...and I love Guitar Hero. That said, the game (and its imitators, such as Rock Band) gets less and less interesting with every new variation that comes out.

The original premise was to be a guitarist in a band that played cover songs. That was interesting. And difficult, as it happened.

Now they've added all kinds of instruments, original recordings, and motion capture of real musicians. You're not pretending to be a rock star anymore, you're just pushing buttons and watching Aerosmith, Metallica, the Beatles or whatever.

And with the additional instruments, they've made the game less difficult, lest someone fail a song and ruin the whole band's day.

While I've got every game in the Guitar Hero franchise, I still like the first one the best. Rock Band I can do without. It's simply too easy, and with the whole "pretend you're the Beatles!" thing, not interesting to me at all.

They've ruined the entire premise that brought me to the game in the first place.

War crimes are OK, but if you go beyond the war crimes we specifically authorized, then you're just a loose cannon who deserves to be prosecuted.

There's no room for free thinkers in Dick Cheney's posse.

What was his wife's involvement in this?

I can't speak for others, but if I asked my wife to participate in abducting a child for purposes of repeated rape and indefinite captivity, I have no doubt she'd call the cops right then and there, followed by calling a locksmith and a lawyer.

So what's the story on this guy's wife?

We started a war in Afghanistan for two reasons:

1. They were providing protection for Osama bin Laden

2. Al Qaeda training camps were located there.

Osama has left the building, and we "liberated" the training camps years ago.

Why are we still there?

I do have my home phone on the Federal Do Not Call list, but I take it one step further - I never, ever give my home phone number to anyone other than friends. And the number is unlisted.

I spend my evenings in blissful silence.

Just for today (maybe for the weekend), I'll extend Senators John McCain and Orrin Hatch the benefit of the doubt, and believe that maybe Kennedy would have found some way to forge a compromise health care reform bill.

There will be no compromise. I live in Utah, and while Hatch is busy saying nice things about Ted Kennedy today, our other Senator, Bob Bennett, had this to say in this morning's Salt Lake Tribune: "The #1 assignment in 2009 is to kill Obamacare."

Not, "The #1 assignment in 2009 is to come up with a health care solution." Not, "The #1 assignment in 2009 is to figure out a way to make sure that all Americans have health coverage." Not, "The #1 assignment in 2009 is to work with the other party to come up with a health care plan that works for everyone."

No. The objective is to kill Obama's health plan. Period.

Anyone who thinks that there is even a 1% chance of reaching an agreement with the Republicans on this is hallucinating. That group, unfortunately, seems to include both President Obama and Harry Reid.

The Republicans have been putting shills in these meetings to scream and babble; perhaps the Dems need to do the same thing.

They need to send people to these meetings to ask questions that are so preposterous that even Republican politicians will be forced to correct them.

"Is it true that Obama will force all unmarried pregnant women to have an abortion and then be sterilized?" would be a good start.

The crazier, the better.

We're ostensibly a nation of believers, yet we always assume that people who claim God speaks to them are nuts, even when these cases pop up in the Bible Belt.

I'm not suggesting that God does speak to this guy, as I do think he's nuts. I'm just wondering why no one believes him.

If you ask a group of people, "Do you think it's possible for God to speak to individuals?", a sizable percentage would probably say, "Yes."

But if you ask if they believe that God is speaking to a particular person currently in the news, they'll always say no.

Just an observation.

No one outside the media, DC, or Massachussets connects Uncle Teddy with anything but the Chappaquiddick shame, except maybe his rapist nephew, alcoholism, and obesity.

You are mistaken, and possibly not too well informed. There's nothing to add to that.

Always the troll, eh, Nathan?

It's not as though the Republicans aren't doing the same thing. Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that Kennedy wouldn't want health care reform, were he alive today.

Orrin Hatch said that there's no way that Kennedy would want to pass the Democrats' bill; he'd want to compromise away many of its provisions.

Look at the guy. He's the prototype of a zombie.

Those of you who champion Kennedy's demise because he didn't go to prison after the Chappaquiddick accident must be in pure agony over the fact that George W. Bush, the man responsible for the death of some half a million people, still walks the Earth a free man.

How painful your lives must be.

In order to maximize the rebate, you had to trade in for a car that got at least 10 miles per gallon better than the vehicle you were trading.

I offered a Plymouth minivan that got 18 miles per gallon, meaning that I had to buy a car that got at least 28 miles per gallon in combined city/highway driving to get the full $4500 rebate.

And who makes most of the cars that get that kind of mileage? The Japanese and Koreans.