I was listening to the ESPN radio broadcast last night and Joe Morgan -- my bete noir and the frequent target of my letters here -- made an intelligent comment about the unfairness of Jeff Weaver pitching without pinetar on his hands on a cold night while Kenny Rogers -- that cheating, camera guy-shoving, can't-handle-NY-media-pressure bastard -- did.

Of course, Joe did then repeat it three times and mangle the English language once or twice, but hey, a baby's got to crawl before he can walk. A not asinine comment, even with the affront to accepted grammar and rules of suntax, is a good start for Joe (AKA The Worst Broadcaster In the History of The Game).

I wasn't rooting one way or the other before that comment, but Joe made me think that Randy Johnson and the Yankees might not have lost Game 3 of the ALDS and the whole series could have gone a different way. Now, I hate the Tigers, cheating #*cks!

GO Cards!

the one where the dumb husband did that thing? And there was a misunderstanding? That one?

This is an unfair statement. Of course the setup for every episode of the sitcom is the same. That's the nature of the beast. You could just as easily dismiss every I Love Lucy episode as that one when Lucy did that thing and then tries to hide it from Ricky so he doesn't get mad? Or every episode of The Honeymooners as that one when Ralph does that dumb get rich quick scheme which doesn't work and Alice is really sarcastic?

This is akin to saying that all country music (or jazz, or hamster-slappin' punk rockabilly) sounds alike. Yes and no. It's a genre and there are certain conventions which limit it, but that's not a problem, it's what makes it a recognizable genre.

What we need to do is separate quality from crap.

I've never seen it, but I'll bet the War at Home is crap. I'll take your word for it, but not because the set-up is the same every week, so was the set-up for All in the Family, the greatest, non-animated sitcom in history.

In response the earlier misreading of the 22nd amendment...

It reads: " No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."

Sorry, Bill cannot run again.

It is not true that "Democrats will still not be in position to directly alter or seize control of military operations" if they controlled both houses of Congress.

They could simply pass a law which said that no money could be spent on US military operations in, say, Iraq except to pay for the withdrawal of US troops. If they could get the votes together to overcome the inevietable veto, it would become law.

I'm not suggesting that is a good idea, but it is certainly their perogative.

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Lieberman is free to have his opinions and the good people oof CT are free to vote for whomever they choose.

However, Lieberman wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to prove his independent bona fides by demonizing Democrats (ie, questioning their very patriotism and human decency, not just disagreeing with their points of view) but then retain his seniority if the Dems take control of the Senate.

Well, honestly, go do the anatomically impossible Mr Senator. Unless you want to ban fucking yourself as sodomy.

Lieberman has been a self-serving scold for years. his teaming up with Lynne Cheney to attack academics and pop culture should have been the first clue that he was not and is not 'liberal' in any sense of the word.

And please before you point out his voting record which votes for state intervention, state intervention does not equal progressive. Stalin and Hitler were equally for state intervention, yet no one would call both of them liberal. And, before you attempt to cut and paste and distort, I am not calling Lieberman Hitler or Stalin, I am pointing out that voting for big government is not the provence of either the left or the right.

Lieberman has consistently voted for a larger and more instrusive more paternalistic state whether it was in line with Republican or Democratic leaders. He is the worst of all worlds: economically Old Democrat, socially new fundamental Neocon Republican and generic, politicians of all stripes, in bed with powerful lobbyists (Big Pharma in Joe's case).

Lieberman was the beneficiary of Al Gore's monumentally wrong strategy of trying to distance himself from Clinton and he peter principled himself out.

Good Lord, if there was just a time machine and we could go back and get Al Gore to get on his knees to beg Sam Nunn or George Mitchell to be his running mate-- maybe we could avoid this whole bloody mess.