The Hall of Fame will never even approach legitimacy until they elect Roger Maris.

Roger Maris?

The guy with the .260 career batting average?

The guy with 275 home runs?

The guy with 851 RBI? Albert Pujols has more than that, and he's still only 27.

The guy who hit .217/.298/.368 in the postseason?

If you're opening a Hall of Not Bad, he's worthy of consideration, along with Eric Davis and Jay Buhner. But the Hall of Fame? Hardly.

By the way, I'd kick out these guys:

Robin Roberts 268-245 Mediocre, but he did it for a long time.

Don Drysdale 209-166 He's in because he was a teammate of Sandy Koufax. Drysdale averaged a 14-11 record over his career. Oooh. How intimidating!

Sandy Koufax - 165-87 Four incredible seasons, 2 pretty good seasons, and 6 horrible seasons. If we're kicking out 300 game winners, then Koufax gets kicked out for not sticking around long enough to prove the last four seasons weren't a fluke. The Hall isn't just about being good, or even great. It's about achieving a high level of performance over an entire career.

I'm a former Postal Service and UPS employee, and the amount of waste generated by Netflix is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else the USPS does day in and day out. It's the world's least efficient bureaucracy.

Given that everything other than first class mail can be legally delivered by private companies, I can't help but wonder why the federal government is still in the mail business at all.

The private carriers pay better, treat their people better, and are more efficient from pickup to delivery. Why is the government in competition with private companies?

...if you have unlimited system resources and don't mind the "are you sure you want to do this?" nag that comes every single time you try to do anything.

I've got Vista on a laptop that doesn't have drivers for anything else, but otherwise, I'm sticking with Windows 2000. It works just fine and has none of the Big Brother stuff that seems to occupy so much of Microsoft's time these days.

I still like Vista more than the Mac OS, though...

Its best feature -- the wireless Internet -- doesn't work as well as it should.

Gee, I would have thought that the iPhone's best feature is its ability to make telephone calls.

...but I can't find any similarities between the corruption going on in Iraq and Bill Clinton's marital infidelities.

Tens or hundreds of thousands dead; others homeless. Billions of dollars squandered, and the amazing amount of post-9/11 goodwill flushed down the toilet....

Versus...

A guy who cheated on his wife.

Sorry, but I just don't get the comparisons.

Just a few questions for Mitt:

1. Joseph Smith admitted to friends that he made it all up. How do you account for that?

2. Prior to publishing the Book of Mormon, Smith was convicted in court of falsely claiming that he could find buried treasure with the same sorts of stones he used to "translate" the Book of Mormon. Do you think it's likely that a criminal convicted of such fraud would be a prophet of God?

3. The first edition of the Book of Mormon credited Joseph Smith as the "author" of the book. That being the case, do you really think the Book is God's word?

4. Several of the witnesses who claim to have seen the gold plates later recanted and claimed that they had seen nothing. How do you reconcile this with the alleged "truth" of the Book of Mormon?

5. There is no archaeological evidence whatsoever supporting the Book of Mormon. How do you reconcile that with your faith?

6. Do you really believe that blacks who accept the tenets of the LDS church will become "white and delightsome" as pre-1982 editions of the Book of Mormon claim?

7. The evidence that Joseph Smith, and by extension, the Book of Mormon, is a fraud is overwhelming. Why should the American public elect a candidate who believes in a religion that is based on demonstrable fraud?

I'd welcome an answer to any of the above.

"In the future no one will play guitar

they will play guitar hero."

Perhaps in the future, no one will put bullets in the heads of other people. They'll just play Unreal Tournament or Halo.

It's a trade off I'm willing to make. And Guitar Hero is a gas to play, FWIW.

My personal favorite?

I EAT VEGANS.

Salon is a for-profit entity. How dare Farhad Manjoo even mention Harry Potter in an article? Doing so will only entice the public to read the subscriber-only site, allowing Salon to profit from the author's hard work.

JK Rowling worked for years to create the franchise and now Salon seeks to profit from it by mentioning Harry Potter in an article.

How dare they?

The only person who ever has the right to so much as mention Harry Potter in a way that might potentially generate revenue is Rowling herself.

No doubt lawsuits against major newspapers and magazines are coming soon.

These clowns don't realize that the problem isn't that it's too easy to get a divorce. The problem is that it's too easy to get married.

A few years back, Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra went out one night and got drunk...and woke up married. She sought a divorce just weeks later.

Is the problem really that it's too easy to get a divorce, or should we maybe consider that laws that let anyone get married on a whim might also be at fault?

Or are all marriages God-ordained and all divorces Satan's work? I'm sooo unclear on this...