I felt really bad for Lolo Jones. I've been watching hurdlers for 45 years; have been to the Drake Relays, the Penn Relays, etc., and I have never seen any hurdler, man or woman, who had better form going over the hurdles than LoLo.

Her lead legs skims the hurdle, and once her toe is over she postively flows over the hurdle, with a trailing leg so flexible she actually appears to accelerate over the hurdle.

She had been flawless in the qualifying heats, with each race running the same way: a bit behind at the start, and then with each hurdle her superior technique allowing her to pull away from the field.

One tiny mistake, and her hopes were shattered. I hope she takes heart from 41-year-old swimmer Dara Torres and 33-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina and comes back to the London games. She's the smoothest I've ever seen.

Lance Armstrong's total domination of the Tour de France, an event taking place over 22 days and involving hundreds of miles of climbing over mountains and careering down narrow mountain roads at speeds of 70+ mph makes Bolt's 10 or 20 seconds of speedy running a joke.

The guy runs fast. Guess what? All of his records will be broken . . . probably within 10 years. When Mr. X breaks his record, will that be the greatest individual athletic feat of our time? Not to mention Mr. 8-gold-medal Phelps.

Jebus Freaks, man, put your left hand in your right hand and get a friggin' grip.

It's a cold hard world. And he will not change his behavior until HE decides to do so . . . if he ever does.

In the meantime, protect yourself the best you can. If you don't have payable upon death mortgage insurance, get it. You'll own the house at least.

Hey, hey, Condi R.

How many died in your fuckin' war?

I like it, I think I like it.

How many homes must a candidate own

Before he’s a rich assclown?

Yes in how many tacky condos must he dwell

Before you can put him down?

Yes, 'n' how much Republican bullshit must fly

Before it’s forever banned?

The answer, my friends, is blowin' in the wind,

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Then, when the CIA or the NSA or whatever acronymed agency actually completes the hit on Obama (e.g., JFK, RFK, MLK), then the "authorities" can produce the crazed rambling diary (Kill the nigger! White Power!! Kill the nigger! Leonard Skynnard!!!) and point yet one more time to the crazed lone assassin.

I never woulda thought of rubber boots.

Jesus Christ Almight, we've got one war going in Afghanistan, another one simmering in Iraq, the neocons lined up rooting for tactical nuke strikes against Iran, warrantless wiretaps, torture, rendition and escalating financial catastrophes and the Republican assclowns want to bitch about architectural details.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"

Sen. Lyda Green, president of the state Senate and a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla

unless you think a "journalism" degree (broadcasting) from Idaho is an education, and unless you think advocating for creationism to be taught in science class is smart.

If we're going to do that, why not teach flat-earth in geography class, or the phlogiston theory in chemistry or luminiferous aether theory in physics or astronomy?

The scariest thing about her, besides the relentless Stepfordian perkiness is her colossal arrogance. She actually said today her political experience in Alaska has prepared her to be the Vice President of the United States of America. As if.

A gigantic egotist . . . and I'm smelling crash and burn.

now they've got it.

Misery for the American people at both ends of the Mississippi River.

Wasilla, we have a problem!

I haven't heard the part where Levi says HE wants to get married and change diapers and forget about college and get a job herding moose or whatever it is they do up there besides drink and snowboard and polay hockey.

They are offended because the pick insults their intelligence: McCain apparently thinks one woman = every woman, so the pick of anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-birth-control Palin makes sense to the senescent senior senator from Retirement City, and pisses off the hard-working women who were the core constituency of Hillary Clinton.

Nice job, Grampa Simpson.

I'd get my ass fired if I did such a piss poor job on an important decision. Grampa McSame was having a hissy fit because the Republicoids had turned down his main man and personal back scratcher Joe Lieberman, so he decided to give the Right what they wanted: a freaked-out-nutcase-loony-anti-abortion-anti-birthcontrol-anti-gay-pro-oil-born-again-creationist-trailerpark-beauty-queen-also-ran-moose-shootin'-snow-mobiling-book-banning-cop-firing-egocentric-maniac-she-woman!!!

I guess Pawlenty was just too vanilla and Mitt . . . well, Mitt's a Mormon, after all, and unlike Christians, who believe in the Easter Bunny, Mormons believe in the Easter Bunn in a pink tutu.

It's her brain McCain forgot to take a good look at.

Could someone please compare her crappy degree in broadcasting from Idaho with Obama'a Occidental/Columbia BA in poli-sci + international relations plus a JD with honors from Harvard Law and Law Review?

The only way Palin could get into Harvard would be if they needed to trap a raccoon in the attic of the Delta House.

In a few short years she ran Freezybuns, Alaska from fiscal solvency into $20,000,000.00 in debt! There's some executive experience. And she's already been caught in outright lies about the Bridge to Nowhere & Troopergate.

So mainstream media, show some guts and call this ignorant trailer park queen to her face: She's a liar.

The US Naval Academy ain't in the Ivy League. Never has been, never will be. The only reason McCain was able to squeeze into Annapolis was because his Dad and Grandpa were Admirals.

And he graduated 894 in a class of 899. So you can't even really say he was "educated" period.