I tuned into MNF this week mostly to listen to Jaworski after you lauded his performance last week. Sadly I then had to sit through the entire second quarter where they barely talked about football and mostly yammered with Charles Barkley about anything else they could think of, even while plays were going on! If only they'd let me know in advance so I could mute the TV.

I believe red stars are assiged by one of the day-to-day editors (not the masthead editors) except when the columnist is conversing. King frequently assigns stars if he's replying to someone.

Anonymous 05:19 AM wins the early morning non-sequiter prize! For making no sense at all, you win a self-paid trip to Guam!

You're right that Damon Allen and Brett Favre are in similar situations, but you're wrong in one respect. When Favre retires, even if that's not for 6 more years, his coach will say "We're going to miss him. He's one of the all-time greats and has been the backbone of this team." not "We as an organization have been stunted because of him being our No. 1 quarterback (for so long)."

Favre will get "He's been amazing"

Allen gets "He's been amazing and that hurt us." Honestly, I can't believe a GM would say that about a QB that's been helping them win. As though he as the GM had no say in generally managing the team. He's basically calling himself incompetant and incapable of making player decisions.

He keeps equating History with after he's dead. It almost sounds like he's going to commit suicide when he's out of office.

I'm an independant. Don't make me want to stay home in 2008 from fear that voting from Democrats will remove accomodations for mothers in the workplace.

Looks like someone hasn't been paying attention. Workers right, including accomodations for mothers in the workplace, are what the Democrats are fighting for. The republicans are the ones that want you to stay at home or devote all your time to work. With misinformation like yours, no wonder Bush has had 2 terms.

Well if you think ideologies that can plausibly lead all the way down to the abattoir are the sole domain of organized religion, you're either retarded or a college student in poli-sci.

But to jump from this comic to your statement, you must be feeling incredibly defensive. Touched an all-too-true nerve there, didn't it? Have to point a finger somewhere to get the glare of truth off yourself? Saying "They did it too!" isn't the same as "We didn't do it." It is an admission of guilt with an attempt at lessening the perceived severity.

The comic was about how the Old Testement is much harsher than many Christians think and the willingness of people to try and explain it away.

Your jump to an indictment of Marx is almost as comical as the comic itself.

No wonder he's nuts!

If the Packers Defense is as good as it seems, the Pack might just pull out a win against SD. Especially if Farve gets Greg Jennings back this week. Or even if the O-Line continues to improve just a little.

I wasn't sure the Pack could pull it off, but they did. I was hoping Jennings would be back, he was, that the O-Line would play better, they did and that the D would stay strong. Had any of that not happened, I don't know if they could have pulled it off. If the Packers can figure out their running game even a little better, I think they have a good shot at the Superbowl.

They need to just wall them in the next time they announce a game. Seal off the booth and cut the power. They are a blight on the game. Hell, last time I played Madden Football I was only able to play it 'cause you could turn off the booth announcers and just have the stadium announcer. Michaels is a kiss-up to Madden, spouts right-wing crap that has nothing to do with the game and knows nothing about football. Madden is senile, insane and loves the sound of his own voice.

Remember Steve DeBerg?

But at least he then went on to have that hit song "High on Emotion" in the 80s!

Look, I think it's fine for you to salivate over the new season of the National Field Goal League

Sure, I mean why would you tune in to the culmination of the Watch Guys Stand Around For Awhile League? All you're going to miss is them scratching themselves since most players will be involved in what 1 play out of 20? You didn't need to watch most of the regular season anyway since there's so many games no single game really means anything.

Fortunately, they plaster the stadium with ads so people have something to look at when they're there. Shame their plan to put ads on the bases fell through.

A documentary series about the Soviet Union's contribution to the war would be great, but it doesn't belong in a documentary about America's contribution to the war.

To those saying the Soviets won the war, they wouldn't have without our help, nor would we without theirs. However, a documentary about a nation's experiences during the war needs no more than a cursory mention of this because it isn't what the story is about.

And remember, without the Soviet Union, Hiter wouldn't have had the successed he did early on. The Soviets were happy to share in the partition of Poland and shipped Germany plenty of supplies right up until Germany invaded them. Hell, it is often said they just turned the last convoy of supplies around and used it in the invasion.

And if Russia hadn't made peace with Japan after their early conflict the war would have looked much different. The point is they did make a peace there and had little interest in renewing hostilities until they thought they could profit from it.