Absolutely horrible, Mr. Kaufman. You ought to have your Sports Writers badge pulled for this article. Not only is your ill-founded critique factually baseless, your black-hearted cynicism makes one wonder why you even bother covering sport.

Now, I'm gonna do a little Arsenio Hall here and hit you with the digits, so brace yourself, fool.

2006 was perhaps the greatest college football season ever. Shall we begin with Boise St. vrs. Oklahoma? No no no. What a bore that was. And besides, much like boxing, the fix was clearly in there. Then there was Notre Dame's stunning fouth quarter comeback versus Michigan St. But we can't take that seriously because ND plays Navy, right? Florida v Auburn? Oregon St. v USC? Oh, what a terrible state this once great game finds itself in. Shame!

What you seem to say is that college football is jacked because of the big dogs not playing top tier teams every single game. In what other sport do the best compete with the best week in and week out? The Spurs play Bucks, the Yanks play the Royals. Tiger plays Mediate, etc etc etc.

There certaily are mis-matches every week, but the sport is far from being 'rife' with them. And were it not for the odd mis-match, we wouldn't have Appalachian St over Michigan. Without the 'little games' would there be any 'big' games? And conference play is extremely exciting (check Duke/Vandy 2006 here).

The only sensible thing you say is that the college football experience is unbeatable. And that's exactly what it's supposed to be--an experience--for the players, the fans, the boosters, everyone. The sport is not corrupt. The bowl system works for the fans. Just ask Wisconsin fans headed to Pasedena. It's only those whiners crying about HAVING to have a clear national champ that upset the party. And those chumps just don't get what college football is all about.

Watch any SEC game this season, then tell me again about the state of the game.

This proves how difficult comedy is to write.

Please write about sports - all of them. You're good at it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you opine that, "...congressional committee peopled by representatives busy pretending they know or care about baseball," and, "...Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., began the committee's latest steroids dog and pony show," you seem to dismiss the efforts by congress to investigate steroid use as insincere grandstanding. Furthermore, how the hell do you know they don't care about baseball?

Isn't the job of congress, as it relates to steroid use, to expose the problem? Would you rather they act like your beloved (no matter how droll) NFL and bury their collective heads in the sand and pretend the problem didn't exist? That would be irresponsible governance. And in condeming congress (if that's what you mean to do) you become part of the problem.

Personally, I hope the "dog and pony show" goes on for years, least my kid think about devastating his health through the poison of performance enhancing drugs.

"Does Congress need to hear testimony Roger Clements or Bud Selig to know that steroids are dangerous substances and should be outlawed?" The answer is no. But high-school kids watching ESPN that night do. And ESPN doesn't cover State's Attorney's.

Hasn't the author read Salon.com's trite little contrarian, Camille Paglia? According to her, and by extension, Salon.com, global warming doesn't exist. Shame on you.

I love how Paglia has such a keen, clear insight to this new website where intellectuals can get down to a "serious" debate on global warming. How lucky we are to witness such an inspired thinker like Paglia, now so obviously giddy about the "real debate" on global warming taking place at this, Paglia approved, hallowed website.

One would almost (foolishly, right Madam Paglia?) think there was a universal consensus within the scientific community, a consensus dating back decades, that global warming has and will continue to exist, and is indeed caused by human activity. God bless Paglia for bestowing her genius and clarifying the issue for us all...

In continuing to publish this trite intellectual sloth,Salon.com is complicit in perpetrating the lie that humans are not responsible for global warming. Shame on you. Fucking shame. Douchebags.

And I dropped Posada...

She's done. Finally.

How on earth am I supposed to rail against Salon.com for being complicit in spreading the lie that global warming doesn't exist (via Salon's dark axis with the right wing has-been hack Paglia) without the cover of "Anonymous?"

I mean, just this week I posted, anonymously of course, that Salon's hands were dripping in the blood of future generations for promoting such dubious, idiotic drivel. (The letter was promptly removed. A result, no doubt, of violating the letters' guidelines "vulger" clause. Or so one would assume)

But then on the other hand, I just might be considered cool to all my progressive friends that believe global warming to the greatest threat to mankind.

In other words, nobody cares. And get some mirrors to look into. You'll be amazed at what wasted potential looks like.

Sincerely,

an anonymous progressive liberal that wishes Salon were the same.

an anonymous