Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

The Cubs are only in fourth place in my Most-Hated-Team list, behind the Yankees, the Mets, and the Red Sox, so they aren't my most Most Hated Team. But I will do the Schadenfreude Dance when they get eliminated this year.

Part of that hatred comes from Harry Caray's mis-singing of Take Me Out To The Ballgame for years and years. Now, all over the country, people sing "Take me out to the crowd" instead of the correct lyrics, "Take me out with the crowd."

That blasphemy alone is worth undying hatred, much less the smug arrogance of the pervasive never-even-been-to-Chicago Cubs fans all over the country. Hey, if you grew up in a major league city that's not Chicago (or New York), don't be a fan of some team from Chicago (or New York)!

But yeah, any time a team from New York or Boston or Chicago or LA loses in sports, that is a great day for sports.

You are the third different person in Salon Letters to decide where my letters handle comes from. And you are the third person to be totally wrong.

Aren't you proud?

PS If some current or former Cubs player has the same last name as my letters handle, that just means he is trying to mooch off me.

Except, your list isn't comprehensive.

There are five places, eight historical figures, two fictional characters, and three others listed on the Wikipedia disambiguation page for "Farnsworth."

Of course, it is none of them.

It is someone you have almost certainly never heard of. But that's OK.

Baseball Tuesday!!

Hooray!!!

The fact that she is an utter bumbling naif with somewhere around zero qualifications is utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the election.

Her failures and shortcomings will draw many people towards the Republican ticket; especially when coupled with her End-Times Christofacist Zealotry and Good Ol' Boy Outdoors aura. I truly believe she is worth many more votes to the GOP than, say, Lieberman or Romney.

She has already won the debate with Biden. Already won it. She doesn't have to do anything but stand up without drooling, and she will be the winner in the eyes of anyone who has already irrevocably sided with Obama. And if she is only slightly less inept than she was with Couric, it will be a resounding victory, swaying many undecideds towards McCain. A review of the last half-dozen national elections makes that clear.

And it will be very very close in November. If the Republicans can steal another key state, like they did with Florida in '00 and Ohio in '04, she will be the President sometime in the next four years.

People like Readerreader with his faux reasonableness are going to steer the ship of state onto the rocks, and the Caribou Barbie is going to the first female president.

Woe to our country, and woe to the world.

Please reread my above post with the following correction:

...the winner in the eyes of anyone who has not already irrevocably sided with Obama...

You all are letting Readerreader totally yank your chain.

He comes across all reasonable, and then he talks about how competent and able and intelligent Sarah Palin is. That is just hilarious in its indefensibility. He ranks Palin ahead of Jack Kemp. Kind of like ranking a local high school baseball team ahead of the New York Yankees. Yup, ol' Reader is a credible poster.

I am currently studying broadcasting. And throughout the course of study, the only thing that is a constant is vocal coaching. Learning how to correctly speak and pronounce words. Palin has a degree in broadcasting, yet she is unable to correctly pronounce words. She can't even put a 'g' on the end of every word that ends in 'ing.' Even in the Couric interview there were multiple occasions of dropping the 'g' of the end of the word. That most definitely does NOT reflect well upon her intelligence or ability to learn.

And before someone brings it up, I don't care what part of the country she is from, or what dialect she grew up with. You don't get a degree in broadcasting without an extended course in proper speaking. This isn't a speech impediment, this is at best intellectual laziness. It's like being an engineer who can't do high school math. It speaks very poorly of Palin's ability to get up to speed on all the things she will need to know if McCain becomes incapacitated.

So, go ahead and engage Readerreader as if he were as rational as he is pretending to be. You are certain to fail, and I am certain to laugh.`

If [McCain] keeps [Palin], they'll lose big time because (I'm taking a gamble here), I think the American people are smarter than that.

This just isn't correct. And failing to understand that could result in another stolen election, and even President Palin.

McCain is better off with Palin on the ticket than with any alternative I have heard mentioned, male or female. She helps his chances.

Very few people are going to switch from McCain to Obama because of Palin. And a much larger number are going to choose McCain because of Palin. Do you really think that anyone who voted for Bush is going to vote against McCain because of Palin? Palin is exactly what they want!

She energizes the End Timers, the bigots, the creationists, the just-like-me lovers, all sorts of people who don't really understand what a presidential election should be about. Anyone who dismisses this is in for a rude awakening.

Democracy is broken in America. Mangled beyond recognition, maybe beyond repair. Don't count on the rationality of the electorate, because it isn't there.

For all of you who look at Palin's extremist views and verbal ineptitude and think she has no chance, look at who is in the White House now.