Many baseball fan, like King Kaufman, mistakenly believe that White Sox fans are jealous of the "mystique" surrounding teams such as the Cubs or Red Sox. This is plainly not so as any trip to Comiskey Park will reveal. White Sox fans have always wanted to win and never wanted mystique or nostalgia or curses, or George Will or Doris Kearns Goodwin waxing eloquent about them. We are more than anything NOT CUBS FANS or anything like them. We expect no one, including ourselves, to give our team any respect unless it wins. The White Sox deserve their decades of obscurity because they have lost. When they win the World Series, they will deserve respect and admiration because they won and only becasue they won.

I am opposed to the death penalty, but the publicity generated by the well-meaning but misguided activiststs in defense of Mr. Williams was appallingly stupid. By defending a remorseless, brutal murderer, who not only killed by his own hands but encouraged a culture of brutal killing that plagues Los Angeles to this day, the anti-death penalty advocates profiled in the article have done nothing but hurt their own cause. Our justice system is hopelesssly unjust and truly innocent people face execution everyday, but Mr. Williams is not one of these innocent victims of our unjust system. Each of those people has been marched one step closer to death by the foolish decision of these extremists to make an example of Mr. Williams. Mr. Farrell's admission that we all have blood on our hands is more true than I think he realizes. The death penalty is wrong in principle, but as a practical matter, if it is to be eliminated, battles must be much more carefully chosen.

Cary Tennis was far too poetic and kind in his advice. This guy is abusing you, and it is a serious danger sign. Why would anyone who loved you go out of his way to make you feel awful about things you cannot possibly change because they happened in the past? This is bullying, plain and simple, and it is motivated by hate -- not love. He may not hate you, he may hate himself, but either way it is hateful and destructive, not loving and constructive. It is one thing to gently criticize a new love on some aspect of her behavior or looks that can be improved. It is entirely another to harp on something that cannot be changed, especially when the crticisim is utterly hypocritical. If you had not shown some sense of guilt about your past, he would not have continued to bring it up. He brings it up because he knows it hurts you. This guy does not love you! He wants to posses you and control you, but that is not love. You have no future with him, unless you want to be abused emotionally for the rest of your life. He is a bottomless pit of destructive emotions, and you should get out now! It is possible to fall in love with such a person, but no matter how much you want it, they will never love you back, they will only need and take. You say this is your first time in love. There will be more and better in the future. The first time is usually a very painful mistake, but also a very valuable learning process.

Nerdnam is correct, the social changes that are often attributed to Boomers were the result of the liberal attitudes at the core of the so-called Greatest Generation. If you want to see what a generation accomplished, look at how they shaped the world when they were in power and could. This is when a generation is in its 50s and 60s and is in a position to make the decisions and set the policies of the nation and its institutions. Who let those kids protest in the 60s? There are always kids who want to protest for progressive causes but they are not always allowed to do so, and they are not always given any positive or even neutral attention for doing so. Do the Boomers now that they are in power encourage anyone to protest anything like that? NO! Take a look at Dick Cavet interviewing some of the Woodstock musicians the day after the festival on his show on national TV. He seems somewhat perplexed by them, but he is remarkably tolerant and indulgent. Do Boomers do that with regard to kids with crazy ideas now that they cotrol the airwaves? NO! They either ignore them or deride them. Boomer power has meant regression. The fact that a minority of the Boomers are liberal and thought they were part of a liberal vanguard that would change the world is only a delusion of the Boomer generation itself, and it only exitsed beause the Greatest Generation encouraged it and allowed it to flourish when they were in charge. While Dick Cavett and other older people were trying to understand the radical elements of the boomer generation in the late 60s, the Boomers' own silent majoirty was quietly seething for revenge. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Scooter Libby are the true representatives of what the Boomer Generation is when it attains power. It is the most regressive and conservative generation to have attained power in this nation since 1932. I can't wait 'til Boomer ascendancy comes to an end.