the day.

Pirates! We need more pirates, global warmists. Otherwise, doom. Just look at the chart. Just look at the CHART, people!

The Church of Global Warming is still going strong, I see. This is really a time when we need a separation of church and state.

Any scientific evidence of global warming? None. Everything from the IPCC has been tainted. They've corrupted the data and hid the decline in temperatures in order to keep government money flowing. Glaciers are growing, polar bears are frolicking, but the global warmists are still trying to get their greedy hands on our tax dollars. At least the truth is finally coming out, and these charlatans will have to find another cause. I know -- how about "Global Cooling!"

She might like it a lot. My daughter is 10 (an advanced reader) and loved it.

Random House has a "reluctant reader" book called THE WHITE GATES, about a kid in a Colorado winter resort town who learns how to snowboard while solving a hundred year old mystery. (Full disclosure: I'm the author.) It was selected as a Junior Library Guild premiere for 2009 and the author gets lots of fan letters from sporty kids who love it. (Ahem.) It's out in hardcover right now and will be released in paperback in March.

I read "The Long Way Home" in one sitting after the UPS truck delivered it from Amazon. I couldn't put the book down. This series just keeps getting better and better! Although it is sold as "YA", if you enjoy reading thrillers or mysteries at all I know you'll like this one.

Best. Villain. Ever. Talk about "the banality of evil"? This was no cartoon bad guy, but the real deal. Wow.

I've appeared before our school board, written letters, researched Howard Zinn and his hideous beliefs, and still his tract "A People's History" is taught in our high school.

All these years I've been holding up my little candle in the darkness, trying to shed light on this evil man, and now there are lights everywhere just like mine, banishing the darkness and bringing the truth to light at last.

Thanks, Ben. Thank you, Big Hollywood. I am not alone, and there is hope at last.

Uh, yeah, Jack, that's what we're all saying. With some pretty good proof to back it up, too.

I, personally, am proud to see the deconstruction of Zinn, this vile man, at his passing. Perhaps we can make sure "A People's History" is thrown into the dustbin of history right along with the murderous regimes he supported.

You're absolutely right. I have a DVR, and we don't watch commercials. So I am having an experience that is different. Even so, sometimes we'll catch a moment or two of a commercial or a promotion for a news show and even that is too much.

Excellent image of the chili, by the way. I was hungry and now, not so much.

Okay, people, here's another point of view. I love television! There's so much on that my kids enjoy that we tell them about the lousy tv we had as kids just to tease them.

Our kids learn physics and experimental procedures on "Mythbusters." They see what men do to catch Alaskan king crabs on "Dangerous Catch." Then there's the wonderful Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs," where our kids (and their parents) see all the amazing businesses that Americans create. You think there are jobs "Americans won't do"? Americans will wade in waist-deep poo for money, as long as it's their business and they're the proud owner.

Off of Discovery, the wonderful "iCarly" on Nickelodeon is hilarious, well written, and the most you'll see these clean-cut kids do is a chaste kiss. (Subject to an entire show of angst about it.) The terrific "Ned's Declassified Files" was amazing, witty, and lots of fun. Catch it on reruns and you'll love it too.

Then we watch Food Network shows like "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" where our kids see how small businesses are run by people who love what they do and take pride in their work and their art.

You can find a lot to watch on television, and your life and your kid's lives can be enriched by it. After they get home from swimming practice. And finish with violin and cello and homework.

I try to balance my kid's lives. I can't take them to Africa and see wildebeests flee from crocodiles. Why deny them the experience of seeing it on tv?

Well said, sir. This is a point I hadn't really thought about much, but it makes a lot of sense. To be a liberal means to feel superior, without going through the hard work to actually become an intellectual. I've found it frustrating when I discuss issues with liberals and I find that they haven't done any research or read anything about their topic, but still seem to believe they know more than I do.

The combination of a superior attitude and ignorance is a hallmark of the liberal. Now I know why.

Zinn lived his life as an America-hating Marxist. He lived long enough to see the Marxist dream of a Socialist America dashed to death in Massachusetts. I hope he died knowing that his life's work was an utter failure.

I hope to visit his grave someday. I will lay flowers on his grave...and a copy of "Atlas Shrugged." And then I will walk away laughing.