It is an abomination that a piece of filth like Bonds could hold onto this record even if he gets 30 yrs.

As for the morons who try to diminish the import by asserting baseball is "just entertainment" tell that to the family of coach Mike Coolbaugh - who was killed after being hit with a foul bal.

Tell his family what he was partaking of was "just silly entertainment".,

my oh my oh my oh my. where to even start (assuming this isn't a troll).

if baseball isn't "just entertainment," then what is it? does it manufacture things? does it provide a necessary service? does it cure disease? does it resolve legal disputes? i'm curious what you think baseball, and every other professional sport, is? and along those lines, what is it about baseball and professional sports that make them so "important?" and i like sports ... i like them very much. but i don't think for an instant that they are anything more than a fun diversion from the "import" of life.

also, invoking the name of mike coolbaugh to refute the argument that baseball is just a form of entertainment is just as ridiculous as war hawks invoking the dead soldiers in iraq to refute the argument that the war was a bad idea. nobody is saying mike coolbaugh's death wasn't tragic. it most certainly was. but let's not pretend that he was doing something more important than coaching a team, the sole purpose of which is entertainment. why must people like you always try to make death more honorable than it is? all of us are going to die, and very few of us will die in the midst of doing something honorable. is that such a tough pill to swallow?

i think i heard mitt romney (who i thought came off as a disingenuous snake last night) say something to the effect of "we're one america. one country, united. there are not two americas." well if that's the case, i'm puzzled as to why the gop race is a contest to see which candidate is the most hardcore conservative?

i know all about playing to your audience, but these guys are frightening. has nobody told them that there is an entire half of the country that thinks their ideas are ludicrous? the last thing america wants or needs right now is 4 more years of the vicious red state/blue state divisiveness that is destroying us from the inside out. we have real issues on foreign policy, our economy, education, government power, violent crime, etc. - none of these things have anything to do with god or gays, yet those are the topics that keep coming up.

some of the democrats get this (like obama), but none of the republicans do, save perhaps ron paul.

and aside from the fact that nobody can substantiate whether the gay general was a hillary plant, what's the difference anyway? was it not a perfectly valid question? accusing the general of being a hillary plant is classic gop politics: when your viewpoints make you look stupid, ignorant, and bigoted, change the topic.

i'm still waiting for it, but the groundswell of enthusiasm for atheists, secularists, scientists, and humanists to emerge from their closets is an encouraging sign. sure, it has produced a temporary backlash from the fundamentalist religious right, which understands the threat all too well, and is digging their trenches for their version of this "war" on religion. what they don't seem to get is that, like the "war" between evolution and creationism, the two sides are not fighting the same fight.

reality will win. science will win. reason will win. it's already winning, and now just has to go for the kill. this is evidenced by the constant chipping away of religious dogma that can't pass the straight face test in light of our technological and scientific advances. every time science disproves a fundamental aspect of religion, religion backpedals and tries to find a way to shoehorn the latest discovery into their view of the world. but they're running out of dogma.

it's actually fairly comical watching the republican candidates shamelessly pander to this swath of the american public, which is not a very big swath (just a very vocal one). the idea that in 2007 there is a major, viable candidate who doesn't "believe" in evolution is pretty hilarious. i wonder if he "believes" in gravity? and now romney is trying to shamelessly pander to a group of narrow-minded paranoid bigots by equating his cultish beliefs with their different but equally cultish beliefs (just bigger). do the laughs ever stop? it's just so utterly ridiculous that a speech like this is even necessary in this day and age, that instead of getting steaming mad, i'm instead choosing to laugh it off.

the moment of Truth will arrive soon enough. we just have to avoid pissing off the other people of the world with other imaginary friends for long enough to avoid total nuclear destruction of our kind. no big deal.

Using religion as a campaign tool has always been a cute, rather harmless tactic employed sparingly by candidates to show the public that they're on the same wavelength.

Now we're officially in Crazyland, and I can't see the GOP turning back.

As someone who believes the existence of God is extremely extremely unlikely, I've gone from being mildly annoyed by the religious nutzos to genuinely frightened.

Are we really having these conversations in 2007? End times, Jesus' return, Lucifer and Jesus being brothers, and the like? What the hell is going on here?