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RIGHT-wing hatemongers just can't get over the fact that Mr. Obama (a class act) defeated you fair and square without stooping to your venomous level. If we are attacked, it's Bush who provoked it. As Hillary said, "Once again a Democrat has to clean up the mess left by a Bush. " Nathaniel Levett, Philadelphia

It's not Dan Quayle's fault. He did, after all, cut the usual fee for sharing his wisdom in half. The problem seems to originate with the idiots who are willing to pay the former vice president $25,000 to declaim over the chocolate mousse. These generally are people who have more money than they know what to do with and are willing to pay a lot either to hear somebody espouse the same moronic ideas they hold dear or to discreetly bribe a person who might be important again some day. Students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk think the price is a little steep, even at 50 percent off. They suggest that his $12,500 would cover tuition for three students for a year or do something equally worthwhile.

IN response to Ron Eberly's letter "A bad choice, Jennifer" in the Daily News (Feb. 22): Hey, you punk bully. Why don't you try pushing someone around your own size, you coward? How dare you call this woman a "dopehead slut"! You don't even know her. You're a self- righteous hypocrite. Instead of ripping this woman, why don't you do something about all those unwanted babies from women who listened to your anti-abortion drivel - and try ADOPTION. That way you can prevent those unwanted, neglected children from growing up and impregnating your daughter!

RE: Flavia Colgan's Dec 9 column "Bring in the A-Team to Handle Iraq. " I would like to thank you for your refreshing words. In a newspaper that often presents far left, liberal views that lack any positive solutions, your piece, while still critical of the administrations handling of the Iraq war, exposes a truth the Bush administration tries to sugar-coat at every step and offers a solution. I consider myself a centrist at heart. I can find the good and the bad on both sides of the political coin.

Bob August's Nov. 12 column, "A boy can't escape mother's admonitions," was by far the most sexist piece of journalistic drivel I have read in your newspaper in a long time. Surely this piece reflects the consciousness of one 65-year-old boy (former, thank goodness) newspaperman from Cleveland, and not the entire profession. Why does Mr. August's wife feel that she must remind him to take his keys or wear his raincoat? Is it because he has proved himself too irresponsible to take care of his own needs?

CYBER SPOKEN HERE To test people's virtual language skills, the San Francisco Chronicle recently printed a statement from "technology guru" Arthur Kroker and asked its readers to translate. This is what Kroker said: "We live in a really recombinant culture in which the principles of recombinant genetics are lived out on a daily basis in everyone's lives. If you live in the mediascape - and who does not - it's got ways to clone, splice, retranscribe and resequence memory itself.

FIRST OF ALL, Patricia Ellen March (letter Feb. 4), I am NOT a "liberal. " If you're going to bestow labels, do me a favor and bestow the correct one. Second, I sure would like to hear about "Enron, Enron, Enron day in and day out" the same way people were subjected to the in-depth scrutiny of Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs "day in and day out. " Donna Di Giacomo, Philadelphia Ms. Donna DiGiacomo writing about the Michael Kinsley...

4X4 It seemed like a good bet: four short plays by four playwrights (heights unknown) performed in four spaces, each one measuring 4 feet x 4 feet. And once again, a good bet turns into a losing proposition. The audience is divided into four groups, seeing the shows in a different rotation, in different locastions, each group led by a guide. The fusty, musty building of Plays and Players Theater provides four uncomfortable venues: the basement, filled with all kinds of cables and miscellaneous backstage stuff; the attic, which doubles as a bar, the stairwell (we peer over the banister)

I UNDERSTAND that the Postal Service is in serious financial trouble and that senior management is doing everything in its power to keep this noble [enterprise] afloat. However, try as they will, it is not realistic to think the post office is needed the way it was 10 years ago. Banking on the Internet, paying your bills online, direct deposit and going green are making the solvency of this institution highly unlikely. Poor management is another reason for the current demise. I have a neighbor who is a letter carrier.

I UNDERSTAND that the Postal Service is in serious financial trouble and that senior management is doing everything in its power to keep this noble [enterprise] afloat. However, try as they will, it is not realistic to think the post office is needed the way it was 10 years ago. Banking on the Internet, paying your bills online, direct deposit and going green are making the solvency of this institution highly unlikely. Poor management is another reason for the current demise. I have a neighbor who is a letter carrier.

