Dear Mika: I had so little time this past week that I was only able to catch parts of the shows.  But I was able to watch all of the interview with Tim Geithner, and I was happy to see he’s gotten a haircut.  When he has all those curls bunched up on top of his head, he looks like one of those marathon dancers back in the 1930s, which of course he isn’t (but maybe again he is).  At any rate, I couldn’t have had more than half a “Cup of Joe” with you and the guys because I was deluged with comments about my first letter to you.  It’s what one gets, I suppose, from being totally transparent.Most of the comments were very kind towards you, but not so good to Joe, who (whom?) they see as condescending towards you, if not because you are the house liberal, then because you are a woman.

I suppose this has to do with the narrative of the show, but it is certainly not appreciated by the people I heard from.  They think you should stand up more to Joe and interrupt him like when he interrupts you.  I explained that if you did that, MSNBC might send you home the way they sent home the producer of the Donny Deutsch special “America is Angry” (aren’t we all) after he allowed Deutsch to lump in Keith Olberman with Rush and Glenn as people who help create that anger.

And by the way, thank you for having Mr. Deutsch on your show just as your bosses were cancelling his show — I so appreciated his sincerity in what is an otherwise flippant business, and I was certainly pleased to learn that not all advertising executives are stereotypical cheap shot sleazes like the characters on “Mad Men.” (You can tell I’m an ad man, right?)

But back to the emails.  Most of the people who wrote had questions about you and the show, but some others had more profound thoughts.  I submit some of them here for your consideration (you can send me your answers, if you wish, and I’ll forward them to people).

Q.        (From a woman in Peoria) Is it true that Pat Buchanan is allowed to violate the show’s dress code and wear a tie because if he didn’t his head would fall off?

Q.        (From a male admirer in San Antonio) Why do you keep glancing into the camera to your right when other people are talking?  Are you looking at me?

Q.        (A schoolgirl in Chicago) Me and several of my classmates think the boss of Massey Energy should be locked up and charged with murder for killing those coal miner daddies.  What do you think?

Q.        (Anonymous in New Orleans) What do you think would happen if all the newspapers in America went totally online and tens of millions of trees were saved?  (Hint: it has to do with global warming.)

Cheers, and have a good week!