I hope Mr. Bateman takes your advice, Mr. Ponytail1982 (yeah, it wasn't hard to figure out who you are). Indeed I do delete hate comments, and not only that - I BAN the person responsible so they can't come back. I do this because hate comments are aggravating. Pipistrello has a great system he uses, with the acronym RID, for "Read, Identify and Delete." But leaving all that aside, you're a dishonest motherfucker, Mr. Ponytail, because I HAVE left up comments that were critical but not hateful.

Last but not least, you're a complete, gibbering idiot. What I have posted thus far are not "videos" at all, but series of slates with text typed onto them. Why? Because the super-deluxe Dell Multimedia System I purchased in February turned out to be a lemon and I STILL haven't gotten a decent replacement. No computer means no real videos. So instead I throw a bunch of random crap up there that I "create" in Windows Movie Maker (which is a piece of shit, btw). I have received kudos for some of the stuff, gibes for most of it, and that's fine. None of it means much to me anyway.

In the future, Mr. Ponytail, when entering a battle of wits be sure that you are actually armed.

Because you might pass out. Do you know what's next on the Video Dog agenda? "Staff-generated content." Somehow, on the evidence at hand, I don't think "the staff" is capable of generating anything more amusing than cats attacking their own reflections in mirrors - and that might be a stretch.

But deletions or no, I and others will continue to savage the shit flung up here. It's just too much fun.

And to the person defending Joan Walsh: She's the Managing Editor, Editor-in-Chief, whatever. The buck stops with her; she's responsible. So calling for her head is entirely appropriate.

...EAT them.

This is CNN's chance to make the on-line video community look like a bunch of freaks...not that there aren't plenty of freaks on the internet, but that's not the sum of it. Not even close.

And kudos, FINALLY, to Salon for putting something up other than the shit we've had to endure for the past several weeks.

Who infamously (in my opinion, anyway) said on an early HBO special: "I love black people, but I hate niggers." Making the exact same "point" as your aborted friends. Well...?

Mr. Braindamage, please throw yourself under a bus at the earliest opportunity. Spare us all from your assholery.

...but this cartoon sucks cock as well.

You know, this is getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's anarchic fun for a bit, but then it gets boring. Here's to those Salon Staffers that Joan is going to serve up, like tender and succulant slices of pork roast, for my long knives!

People here keep referring to Hank Aaron's "title." It's not a title, it's a number: 756. When Aaron reached that number it meant that he had set a new record for home runs in a single season. It was inevitable that someone else would, eventually, come along and break that record. That person is going to be Barry Bonds. So old Hank isn't going to show up, huh? In my personal opinion he is using Bond's alleged steroid use and the outrage surrounding it as cover for his own bitterness over seeing a record he set - and probably thought we would never see broken - getting broken in his lifetime. He is a bitter old man, and while he may have held up admirably against the vile racism and threats in the 70s, lets not forget that Jackie Robinson turned into a bitter and angry old man because of his horrific experiences. This is not to blame either of them; they are human after all, and sometimes we expect too much of our heroes.

As to Bonds "cheating", which has not been proved despite years of random testing, I say "So what?" If steroids were a magic potion that turned average or even above-average ballplayers into super heroes then there would be at least a half-dozen other players chasing Aaron's record right now, and so it would indeed be meaningless. But there are not a half-dozen, there is one: Barry Bonds. Steroids did not improve Bonds's amazing hand-eye coordination; they did not improve his stance; they did not improve the accuracy of his swing; they did not improve his uncanny ability to gauge when and where a ball pitched to him at 100+ MPH would arrive at the plate. If Barry Bonds did take steroids, then all it did was improve his power. But power is NOTHING without all the rest. That means that when Barry Bonds breaks and then re-sets the home run record it will truly and rightfully be due to his natural skills, not to drugs.

And if you people can't get over that then it's YOUR problem, not Barry's.