Will Lindsay Lohan go back to jail? Did Ashton Kutcher really have a threesome? Sick of the inane celebrity palaver that fills the airwaves? Adylia-Rhenee Gutierrez sure was. But, unlike most of us, she did something about it. The 20-year-old Temple University undergrad has launched YhorLife ( www.yhorlife.com ), a general-interest online journal devoted to topics that really matter: how to find a fulfilling career, have a healthy relationship or become a better parent.

FACEBOOK will close down March 15, casting half a billion people into the hell of harsh reality. (That's a rumor, but since I saw it on the Internet, it must be true.) Maybe not, but this is: Facebookers don't even know 20 percent of their "friends," according to a report last month. For me, it's more like 80 percent. (And you?) Facebook, a/k/a Time Sponge, promotes the fiction that anyone you ever sneezed on is a "friend. " It offers an endless stream of "people you may know," hinting that you should "friend" them.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS owner Dan Gilbert responded to Rev. Jesse Jackson's criticism of him yesterday. Gilbert, you'll remember, posted an open letter to fans on the team website in which he ripped LeBron James for leaving the Cavs and signing with the Miami Heat. He even went so far as to call James' decision to leave a "cowardly betrayal. " That was on Thursday night. On Sunday, Jackson got into the act, saying Gilbert's comments "personify a slave-master mentality. " Jackson also said Gilbert treated James as a "runaway slave" and that Gilbert's comments put James in danger.

RIGHT-wing hatemongers just can't get over the fact that Mr. Obama (a class act) defeated you fair and square without stooping to your venomous level. If we are attacked, it's Bush who provoked it. As Hillary said, "Once again a Democrat has to clean up the mess left by a Bush. " Nathaniel Levett, Philadelphia

4X4 It seemed like a good bet: four short plays by four playwrights (heights unknown) performed in four spaces, each one measuring 4 feet x 4 feet. And once again, a good bet turns into a losing proposition. The audience is divided into four groups, seeing the shows in a different rotation, in different locastions, each group led by a guide. The fusty, musty building of Plays and Players Theater provides four uncomfortable venues: the basement, filled with all kinds of cables and miscellaneous backstage stuff; the attic, which doubles as a bar, the stairwell (we peer over the banister)

AS A LIFELONG Philadelphian and longtime Daily News reader, I respectfully request that you reconsider wasting your front page and newsprint on Jim McGreevey, Alycia Lane and other local and national nonentities. We essentially elect a new mayor in less than a week. Murder is on the rise. Casinos are a major issue. The future of the waterfront remains up in the air. We also have countless citizens working or volunteering to make Philly a better place, any one of whom is a better front-page subject.

MAYBE OP-ED writer Paul Waldman forgets that radio and TV networks choose and cancel shows by the audience they draw. Newspapers and major media networks, both TV and radio, should realize by now that the public is finally seeing that the one-sided liberal drivel they are being force-fed by the major news outlets is no more than left-wing propaganda. I am a registered Democrat (check it out) who will never again vote for any liberal Democrat because of the constant whining and negativity that has gone on since we lost the last two presidential elections.

RE: Flavia Colgan's Dec 9 column "Bring in the A-Team to Handle Iraq. " I would like to thank you for your refreshing words. In a newspaper that often presents far left, liberal views that lack any positive solutions, your piece, while still critical of the administrations handling of the Iraq war, exposes a truth the Bush administration tries to sugar-coat at every step and offers a solution. I consider myself a centrist at heart. I can find the good and the bad on both sides of the political coin.

IN response to Ron Eberly's letter "A bad choice, Jennifer" in the Daily News (Feb. 22): Hey, you punk bully. Why don't you try pushing someone around your own size, you coward? How dare you call this woman a "dopehead slut"! You don't even know her. You're a self- righteous hypocrite. Instead of ripping this woman, why don't you do something about all those unwanted babies from women who listened to your anti-abortion drivel - and try ADOPTION. That way you can prevent those unwanted, neglected children from growing up and impregnating your daughter!