As a life-long Packer fan, naturally I think this award to Favre is great. Whenever Favre is slagged by people--most likely a reaction, sort of a correction, to his benediction by the sports chattering classes-- I think of Randy Moss during his days as a Viking. Moss, the player who was roundly criticized for walking off the field with a minute to go in a game; Moss who was pilloried by Joe Buck (whom I loathe) for the pantomime gesture of mooning the Packer fans after a TD reception (fans thought it was hilarious). The same Randy Moss was caught on camera and audio, jumping up off the bench to get a side line view of Brett Favre in the waning minutes of a game, as he exclaimed: "Hey! That's Brett Favre! I gotta see Brett Favre!" To me, that speaks volumes about Favre's ability and the esteem in which he is held by his peers. Complain all you want but Favre is as worthy a recipient of a treacly award as anyone.

Remember Favre's commercial for Mastercard? Brilliant, perhaps the best in the series. It was the only commercial I would try and catch as opposed to leaving the room or changing the channel. And what about his cameo in "There's Something about Mary"? Chris Elliot: "What the hell is Brett Favre doing here?" Favre: "I'm in town to play the Dolphins you dumb ass."

I stopped reading CP's fatuous tween bullshit when she re-appeared on Salon months ago. I do read the letters, however. And according to established precedent, the right-wing trolls will start popping up within an hour or so and write such chestnuts as, "Camille is the most sensible liberal ever!" "Salon, Camille is the ONLY reason I read your site! Keep her on the payroll, Joan!" "Liberals further demonstrate their intolerance by hating on Camille!" etc etc etc.

And then the calls --which have already started-- will come in, pleading with Joan Walsh to stop giving Cammy a forum. Joan will ignore all of those pleas, continue to publish Cammy, and must just sit back and revel in the shit that unfolds, like clockwork, every time Cammy vomits out 1200 words on Madonna, Gore, Hillary and Harold Bloom.

I think the time has come to stop writing letters each time Cammie's columns appear. Walsh won't listen, Paglia keeps vomiting and we readers, like trained fucking seals, keep writing and no one listens or responds. The only way, it seems to me, is just completely ignore Paglia-- don't click on her column, don't write letters or read them. It will be tough but I don't know of any other way.

My earlier post called for a boycott of Cammy's columns and no more letters. Publishing Glenn Greenwald gives Salon a lot of latitude in my book but the Cammy Crap is too much. I also pointed out that the trolls would come out, and just like clock work, they're here. And all the trolls are spouting the same drivel-- that Cammy is the greatest thing since Ann 'Tranny' Coulter came home from her vacation -wink wink- in Sweden:

soundtripper-- first letter

italo-americano in ky-- first letter

mulanr-- first letter

DrBPrince--first letter

drdetekto-- 3 letters and counting, all on today's Cammy post

Her next column in Salon, I won't read nor will I read the letters. I won't give Joan Walsh the satisfaction. And Glenn Greenwald, if you end up some place other than Salon, I'd quit it all together. (Oh crap, and King Kaufman and 'War Room' but other than that, you suck!)

Exactly. Well said. Whenever NPR does a "political" story, I change the station. I have been unable to listen to anything they say on politics since the invasion of Iraq. It is clear to me NPR heeded Ari Fleischer's advice after 9/11: "be careful what you say". And that Cokie Roberts still has a job is just beyond any sentient being's comprehension.....

Are we safer now since W has been in office or are we not, which is what McConnell, Rockefeller et. al. are telling us?

Pay him for the pizza.

Just watch.

buy a fur-lined sink.

Thank you, Alex, for being the arbiter of good taste in the letters section. Perhaps one would have to go to Scalia or Thomas to find a more sober judge of what is proper.

I feel so much better, safer and secure knowing you are policing our behavior.

If that's gonna be cause for deletion/expulsion, you can have this prissy place. I'll take my observations elsewhere.

-- BobbyG

Stick it to the man, brother! I'm with you all the way! Delete this one too, Mr. K.

Because as Mr. Arbiter of "good taste" and decorum, that is your atavistic want.

Because I am going to "criticize" one of your favorite posters Notorious W.E.S., who has become the bebop-o of Hillary. (bebop-o is a poster on Greenwald's blog who has been advised to ratchet-down her/his posts from time-to-time.)

We get it, Not WES, Hillary good, Obama bad. There's just not much variation to your posts, one is enough.

Now Alex, delete this fucking message!

Check-out this clip from the Daily Show:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/28/the-daily-show-reports-_n_88866.html

Like Russert --that doughy pant load-- didn't go after Barry with his Farakahn non-sequiter.

On a somewhat tangential note. I was a subscriber to a huge wireless provider, perhaps 6 months into a two-year contract, when the news hit about how said huge wireless provider and others had dumped all their call records to the NSA without any warrants or other legal process. They just did it because the NSA asked them to. I called my wireless provider and canceled my contract. I explained that they violated the terms of the contract by providing my phone records without my permission or any legally binding request from the government. They canceled my contract without penalty. I subscribed to T-Mobile that same day as they were one of the few companies that refused to comply with the governments "request".